Robert Green's Visual Basic BlogVB Rocks!VB Suggestions Update Sept 16- September 16, 2004 As of this afternoon the VB team has 232 suggestions entered through the MSDN Product Feedback Center. This is up from 186 the last time I reported, which was August 25. Over the past two weeks we have made a serious effort to reduce our backlog on these and have now resolved 166 of the suggestions, up from 104. By the end of next week we hope to have the backlog mostly eliminated and moving forward we hope to respond to suggestions within a week of receiving them. Status Total Not...http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/16/230637.aspx Watch VSLive Keynotes- September 14, 2004 The videos of the VSLive Keynotes are on the Fawcette web site. Soma announced VS 2005 Standard in his keynote and has the latest dev tools roadmap. There is also a seperate link to the reg-free COM demo in his keynote. Reg-free COM is coming in Whidbey and is an important piece of ClickOnce. This lets you install (on a Windows XP machine) any COM components in your application without having to write to the Registry. Dave Templin of the VB team is working on an article explaining this in.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/14/229508.aspx Visual Studio Standard announced- September 14, 2004 Jay Roxe explains VS Standard in eWeek"With Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition we've recognized there is no one right tool for all developers and we've tried to target the line at the different types of developers," said Jay Roxe, product manager for Visual Basic, in an interview with eWEEK. "With Standard Edition we're targeting individuals who develop professional commercial quality applications but who develop on their own. The announcement of Standard Edition completes the picture for the..http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/14/229446.aspx I ran a half marathon yesterday- September 8, 2004 Dim whatAboutMe as ShamelessSelfPromotion = True Yesterday I ran the Super Jock 'n Jill Half Marathon. 13.1 miles in 1:43:20, or a pace of 7:53 per mile. I was shooting for a 1:45:00 (8:00 per mile) and I beat that, in spite of it being quite sunny and warm (nice day yes, but warmer weather drains you faster as a runner) and in spite of undertraining the past 10 days due to a sore Achilles tendon. I finished 331 out of 1193 total runners. Today I have stiff quads and calves, but all in all.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/07/226562.aspx VB used in Ferrari's F1 efforts- September 3, 2004 Control software for the car is C and assembler. Analysis and simulation is mainly done with Matlab. Other projects are written in object-oriented languages (C++, Delphi and Visual Basic, depending on preference). This is from a very interesting article on CNET where Dieter Gundel, head of racetrack electronics at Ferrari, talks about Ferrari's use of software in Formula One.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/03/225503.aspx Interview with Soma- September 3, 2004 Visual Studio magazine has an interview with S. Somasegar, aka "Soma", the corporate VP of the Developer Division. Soma will be keynoting at VSLive! in Orlando the week after next.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/09/03/225501.aspx |