July 2009 - Posts
Ran into the office earlier today and installed:
- Windows 7 Ultimate (RTM) – which includes .NET Framework 3.5sp1.
- Office 2010 (Technical Preview) – my first try of Office 2010.
- Live Essentials – Live Writer and more…
- VS 2010 (an internal build from July 23rd) which includes .NET Framework 4 + the most current build of WPF 4
- Expression Suite 3 (RTM)
- Silverlight 3 Runtime & SDK
Time to do some playing and coding!
:-)
I've been happy with the work that the search team has been doing. One little thing that I've enjoyed with their new version is their picture of the day on their home page (http://bing.com) Although most of my searches are usually done in the search box in IE, every couple of days I go to the bing home page to check out the picture of the day... Mouse over the copyright in the bottom right of the photo and it tells you about the picture. Click on the left arrow to go to the previous picture. You can also mouse over special boxes somewhere in the photo that sometimes have interesting things related to the picture. Often, there are interesting places/things from around the world...
One wish for it...when my browser/resolution allows it, I'd love to have a bigger picture...
This photo is a green turtle, maui, hawaii....
Very happy to see that we announced that Windows 7 is done! My wife has had this on her laptop for a month or so, and is very happy with it. My media center is running well at home with it. My work laptop likes it too.
For those of you WPF developers out there...it is exciting to see .NET 3.5sp1 ship as part of Windows 7!
[update 7/23/2009]
To answer the question in comments "won't it include .net 4.0?":
Nope.
Windows 7 is done as of July 2009. .NET 4 shipped Beta1 in May 2009, and was not trying to catch the Windows 7 train. It is not done yet.
Glenn writes about the current ideas on how MEF and XAML can work together today. Our teams explored several options for .NET 4 as well, where we get a few more options. So far (for .NET 4) we landed that the default XamlServices.Load() for general XAML and XamlReader.Load() for WPF wouldn't do special MEF things - mostly the concern is about performance for XAML/BAML loading, which is critical.
If you are into MEF, please give Glenn's update a read...would love to hear your thoughts...(his post already has many people commenting)