Monthly Archives: January 2005

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 5:12 pm on January 30, 2005  

2005 Go Live approaching!

Wow, talk about me falling behind…Microsoft ‘recently’ announced that Beta 2 of VS 2005 will ship around end of March, and at the same time receive Go Live! licensing.  Go Live! was introduced to assure developers that applications being built with a beta version of software would be production-ready.

In addition, the RC will ship around the September timeframe…for those who have been worried by ‘delays’, I would assume Microsoft is doing all it can to deliver this year, and I wouldn’t expect anymore delays.  They haven’t missed a ‘year-branded’ product release yet…

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 12:28 pm on January 9, 2005  

New Windows Mobile Software Released

Just got my official (public) notification today, had to pass it along!  .NET CF SP3 and ActiveSync 3.8 are now available.

The CF.NET SP3 release notes are found on its page.  ActiveSync’s, though, are not listed there.  I’ve heard the only real changes were:

  • Windows XP SP2 security pop up warnings that appear the
    first time a Windows Mobile devices is docked have been eliminated
  • Remote PC Sync (via Wifi or LAN) is turned off by default.
    However, users can turn this functionality back on.

So if that’s all, not that critical of an update unless affected by these issues.  Be sure to check any installed readme files, etc. for more info.

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 10:30 am on January 5, 2005  

App.Config for CF.NET

Once again, eggheadcafe comes through! They show how to add the capability of App.Config/AppSettings to your Compact Framework application. It’s very simple, really, and I’m surprised Microsoft didn’t include this by default. Apparently the AppSettings property has some other skeletons in it that prevented it being ported…

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 10:21 am on January 5, 2005  

Welcome to my nightmare!

Hello!!!  Where the heck have I been, you ask?  Well, I’ve been quite the busy little worker bee the past few months on my ‘new’ project.  It’s not left much time for website work, or blog posting, etc. 

But, luckily, work is finally letting up, so I’ve already moved my blog to a new piece of software (DasBlog).  The Tiki was a little too much to handle right now, and I’ll be removing it shortly, after I transfer the entries to this software.

One other thing, I haven’t enabled IP logging yet, so I’ve temporarily disabled commenting on the blog…sorry, it should be up soon!

But check out the new features, as I’m about ready to make my first post!