May 2008 Entries
Two product efforts at Microsoft have spun up this year and both are new implementations of very old ideas:
ASP.NET MVC Framework - Microsoft's upcoming implementation of a Model View Controller architecture for their web application platform. MVC has been around for a long time on other development platforms, but only recently has there been a push in the .NET community demanding for this.
ADO.NET Entity Framework - Microsoft's next rev of data access technology (ADO.NET) contains a lot of new ways to...
Ya know the class Windows XP open file dialog? This thing... That left hand nav bar looks so interesting, but it's not. Well, it might be interesting for people who frequently open files from the Desktop without double-clicking them from there. I rarely, if ever, do that. However, I would love to be able to create my own entries in that left hand nav area. There's a short list of about 5 locations that I FREQUENTLY open files from that need to be located deep in some folder structure of my own creation. I wrote about TeraCopy and...
I love utility software. I love software vendors like Moon Software, that produce targeted utility software like Password Agent and Backup Magic. I was reading Jon Galloway's blog the other day and found his write up about TeraCopy from Code Sector. TeraCopy has some nice features beyond what Windows gives you, such as restartable copies, but it also make Vista tolerable when copying files. It's a must have for Vista users or anyone that like RoboCopy.
While snooping around Code Sector's site, I found DirectFolders. I'm downloading it now, so I can't speak to it personally,...