Alpha. Whidbey. Help! Help!
“Package load failure”. Package ‘VSCorePackage’ has failed to load properly ( GUID={7494682B-37A0-11D2-A273-00C04F8EF4FF} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance.
Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted, problem sticks. :-(
Update: Apparently this error isn't really a sign of complete failure of the development environment, but rather a result of project...
Reporting Longhorn / Whidbey bugs useful?
Because most teams at Microsoft seem already a milestone or two ahead of what the Longhorn and Whidbey PDC builds reflect, how much is it worth to report bugs?
Hello? Redmond? Comments?
Listen to Joe Long!
Joe Long, the Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at Microsoft, talks about the Indigo migration story in this recorded presentation on MSDN. If you weren't at Joe's PDC talk and think you don't have 37 minutes time for this, you can still not afford to miss listening to the prescriptive guidance section starting at slide 60, if you ever have or will cross an application domain boundary with a Remoting, Enterprise Services or Web service call on the...
XBox on PowerPC? (Ummm… why not?)
This article here hints at XBox Next running on PowerPC. Of course, the kids over at Slashdot call such a potential move bad names, but that's of course, because they weren't grown up enough when PowerPC was indeed a hot topic for Microsoft and Windows NT. In fact, I may still have a vintage Windows NT/PPC CD somewhere around here.
- Reminder #1: the NT kernel runs on Itanium, AMD64 and x86 and if Microsoft...
Lightweight Transactions - A puzzle (I mean, really..)
Between PDC and now, I was in Redmond on Monday and Tuesday at a meeting with the Indigo team. One of the topics discussed were the new transaction management capabilities that are part of Indigo (which, for Longhorn, includes a lightweight transaction manager).
Ingo was there, too, and we had a little argument about how hard it is to write transaction resource managers....