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October 2003 - Posts

• Automated Testing and Accessibility

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 31 2003, 01:48 PM

  Scott talks about the Automated testing framework being a side effect of the accessibility framework that they built into Avalon.

  Avalon, Automation and Accessibility
  

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• More on Avalon

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 31 2003, 11:57 AM

  Scott Hanselman has an article in .NET Insider Journal on Avalon and Longhorn.

  Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing
  
  

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• MSDN TV:Lap Around Longhorn

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 30 2003, 12:39 PM

  MSDN TV has Chris Anderson and Don Box on Lap Around Longhorn

  MSDN TV also now has an RSS Feed!! MS seems to be on a RSS spree...:-)
  

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• Longhorn Setup Tweaks??

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 30 2003, 11:27 AM

  If you have trouble getting Longhorn to work, check out Longhorn Tweak Guide.

  (from Sam Getile's Blog)
  

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• GUI Testing

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 30 2003, 09:29 AM

  Scott writes about the Avalon Testing Framework, which allows you to automate UI Testing.

  This is real exiciting as I have fought a lot with automated UI Testing...:-) The record and replay of mouse clicks have always been one of the most unreliable things and even with some good software, it is always not fully automatic. Someone has to keep an eye on it to make sure that it does not get stuck somewhere due to some other application or a messagebox that poped up from another program.
  

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• Longhorn Videos

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 29 2003, 03:43 PM

  For people who have not made it to the PDC Paul Thurrott has a few Videos taken during PDC.
  

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• Indigo FAQ

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 28 2003, 01:58 PM

  Indigo FAQ is available at MSDN...
  

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• Indigo

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 28 2003, 11:24 AM

  Clemens has a description of Indigo...

  Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COM+, Enterprise Services, Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), WSE, and the Microsoft Message Queue. It provides services for building distributed systems all the way from simplistic cross-appdomain message passing and ORPC to cross-platform, cross-organization, vastly distributed, service-oriented architectures providing reliable, secure, transactional, scalable and fast, online or offline, synchronous and asynchronous XML messaging.
  

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• First Look at Longhorn Development

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 28 2003, 09:19 AM

  Dino has an article in MSDN on the developing applications for Longhorn.

  A First Look at Writing and Deploying Apps in the Next Generation of Windows
  

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• Longhorn Developer Center

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 28 2003, 08:05 AM

  Longhorn Developer Center is availabe online now. It even has a RSS feed....
  

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• Longhorn Quote...

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 21 2003, 12:07 PM

  Scott Hanselman on Longhorn:

  The difference between Lornhorn and Windows 2000 is like the difference between shooting a bullet...and throwing it.
  

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• More on WinFs

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 17 2003, 02:45 PM

  Another article on WinFS in .NET Developer's Journal.

  Longhorn to Tackle Data Storage Problems
  

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• Cost of Developing Longhorn

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 17 2003, 09:42 AM

  This Inquirer article says BillG said “Longhorn to cost as much as man on moon project”. 

  Even with inflation, that is huge, for a software system.....
  

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• XP SP2 and Longhorn

  Posted by anandm to Longhorn From India on Oct 16 2003, 11:28 AM

  Paul Thurrott  has a post on “SpringBoard”, a enhanced security package that will make it into XP SP2. This is part of Longhorn, but MS decided to ship it with XP SP2, thus delaying its release.

  The inclusion of the Springboard security technologies, however, requires a lot more testing time. Sources close to the software giant tell me that beta testers should soon get their hands on an XP SP2 beta version that includes the new security technologies; previous betas did not include any of this code. In addition to the new firewall, which will be left on by default, other Springboard security technologies include a new version of Windows Update, and new memory management code for defeating common buffer overrun attacks. The Springboard technologies will also be made available to Windows Server 2003 customers via the first service pack for that OS, Microsoft says.
  

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