Sam Gentile and I wrote a piece on building WinForms apps in MC++ using the new designer support in VS.NET 2003. Unfortunately, it acquired some small errors along the publishing path, e.g. STA does not stand for "spanning three algorithm" in this case. However, the errors are minor and C++ programmers interested in the .NET forms engine should definately take a look.

I'm sure that this is all over the web by now, but I couldn't help but congratulate my new team on a wonderful revamp of their most important content into Developer Centers (DevCenters) for architecture, web services, VS, VB, VC++, C#, J#, .NET and Windows Server 2003. It looks great, guys. Congrats!

Mr. Codd was one of the great ones. His ideas will continue to affect us for the as far into the future as I can imagine. Thank you, Mr. Codd.

Brad Abrams make Jeffrey Richter and me stand in front our of “software legend” stand-up cut outs yesterday so that he could take a picture. I’ve already gotten crap from my new team at MS for being one of these guys. I assume it’s the shock and awe… : )

Brad Abrams
Tue 4/22/2003 10:09 PM

The New York Village Voice mentions sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview. Whoa.

From jt: "Borland is pleased to offer a preview of its premier enterprise solution for C# development on the Microsoft .NET Framework...."

Because I don't believe humans can know how to write XSD files from scratch *and* remember where their car keys are, I've been dying for an XSD inference tool that can take a bunch of XML files and produce a starting point XSD. Towards that end, I fed the 200+ XML files for Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar (dqsd.net) into the MS XSD Inference tool. The result was good enough to work with xsd.exe to generate C# classes and to impress Glenn Carr (Dave's XML guy). Highly recommended.

The one where my Dad answers the Microsoft manhole interview question and we judge just how far from the tree this acorn has fallen.