A day is a long time. Atlas, XNA, Office
You have one public holiday and a whole bunch of new stuff
come out. I guess with MIX, Office Developer Conference and the Game Developer
Conference at the same time that was bound to happen. Bill Gates even managed
to keynote MIX on Monday and Office DevCon on Tuesday. Some update
1) The Atlas
Mar CTP is available. You can Go-Live with these bits
2) A new build of IE7 – Beta 2 Preview is available
3) A CTP of VSTO v3 is available
. As per the website, The Visual Studio
Tools for Office "v3" CTP gives developers who are using the
Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1 technical refresh an early glimpse at some of the
key new features and feature directions in the area of Office programmability.
These features include extensibility of the new Office UI, the new Office Open
XML file formats, and support for customizable application-level task panes
across Office applications. The next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office
is designed to help developers take advantage of the new capabilities in Office
2007, as well as to provide additional infrastructure to ensure Office
solutions created with managed code run more reliably, efficiently and securely
4) The Windows
Developer Live Center went live (excuse the pun J )
5) Managed Code will be supported on the Xbox and the XNA
Framework was unveiled. From http://www.microsoft.com/xna/
The XNA Framework is an exciting new
development and execution environment which will allow game developers to more
easily create games which run on the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms.
It is being designed with a unified set of class libraries which will allow for
maximal re-use of code and assets across target platforms. A custom version of
the Common Language Runtime is being built to enable the execution of managed
code on an Xbox 360,
6) Related to above. The XNA Build Mar CTP is available
7) http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
was announced at the Office Developer Conference.
As far I know both the Office and MIX keynotes should be
available – I need to find them and check them out J