Satter Ramblings

Microsoft Product Blogs

Have you ever wonder how to keep up with the flood of information coming from Microsoft? It turns out that there are lots of resources provided by Microsoft. And a good place to look turns out to be a blog, specifically BlogMS! BlogMS was started by Daniel Goodman (a Sr. Technical Account Manager) in his words he started BlogMS in May 2008 in response to customers who wanted to feel closer to Microsoft in order to keep up-to-date with what's going on across Microsoft including the products groups. Think of this website as connecting the dots!

LiveScribe Pen Development

My wife saw the other day a very cool gadget, Pulse smart pen, made by LiveScribe. The pen uses special paper (although they are trying to give users the ability to print the paper) to capture what is written. In addition the pen has a mic to capture the audio associated with the notes being written.

VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1

Today the Server and Tools division at Microsoft where I work now released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. This is actually a big release and contains a lot of bug fixes and goodies for developers.

Developer Search

Are you tired of using Google and having to add additional keywords to find stuff that is actually relevant to development. Well now someone has the solution called - C# Search .NET.

The site is quick and Google like. Very cool - try it out now.

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine

Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine has a cool advertisement for Mobile LOB Accelerator. There is also an article about it. Very cool.

Tech Ed 2008 North America

Tech Ed 2008 North America is coming up next week. The show has now been split into two weeks. One for Software Developers and the other for IT Professionals. In addition, this year MEDC has been folded into Tech Ed. This is a great idea as now your training time and dollars do not need to be split between two shows. In the future Mobile developments will participate in the mainstream conferences like Tech Ed and PDC.

Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008

Mobile LOB Accelerator 2008 is now available for download. This is an update to the original Mobile LOB Accelerator and shows off new features in VS2008 and CF 3.5 while maintain performance. I worked on the underlying data layer which I will be talking about in blog entries. Below is the whole blurb about various features.

Sync Services for Devices

A CTP for Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET aka Sync Services for Devices has been released to the Download Center on MSDN. This allows Sql CE 3.5 to sync to other databases than Sql Server like Oracle.

Mobile Silverlight

Today at MIX Microsoft announced not only I.E. 8 but showed off a new Mobile version of Silverlight. The big shell was the announcement by Nokia to support Silverlight on Symbian platform. Silverlight now works on several desktop browsers and mobile devices. So it is time to start looking at Silverlight for mobile.

Asking for Microsoft

So this is actually a true story. My wife and I have been shopping for a new car. She has decided on a 2009 Murano. Then it gets down right strange.