Friday, October 04, 2002

Just got this from .NET User Group of Greater Boston: Mark Anders, Product Unit Manager for the .NET Frameworks Team (responsible for ASP+, WinForms, and Base Class Libraries) will be interviewd tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 10/5/2002) on .NET Rocks http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp. If you want to ask a question please email dotnetrocks@franklins.net with your question and a phone number where you can be reached tomorrow. No cell phones No portable (cordless) phones 3:25:27 PM

Remember those Office PIAs I talked about and how important it was that Microsoft start creating vital PIAs for Interop? Of course you do, I'm sure-). Well, now they have actually released a Primer on how to use them. 2:44:35 PM

Matt Griffith: "That is the lamest argument I've heard. And I hear it all the time. Does anyone really believe that Microsoft is going to decide that .NET is a bad idea and go back to preaching the gospel of COM? " 1:49:36 PM

In my desire to find other VSIP partners or users, I was drawn to AppsChannel, Inc, which is a VSIP Partner using VSIP to develop tools that improve developer productivity. I was initially drawn because of the Press Release today for Visual Workbench for Visual Studio .NET. According to the release, "Created by using Microsoft .NET technology and targeted from inception to the developer using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Visual Workbench uses a flow-chart metaphor to conceptualize and render a programming solution in one step. The resultant logic flow map is stored as XML and can be repeatedly used to generate in-context source code directly to the code editor window."  Interesting. They also have some other cool tools like DevBrowser, and CodeDrop.  Update: Hmm, one thing, they seem to have forgotten is to use VSIP to get on the VS.NET splash screen and in the About Box. 1:40:12 PM