Mark, I care deeply about the hobbyist who writes some code on the side, the programmer who works from 9-5 and has a life and just as deeply about those who work 24/7 and about everybody in between ;-)
That said: now that we're getting close to being done with the "this vs. that" debate, we can most certainly figure out the "how can we optimize the programming experience" story. For very many people I've talked...
One of the things I've learned quickly on our team is that the customer is everything. That's not a marketing phrase but the literal truth. Up until January 31st I had great personal powers to cause 11th hour changes in WCF and since the day I joined up that power is gradually diminishing. That's not only because we're edging closer to RTM, but also because it's more difficult to fill in the "business justification" column for...
Inside the big house....
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Alien Abductions coming to MSDN. I have set up a cross-posting blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/clemensv and this post is for testing whether that works -- Cheers, Clemens
Below are the newtellivision bits for the February CTP that I am showing today at the MIX'06 conference.
This also contains the newest revision of the (BSD licensed) REST/POX Service Model extensions, which can used standalone.
Mind that the Windows Media Player experience has been thrown off its feet by an unintended side-effect of the recent KB911565 Windows Media Player security hotfix. So if you are running the WMP experience and you cannot click anything, temporarily uninstalling...