In this episode MSDN talks with Jason Zander and Amnon Horowitz about the important improvements that have been added not only to Visual Studio 2005, but also to ASP.NET and the .NET Framework (v2.0) as well. Later, Rick LaPlante and Shanku Niyogi give us some hands-on examples of how these improvements can aid in the productivity of developing various styles of applications.
Introduction to Visual Studio 2005
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So the “watch it now” button/link doesn’t like Firebird and the 212 meg direct download is not only an .exe, but the link is apparently broken.
So I fire up IE and the sound won’t work even with it turned all the way up on the embedded media player(made sure it was unmuted), and my pc sound turned all the way up.
Everything works perfectly here, man.
Might want to click that little gray/yellow speaker hiding in your system taskbar. I’ve had stupid applications mess with the master volume settings and completely screw things up sometimes.
I mean, weren’t we on the computer as a means of _avoiding_ Talking Head?
It works here perferctly.
Apparently my media player is borked sound-wise. Coincidently, I just used realplayer as my last media player so that’s probably involved somehow. Oh well, I’ll try the direct download later on.
Why can’t Microsoft adhere to open standards?!? Is it too hard to compress in a package the whole world understands? Are there any tools to unpack exe files in Linux? I have a 1 month uptime and I don’t want to reboot to watch the movie on Windows XP[sic].
If it’s a self-extracting zip archive, you can just use unzip to unzip it. If it’s not, it’s a pretty dumb idea, not just because it’s stupid to compress an already-compressed video, but because it prevents anybody considering switching from Linux or Mac to Windows from watching their promotional material!
Who is considering switching from Linux/Mac to Windows? If anything, the lone person considering this probably has access to a Windows PC so he will watch the video on that computer.
Anyway, if you can’t unzip it, you could always try cabextract…
This is rather silly. The majority of Windows users use IE. It’s just the nerds and tech geeks that use Firefox.
The nerds and tech geeks that DEVELOP SOFTWARE.
I guess it makes sense to distribute in Exe format, because its self extractable and doesn’t need additional software to extract the file.
Also if you want to watch it under Linux, why not use wine to extract it?
PS: I don’t know why they are zipping a video file though because you hardly get any compression on video files specially the one with latest mpeg and divx formats.
Anyway, that the movie file is compressed in an self-extracted archive is no problem. The information of a archive resides at the end of the file, the executable information resides at the beginning. So one could use any archive-programm understanding the zip-format to uncompresse the file.
I remember reading from a blog or Channel9 or somewhere else that they use .EXE’s for whitepapers and videos etc so that they can be digitally signed.
Not so. The Unix desktop is very common in the banking and research communities. IE doesn’t run on any version of Unix. And even big corporations that are wed to IE, tend to lock down their Windows systems so that you can’t run ActiveX or run downloaded .EXEs.
It is true that few developers that use Visual Studio.NET will care about anything other than IE, and most of these developers will likely have more freedom on what they can install, you can’t assume that their managers or other decision makers will have this luxury.
I don’t think people actually mind paying for good products but when you buy microsoft your almost guaranteed to be let down sooner or later.
In this particular case, I would like to use the .NET 2.0 SDK but also have an IDE for it. I’ve already purchased VS.NET and VS.NET 2003 when .NET 1.1 came out. Now I’m expected to shell out once again just to use .NET 2.0? If thats what I’m expected to do then forget it. Is there any way to use these platforms with older versions of Visual Studio? If not I think I’ll take a look at Borland C# Builder, or SharpDevelop for my next project.