I'm the Program Manager who owns Accessibility for Visual Studio. I recognize that we need to improve the quality of our documentation on making accessible Windows apps (I just had a conversation with my counterpart on Windows Forms about this yesterday, in fact). Please let me know which specific pieces of information you would like to see better documented. Feel free to log a bug on this at the MSDN Product Feedback Center (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback) or send me an email at abreth at microsoft dot com. thanks!
Kahuna, the next version of Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) should make you pretty happy. It's much-improved over the current version. See the team's blog for more: http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/
Short answer: it depends. Our Group Product Manager, Prashant, has some comments on this on a weblog: The bottom line is that pricing is VERY much tied to your individual circumstances. We're much more transparent than other tools vendors, but at the end of the day, the volume in which you do or do not buy, the fact that you may or may not be an ISV, the fact that you may or may not be a SI/consultant/partner, or any number of other circumstances can substantially alter how much you pay for the SKUs. Only a very, very small number of people pay our full retail price for the high end product.
Thanks for the specifics. If you would like you can open up feature requests on the MSDN Product Feedback Center for us to remedy some of the outstanding issues that remain in VS 2005. It's located at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/.
huh? you can build open source software with Visual Studio if you want. No one's stopping you from doing that. The issue at hand is that a lot of people ask "can I use the Express SKUs to build software for sale?" I'm not trying to spin anything.
One thing that's worth pointing out here is that you can use the Express Editions of Visual Studio to build commericial or shareware products. I've been asked this several times now, and I don't think we make it clear enough anywhere.
Apple is always on the edge. If they are first to market, a lukewarm response as the front runner is just as good as a strong success in a large field of competitors. Now the competitors have to play catchup while Apple surges forward with new ideas.
They weren't first to market. That said, the 5G iPod appears to be far less bulky than some of the PMCs, but the Samsung Yepp is a pretty sweet little device. The PMCs have larger screens than the iPod (3.5" vs. 2.5") but still are only doing 320x240.
OK:). Seattle's not a bad place (this morning's overcast skies notwithstanding), however there is also development work done in Denmark, which wouldn't be quite the same move as relocating to Seattle. Take care!
oh, so what I meant there specifically was that the warning message described (My phone just says that the program is not from a trusted source and do I want to install anyway?) sounds almost exactly like the warning shown on a Windows Mobile device, hence the way I phrased my reply. I'd assume that most phones' software installers understand code signing; they just phrase the message in different ways.
It depends on what you have. From what you say above, it sounds like you have a device running Windows Mobile. The code signing feature is fantastic inasmuch as it lets *you* decide whether or not you trust an app, and how much you want to trust it, essentially. I have an Audiovox SMT 5600 (aka HTC Typhoon) which exhibits the same behavior. Heck, I can even write apps for it in Visual Studio 2005 and dump them onto the phone. No fuss, no muss. My old Sidekick (well, actually the fourth Sidekick I had; I got unlucky in terms of catastrophic hardware failures) would only run extra apps that were on Danger and T-Mobile's pre-approved list. Not my idea of fun.
That's not quite true. The alternate reality gaming company that put together a site for A.I. did the same for Halo 2 with I Love Bees. Microsoft was not involved with A.I. at all.
Sure, but you did get a cool little monorail picture on your tab:P. I am *so* happy to hear that this thing may finally be dead. Considering the dire need for an expansion for 520 (exhibit 'A:' traffic conditions on 520 yesterday due to the Huskies game, exhibit 'B:' normal traffic Monday thru Friday), road improvements thoughout Capitol Hill, the disaster that is the state of 40th Street through Wallingford, the Alaskan Way Viaduct::cough::, and everything else happening it makes me nuts that we were going to spend this much money to build the Green Line. What a joke.
I can forward on your feedback to Marie, the program manager in charge of our product feedback center. I wish I had your email address, because I'd loop you in to the discussion. If you want to contact me off slashdot, my email address is com [dot] microsoft [at] abreth (and reverse everything). thx!
