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31 January 2007
PowerShell, Windows Vista Ultimate Extras and WLM 8.1

The original post was titled Ultimate Extras vs PowerShell as I felt a little cheated seeing Hold'Em Poker ship before Windows PowerShell but I jumped the gun a bit. PowerShell 1.0 for Vista is available for download !. While the Windows Vista launch went by with less buzz and fanfare than expected there... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Fun Stuff, Messenger, PowerShell

29 January 2007
Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Yahoo! is soon shipping a new version of their Yahoo! Messenger for Vista . This new version was developed from the ground up for Windows Vista using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . Check out the site and the video clip for a good example of WPF being applied in a real world application. While... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Fun Stuff, WPF

04 July 2006
WCF/WS-MEX/WCS/ClickOnce Sample

Alphabet soup :) I’ve uploaded a sample to my blog illustrating the usage of a WCF client in a ClickOnce environment which I concocted after reading Nigel Watlings very useful post on “ using the MetaDataResolver with Windows CardSpace and WCF ”. The client is bootstrapped through WS-MetaDataExchange... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Vista, Fun Stuff

23 January 2006
Windows Vienna

Scrolled through a category in RSSBandit I rarely ever read and stumbled across this: According to vnunet.com it seems Microsoft have changed the codename for the next post-Vista version of Windows Blackcomb to Windows Vienna. I preferred the ski resort/bar codenames though. Little more on Blackcomb... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Fun Stuff