OK this is only for the hard core geeks but some great go getters in the LA area are putting together a BarCamp… don’t know what a BarCamp is? Check out the BarCamp Los Angeles wed site where there are several links to find-out more information. I will be there and hope to give some talks about Atlas and other new tools that Microsoft is coming up with.

 

I have been asked of late some questions on how to do distribution of Smart Client applications with Visual Studio 2005. To use the traditional installer you will need to get to know the Windows Installer SDK with this SDK you can do anything you may want. Make sure you checkout the ClickOnce information so you can see how much it can do for you with or without the Windows Installer SDK.

I can’t take credit for this graphic but I was such a good depiction of the capabilities of Windows Mobile 5 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) that I had to post it. What this means is that most of Microsoft biggest customers and a lot of small customers have all they need today to have secure Mobile solution.

I happen to be talking to a guy while I was at LAX coming back from Fresno, he was just setting up a Blackberry phone device of some sort and we got talking… To make a long story short hi company who had MS Exchange had just setup a RIM infrastructure and sent all of it’s filed employees new devices. I told him about the new features included in MSFP, he was quite interested, then I learned he was the CFO for this company… whoops I hope the CIO dose not get too hurt .

While I am on the subject let me show the device I am pinning over, the bad news is I have only had my i730 for about 6 months so I have a while before I can get it

Do you want to protect your home, fiends and families systems? Try Windows OneCare Live and let Microsoft know what you think.

I am doing some research on implementing Themes and Master pages and I found a great resource… The ASP.NET for Designers has some great resources for developers wanting to learn how to make there sites work the best for designers.

Public beta of the MSBuild Extras - Toolkit for .NET 1.1 has been posted. This is great for customers who are using the VS 2003 plug-in for TFS and want to use MSBuild.

.NET Pet Shop 4: Migrating an ASP.NET 1.1 Application to 2.0

A new 2.0 implementation of a classic thank you Vertigo Software for another great job.

I know that security can be a dry topic but of late I have been having some interesting reads on the .NET Security blog. Some gems in there include Detecting that You're Running in a ClickOnce Application and Isolated Storage and ClickOnce.

Have fun and make security a priority to avoid issues tomorrow!