giovedì 19 aprile 2007
Notizia freschissima: meno di un'ora fa Microsoft ha rilasciato il codice sorgente C# di XML Notepad 2007. Il progetto è stato ovviamente pubblicato su CodePlex ed è disponibile a questo indirizzo.
Appena ho letto il post di Corrado sul rilascio della Beta 1 di Orcas mi sono precipitato a scaricarla... In questo momento sto prelevando i file immagine di Virtual PC della versione Team Suite senza Team Foundation Server, disponibili qui. La pagina riporta che la dimensione di ogni file è di 1 KB, in realtà avviando il download si scopre che ogni archivio è di 700 MB 
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According to Somasegar [Microsoft Corporate Vice President], the first beta bits will ship this month, but will not be feature complete. A second beta will follow, being made generally available later in 2007, but Orca's final release date remains nebulous. "We are not in the habit of shipping software before it is ready," Somasegar explained.
L'articolo completo è disponibile qui.
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Rick Brewster sono disponibili alcune anticipazioni sulle novità che troveremo in
Paint.NET 3.07:
- The Help / Documentation is being moved online. It will no longer be part of what you download. Doing this reduces the size of the download from 4.5MB all the way down to 1.2 MB.
- The Line/Curve tool is being enhanced to allow you to draw arrow heads. You can also set the line to be drawn with a few different dashed and dotted styles. You can set these options in the toolbar, and there are also keyboard shortcuts to cycle them (comma, period, and forward-slash).
- When an image has unsaved changes, its thumbnail in the upper right corner of the Paint.NET window will have a little orange asterisk. This is something I really wanted for the big v3.0 release, but time and energy ran out and it just had to be punted. But it's here now! Not exactly something to write an epic poem about, but it's another nice touch. It will allow you to see at a glance which images still need to be saved.
- The Save Configuration dialog will now allow you to maximize it, and it will also remember its location and size. I personally have considered this to be a nuisance in the past, where everytime I went to save a JPG or GIF, I would have to reposition and re-size the darn window. Well, now it's a bit smarter about it, and it's about time!
- There are some bug fixes, as usual. One thing that people have reported is that actions like Crop or Rotate Image reset the layer selection to the bottom layer. This is being fixed. There are also some issues that have come up regarding the new Open/Save dialogs in Vista, and I will be fixing those as well. The dialogs in Vista aren't buggy, but our use of them was incomplete and you couldn't open files from certain sources, for instance.
E' stata rilasciata una nuova versione di Krypton Toolkit, la 2.5.1, con lo scopo di risolvere alcuni problemi che sono stati riscontrati con la release precedente:
- The design time errors that occur when accessing the smart tag for a Krypton control have now been fixed. In some cases this even crashed Visual Studio and occured because the design time methods were obfuscated when they should not have been.
- The caption of the MDI parent not updates immediately when an MDI child is maximized. Using the LayoutMdi method in an MDI parent to Cascade or Tile the children not correctly works. Redrawing issues with the MDI child windows that are using custome chrome are also fixed.
- If you placed a custom control inside a KryptonPage of the Navigator it would not correctly handle the use of TAB and SHIFT+TAB to move focus. This is now fixed and focus is actioned in the expected manner.
- When updating the enabled state of a ButtonSpec it would not always redraw the button immediately to reflect the changes state. This is now resolved.
Per il download diretto fare clic qui.
Poco fa ho ricevuto una mail di Microsoft Connect con cui viene annunciato il rilascio di Windows Home Server Build 6.00.1371. Questa CTP arriva a distanza di circa 3 mesi dalla presentazione della Beta 2. Colgo l'occasione per ricordare che il rilascio della Release Candidate è previsto per il 15 maggio, mentre la versione definitiva dovrebbe essere disponibile a partire dal 22 giugno.
Il download è disponibile sul sito Connect, ma può essere effettuato solo da chi partecipa al beta testing del prodotto. Io ovviamente lo sto già scaricando, conto di installarlo domani mattina 
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