January 2006 - Posts

Idea For Community
Monday, January 30, 2006 3:55 AM

I got this idea over the weekend, whilst thinking about the developer community in South Africa. We have tons and tons of articles around certain development issues, and, off course, some sample code within these articles, but we do not have a proper repository - searchable - for these snippets of sample code. What does the community think about setting up such a repository for our local sample code?

 

 

 

More IE 7 News
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:53 AM

IEBlog posts that Internet Explorer 7 will support a native XMLHTTPRequest object as many other browsers currently do. This will mean no more ActiveX MSXML objects to implement AJAX functionality. It looks like Microsoft is seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier. Of course you'll still need to use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object if you want to support IE6 and older

 

Read More Here:

 

http://slashdot.org/

New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:04 AM

An interesting article I found on msdn online containing some good information regarding VS2005 and datasets.

Full Story Here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/newdtastvs05.asp

by riaan | with no comments
Internet Explorer 7 leaked
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:02 AM
Microsoft had promised to go public on Internet Explorer 7 in the first quarter of this year. But as a part of Microsoft's eternally-delayed Windows Vista, one might have thought IE7 would suffer the same setbacks.

However, some Windows fans took matters into their own hands when last Friday it was revealed that a build of the new browser - version 5299 - along with numerous screenshots, was available online.

 

Full Story: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/82744/internet-explorer-7-leaks-onto-internet.html

 

 

by riaan | with no comments