Damir hat ein tolles Video zusammengeschnitten...

Starring: Barbara Steiger, Simone Stocker, Frank Butler, Christian Frei, Amy Sorokas, Trisha Lacey, Hans Verbeeck, Karsten Samatschke, Christian Wenz, Damir Tomicic, André Obelink, Dirk Primbs, Frank Prengel, Bill Gates, Jim Alchin, Andres Hejlsberg, Chris Anderson, Don Box, Scott Guthrie, Doug Purdue, Sara Faatz, Samantha Spears, Morgan Baker, Julia Lerman, Nicolas Clerc, Patrick Hynds, Chris Capossela, Golo Haas, Alex Bierhaus, Mario Spuszta, Alexander Holly, Michael Willers, Channel 9 guy

[Jeffrey Palermo]
public launch date and availability is still scheduled for the week of November 7th, but Microsoft will be releasing the software to it's MSDN Universal subscribers first on October 15th.  I've been looking for changes from the Release Candidate to RTM, but I haven't found them yet. I'm glad the software is finally coming out.  I've been working with .Net 2.0 since Beta 1 came out, and I'm looking forward to using the final product. The I've installed Beta 1, Beta 2, and the Release Candidate, and all the IDEs have been stable. You've heard the warnings not to install pre-release software on any computer you care about, but Visual Studio 2005 has been very stable.  I'm impressed.
[...]

Nothing to add, Jeff

Michael says:
    die wahrheit is aufm draht
Michael says:
     die zeiten ändern sich
Michael says:
     fürher war aufm platz heute is aufm draht

Monday: I met Andreas Hoffmann (2nd UG Lead of the VfL Usergrop) and Peter Nowak (Head of FIAEon.net, a community for .NET related vocational education) at Starbucks in Düsseldorf.

Tuesday: Benjamin Mitchell notified me that one of my sessions was voted by the british community and I'll have a session at the Developer Developer Developer Day.

Wednesday: I'm in contact with the Student Partners in Wuppertal now (better said Anselm Haselhoff because Marcel Wiktorin is moving and has not replied yet ).

Thursday: Usergroup meeting in Düsseldorf: Sebastian Weber (Developer Evengelist at Microsoft Germany and member of the VfL-UG) answered all our members questions about SQL Server 2005 and Tuan Nguyen (Lead of annos.de and VfL-Member) talked about the Annos project. Great, thanks guys.

Friday: I updated the VfL-Site and fixed a few bugs.

The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.

-- Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
-- Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
-- Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
-- View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
-- Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
-- Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
-- Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
-- Immediately resize the browser window to 800x600 or a custom size.
-- Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
-- Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
-- Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

It was the second time this year I went to Warsaw (Poland). The Microsoft Technology Summit happend for the first time and was a big success. An amazing event: Two days, about two-thousand attendees, six parallel tracks, four a day. I had about three-hundred listeners in each of my sessions ("Layout and Personalization with ASP.NET 2.0" and "Data-Driven Application with ASP.NET 2.0"). The feedback in the breaks was great.
Thanks to everybody at Microsoft Poland especially Artur and Dominika.

I met Rafal Lukawiecki

Fred Baumhardt and Maciej Pilecki

And had an interesting discussion with Yogesh Bhalerao.



The audience while i was speaking

And the view out of my room in the Meriott.

http://www.mts2005.pl/

Torsten Weber invited me to do one day of sessions at the .NET Summercamp: I introduced .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 and talked about Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

It was the first time in Leipzig and i really liked it. Hopefully i'll be there next year too.

Cropper is a free Screen Capture Utility written in C#

[http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/08/30/]
It's been ten years: Ten years of innovation and ten years of gratitude to Opera users. Today, Opera Software ASA gives back to its community.

Opera just launched its online party. As a sign of gratitude for the community's continuing support, Opera will give away complimentary registration codes for 24 hours. At the party site, people can also chat with Opera employees (including the CEO and CTO), play games, check out the history of the Opera browser, download music made by employees and send in their greetings. In addition, people can check out what happened at midnight at Opera's anniversary party
[...]

http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml

For years I used ACDSee 3.0. It always remembered me of the days of Windows 95/NT 4.0. That is the past now.

Deep deep in your file system there lies a neat tool that does the job very well. The only problem I did not recognize that its even there for years. After i found it, and yes also liked it. I decided to use it and added the missing part to integrate the Office Picture Manager into daily work. Context menu integration:

Here ist the reg-file:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\Browse Pictures ...\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\OIS.exe\" \"%1\""