Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta
As Quan To and other members of Visual Studio Ecosystem team have written, today Microsoft shipped the Beta version of Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1.
You would know that Microsoft shipped the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 right after the official release of Visual Studio 2008 with some new features and enhancements for Visual Studio 2008 that primary targeted new Visual Studio Shell technology.
It's regular for Microsoft to ship multiple versions of Visual Studio SDK for a Visual Studio version so the progress for the next version just started after the release of version 1.0. Now after the official announcement of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, they ship the first Beta of version 1.1.
Continue Reading : No Comments : 05.20.08
RFC2396 URL 1.0 Released
Back in July 2007 and as a requirement for my implementation of Google Safe Browsing API in Subkismet, I started a separate open source CodePlex project for RFC2396 URLs. In August 2007 I released a Beta of this library and used its code in Subkismet 1.0.
However, there were a few minor issues in my Google Safe Browsing implementation in Subkismet. Phil and I had some plans to apply major changes in the project as well but our busy schedule hasn't let us to do that yet.
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 05.16.08
Bad Code is Bad Even for the Best Developers
Several times in the past year I've written about the good and bad stuff at my military service and stated that one of the good stuff is the fact that I could experience some real world experiments about software development failures and bad practices that I never could experience in the outside.
One of these recent experiments, that is actually just a wrap up of what I've seen in the past year, is about the ugly code that developers write.
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 05.15.08
How to Write a Spam Rule for Community Server 2008
Back in 2006 and when I was writing my CS Dev Guide post series, I wrote a part about writing spam rules for Community Server.
Speaking of Waegis and my recent wrestling with spam rule integrations for Community Server 2007.1 and 2008, I thought it's worthwhile to revisit that post and talk about some changes in a new post.
Since Community Server 2007.1 Telligent applied Dynamic Configuration to spam rules and replaced the traditional configuration. Last week I introduced Dynamic Configurations and here is a good example of them to get in more details about this component in an upcoming post.
Continue Reading : No Comments : 05.13.08
Introducing Waegis
This would be one of the announcements that I make public on a regular basis and every a few months!
During the past three months, I've been working on a big project and an enterprise platform/solution that I'm going to introduce now. More than all its side-effects I enjoyed the development process from the early stages to the current point and would love the rest as well.
Although I started the development in the recent three months but the idea and the mind work were with me for almost three years from the university days and I thought much about it in this while.
Continue Reading : 12 Comments : 05.12.08
Barclays Premier League Champion
Regular subscribers may already know that I'm a Manchester United soccer team fan.
Those who follow soccer news, would know that today Red Devils won their last match in Barclays Premier League 2007/08 (with Wigan) and got champion for the second consecutive year.
This season was Manchester's season. I think that there is no doubt that the Reds passed a great season and simply can be considered as the best soccer club in the world this year.
Continue Reading : 9 Comments : 05.11.08
Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET
There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for other sites as well.
During the time, MetaWeblog API is extended by some famous blogging engines and services like Blogger and WordPress to add some common features to it but the core features are what many users are looking for.
There are several plus points for MetaWeblog API that has made it a great choice for online publishing including the ease of editing, capability of having a local copy and many other features. Some great tools like Windows Live Writer or BlogJet are working based on these APIs.
Continue Reading : 6 Comments : 05.10.08
.NET and Web 3.0
One of the annoying things about .NET is its position on modern web. There have been lots of write-ups about this to see why .NET has not been able to find a good position among web 2.0 sites.
Taking a look at statistics and the list of top 100 sites of the internet, we simply believe that PHP and Ruby on Rails have a much better position than .NET (and ASP.NET).
Continue Reading : 11 Comments : 05.08.08
First Reviews of Professional Visual Studio Extensibility
It's less than two months of the release of my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book.
Now after this while, I expect to see some reviews about it as two months is a good time to read the entire book and provide feedback.
In the past couple of weeks I received two reviews about the book by Alvin Aschraft and on Amazon.
Continue Reading : No Comments : 05.04.08
Refactor Code Launched
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, active member of ASP Alliance and owner and founder of GridViewGuy, Mohammad Azam, announced his new site on his blog today.
Refactor Code is a new simple site that targets developers audience to help them refactor their code or find the refactored code for common scenarios.
Continue Reading : 12 Comments : 05.04.08