XAML is compiled into BAML, so this sort of scenario should never bite deployment scenarios. Rob Relyea, a Program Manager on Avalon (oops, WPF) has much more on his blog.
sweet, thanks for the compliments:) Please remember that any feedback (negative or positive) can be submitted to our Product Feedback Center at lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback.
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Actually, you'd be surprised:) Like you mentioned,.NET FX 2.0 has menu and tool bar controls that look like VS 2005 and Office 2003's. If you download one of the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 from our MSDN Labs you can play around with the new Winstrip controls that the Windows Forms team built for.NET FX 2.0 (see MenuStrip, ToolStrip, and StatusStrip). Additionally, we took a huge amount of artwork and placed it into a reusable collection. It's not in the Express versions, but if you have Standard or above take a look at c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\common7\vs2005imagelibrary.
The manifest file is by design, and not a bug. The issue there is that binding your UI to ComCtl v6 can potentially introduce bugs into your application. As a result, we give full control of this process to the application author (or you, if you feel inclined to drop an xml file alongside all of the exes on your system).
I spent a lot of time during the Whidbey product cycle (Visual Studio 2005 and.NET FX 2.0) making sure that everything in VS looks and acts great under Windows XP.
Besides, you could replace "Microsoft" with "Apple" up there and you'd end up in the same position. Look at Apple's Pro Frameworks, the UI in Garageband, the new UI in iTunes 5.0, and so forth.
Half-Life 2 gave me more of what I loved about the original: reasonable storyline (for an FPS), quirky and interesting characters, and terrific AI. I found the ending dissatisfying, but I'm hoping HL2: Aftermath will help correct that for me.
I tried to play Deus Ex, but when it came out my computer was fast enough to give it about 15 FPS at best. I picked up Invisible War when it came out for Xbox, got bored, dumped it. I keep thinking about digging up a copy of the original but I only have so much time, and Indigo Prophecy comes out this month anyway;-)
Well, it's been out since November 2004 now, so probably not. And, honestly, I though that HL2 rocked. In fact, I've played through Half-Life 2 twice and Halo 2 only once (in contrast, though, I've probably played through Half-Life four times and Halo at least as many times, so take from that what you will).
Although, it's entertaining that you'd mention Black and White considering that B&W 2 is supposed to be out anytime now and I have barely heard a peep out of Peter Molyneaux or most online pubs (at least compared to last time).
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I'm the Program Manager who owns Accessibility for Visual Studio. I recognize that we need to improve the quality of our documentation on making accessible Windows apps (I just had a conversation with my counterpart on Windows Forms about this yesterday, in fact). Please let me know which specific pieces of information you would like to see better documented. Feel free to log a bug on this at the MSDN Product Feedback Center (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback) or send me an email at abreth at microsoft dot com. thanks!
Kahuna, the next version of Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) should make you pretty happy. It's much-improved over the current version. See the team's blog for more: http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/
Short answer: it depends. Our Group Product Manager, Prashant, has some comments on this on a weblog: The bottom line is that pricing is VERY much tied to your individual circumstances. We're much more transparent than other tools vendors, but at the end of the day, the volume in which you do or do not buy, the fact that you may or may not be an ISV, the fact that you may or may not be a SI/consultant/partner, or any number of other circumstances can substantially alter how much you pay for the SKUs. Only a very, very small number of people pay our full retail price for the high end product.
Since the Express SKUs are positioned towards hobbyists and students, this is potentially unclear. See elsewhere in this thread, for instance.
Thanks for the specifics. If you would like you can open up feature requests on the MSDN Product Feedback Center for us to remedy some of the outstanding issues that remain in VS 2005. It's located at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/.
huh? you can build open source software with Visual Studio if you want. No one's stopping you from doing that. The issue at hand is that a lot of people ask "can I use the Express SKUs to build software for sale?" I'm not trying to spin anything.
Can you explain why you think Visual Studio 2003 sucks? I've never used IDEA before, so I have no basis for comparison.
One thing that's worth pointing out here is that you can use the Express Editions of Visual Studio to build commericial or shareware products. I've been asked this several times now, and I don't think we make it clear enough anywhere.
