Visual Studio 2008 Trial VPC image updated for holidays season.
Since the existing VPC trial image of Visual Studio 2008 will expires in end of this year, Microsoft has updated the image and posted it online. On top of that, the good folks of Redmond also created images for those wanting to run VS2008 in their Hyper-V environment.
Something good to play with if you got nothing to do while clearing your year end leaves. 
New version of Windows Live with more Software + Services capabilities
New version of Windows Live clients are available to download from http://download.live.com
Besides the new icons set, the new client applications has better integration with Windows Live Services. For example, once sign in using Live ID (Hotmail ID) when you open Live Photo Gallery, you will be able to tag people in the photos based on their Live ID.
The new installer also added options to install Silverlight and Office Live addin which was previously not available.
Customizing Processes in Team Foundation Server
No one will ever take a process out of the box from TFS without a need to customize it. So this morning I did a talk in DevTalk about using the newly released Process Template Editor to modify the process template in Team Foundation Server.
You can go here to download the slides. And here for the tool.
Open Office documents in Firefox
Microsoft released a open source project to create a Firefox based plugin to open OpenXML documents created by MS Office 2007 (or other Office versions with compat pack). This is to facilitate people who don’t have Office or are using *-NIX based OS like Linux. I got the plugin installed on my PC and below is the screenshot, appearantly it translates the .docx file to .xhtml file to be opened up by FF.
Here is the high level architecture I got from the website
The following features are planned for the first milestone:
- Core transformation framework
- Browser plug-ins for Firefox 3.0.x on Windows and Linux
- Word Document features including translation of
- font types
- images
- text styles
- diagrams
- tables
- hyperlinks
- Test Results
Bring back Netscape Navigator to your browser
I started surfing the Net since Netscape 2.0, where that time microsoft.com is still a static HTML page. It has been a long time since AOL discontinued development and support of Netscape browser since version 9.0.
If you still want back that nostalgic feeling, you can install Simple Green theme for Firefox (pic above). Go here for FF2 or FF3
Even the Options box is themed
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
- 10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail
- Visa certifies NFC-equipped Android, BlackBerry smartphones for payWave -- Engadget
- An easy way to use certificates for WCF security - CodeProject®
- 6 Things To Do when you got your Unifi Wireless Router D-Link Dir-615 « Sawanila.com™
- Controlling Registry ACL Permissions with Powershell
- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
- Using Local Machine Accounts for Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010
- How Trello is different - Joel on Software