Office Zealot

First discussions are starting to hit the world about the just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 Beta. What happened is that instead of just fixing things in the Service Pack, Microsoft decided to add a whole lot of new features and whistle and bells into these SPs. So what happens if you develop applications and start ...

Microsoft created a new student initiative called DreamSpark where students are able to download Microsoft developer and design tools at no charge. In order to get the software the student is asked to establish or verify the student status every 12 months. Some of the software packaged available for download will be: Visual Studio 2008 ...

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The new Office Zealot site will have a Silverlight Viewer application which will render the site content into Silverlight content, allowing the user to experience the site in a better way. As you might know, Silverlight is still in beta version and still has lots of improvements to go through but it has been a great experience to build this ...

  A glance at the weekend's headlines revealed three stories dominating world attention, not necessarily in this order: The Superbowl The US Presidential Primary Campaigns Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo!And one thing was made perfectly clear: We are neither in Kansas, nor in pappy's Office anymore.  1.*A warm welcome to ...

First let me wish everybody who reads this a happy New Year. 2008 will be another year where technology will be more complex and to be an expert in your area you have to keep up with the technologies even faster than last year. With the New Year for me there was also the MVP renewal letter inform me that I was re-awarded as Most Valuable ...

  As I announced in my previous blog item Microsoft released the Office 2007 Service Packs (Both for client and server software) December 11 2007. If you go to the Microsoft Download site you can find all installers ...

The deployment machine at Microsoft is working full throttle. We already received the RTM version for Visual Studio 2008, Service Packs for the .NET frameworks and now Microsoft announced to have planned to deploy the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) next week on December 11th 2007. The service packs will be available for both the client as the ...

Silverlight 1.1 is no more ... Microsoft decided when looking at the new Silverlight software that a minor version upgrade would not show the value of the product. So, from now on the next version of Silverlight will be referred to as being Silverlight 2.0. No more minor improvements, Silverlight 2.0 will show big changes compared to ...

Update to my previous blog ... The information discussed yesterday is now also available on the MSDN website:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx There is an introduction video on Channel 9 with Soma and Scott explaining what Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is all about compared to Beta 1. For one thing... Visual ...