They weren't first to market. That said, the 5G iPod appears to be far less bulky than some of the PMCs, but the Samsung Yepp is a pretty sweet little device. The PMCs have larger screens than the iPod (3.5" vs. 2.5") but still are only doing 320x240.
OK :). Seattle's not a bad place (this morning's overcast skies notwithstanding), however there is also development work done in Denmark, which wouldn't be quite the same move as relocating to Seattle. Take care!
Your country of residence shouldn't present a problem. Where do you live right now?
oh, so what I meant there specifically was that the warning message described (My phone just says that the program is not from a trusted source and do I want to install anyway?) sounds almost exactly like the warning shown on a Windows Mobile device, hence the way I phrased my reply. I'd assume that most phones' software installers understand code signing; they just phrase the message in different ways.
No worries. nice UID, btw :)
It depends on what you have. From what you say above, it sounds like you have a device running Windows Mobile. The code signing feature is fantastic inasmuch as it lets *you* decide whether or not you trust an app, and how much you want to trust it, essentially. I have an Audiovox SMT 5600 (aka HTC Typhoon) which exhibits the same behavior. Heck, I can even write apps for it in Visual Studio 2005 and dump them onto the phone. No fuss, no muss. My old Sidekick (well, actually the fourth Sidekick I had; I got unlucky in terms of catastrophic hardware failures) would only run extra apps that were on Danger and T-Mobile's pre-approved list. Not my idea of fun.
That's not quite true. The alternate reality gaming company that put together a site for A.I. did the same for Halo 2 with I Love Bees. Microsoft was not involved with A.I. at all.
Sure, but you did get a cool little monorail picture on your tab :P. I am *so* happy to hear that this thing may finally be dead. Considering the dire need for an expansion for 520 (exhibit 'A:' traffic conditions on 520 yesterday due to the Huskies game, exhibit 'B:' normal traffic Monday thru Friday), road improvements thoughout Capitol Hill, the disaster that is the state of 40th Street through Wallingford, the Alaskan Way Viaduct ::cough::, and everything else happening it makes me nuts that we were going to spend this much money to build the Green Line. What a joke.
The lowest uid in use? Taco's would be: #1.
duly noted, I've forwarded your feedback on to her. thx again.
I can forward on your feedback to Marie, the program manager in charge of our product feedback center. I wish I had your email address, because I'd loop you in to the discussion. If you want to contact me off slashdot, my email address is com [dot] microsoft [at] abreth (and reverse everything). thx!
XAML is compiled into BAML, so this sort of scenario should never bite deployment scenarios. Rob Relyea, a Program Manager on Avalon (oops, WPF) has much more on his blog.
sweet, thanks for the compliments :) Please remember that any feedback (negative or positive) can be submitted to our Product Feedback Center at lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback.
Actually, you'd be surprised :) Like you mentioned, .NET FX 2.0 has menu and tool bar controls that look like VS 2005 and Office 2003's. If you download one of the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 from our MSDN Labs you can play around with the new Winstrip controls that the Windows Forms team built for .NET FX 2.0 (see MenuStrip, ToolStrip, and StatusStrip). Additionally, we took a huge amount of artwork and placed it into a reusable collection. It's not in the Express versions, but if you have Standard or above take a look at c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\common7\vs2005imagelibrary.
I spent a lot of time during the Whidbey product cycle (Visual Studio 2005 and .NET FX 2.0) making sure that everything in VS looks and acts great under Windows XP.
Besides, you could replace "Microsoft" with "Apple" up there and you'd end up in the same position. Look at Apple's Pro Frameworks, the UI in Garageband, the new UI in iTunes 5.0, and so forth.
I tried to play Deus Ex, but when it came out my computer was fast enough to give it about 15 FPS at best. I picked up Invisible War when it came out for Xbox, got bored, dumped it. I keep thinking about digging up a copy of the original but I only have so much time, and Indigo Prophecy comes out this month anyway ;-)
Although, it's entertaining that you'd mention Black and White considering that B&W 2 is supposed to be out anytime now and I have barely heard a peep out of Peter Molyneaux or most online pubs (at least compared to last time).