The eVC Upgrade Wizard (which will upgrade eVC3 and eVC4 projects to VS 2005) is now available as an addon for VS 2005 Beta 2. The Upgrade Wizard will be integrated into the final release of VS 2005.

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Microsoft Launches Community ‘Hive’, from BetaNews.

“Microsoft this week unveiled a new online resource designed to bring together leaders in the Windows community and open the lines of communication between the company and its evangelists. The Hive is Microsoft’s latest community outreach effort, which is designed to help bring the back the buzz to Windows.

Unlike MSDN Channel 9, which centers around developers, and Microsoft’s academic-oriented The Spoke, The Hive focuses on consumers and getting the word out about what’s going on within the Windows Group. Members will receive insider news and information, and be able to share ideas with others.

The Hive isn’t open to everyone; only active community leaders that run Web sites or mailing lists with 50 or more members may join, although Microsoft says some exceptions are possible. To encourage participation, the company will be awarding prizes until July 31, 2005.”

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Gentoo Founder Joins Microsoft, from OSNews.

Daniel Robbins, the creator of Gentoo, has taken up a job at Microsoft.

如果我沒記錯, Daniel 應該是 Portage (ebuild) 的作者之一, 也 Gentoo Linux 的發起人之一. 連 Gentoo Linux 的老大都去了 Microsoft, 那那些自詡為自由軟體的基本教義派的人, 不知道會作何感想 :)

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64-bit Windows FAQs for ISVs, from MSDN.

Here is a FAQ for Development on 64-bit Windows.

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Microsoft Tech Ed 2005 announces Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO 2005).

• Getting Started Article
• Architecture Overview Article
• Task Solution Article
• Hands-on-Labs
• Snippets
• Feature Samples
• Core Bits

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Microsoft offers tabbed browsing–in IE 6, from news.com.

雖然 IE7 才會有 support tabbed browsing, 不過 IE6 還是可以用 tabs. 那就是用 MSN Search Toolbar. 如果新版本沒有 support, 可以到 BetaNews 裝 2.0.2.1007 版的 MSN Search Toolbar. news.com 是說 http://toolbar.msn.com/ 放的新版本沒有 support IE tabbed browsing, 不過我試的結果是可以的 (Win2k + IE6), 可能 news.com 寫錯了?

You could extend the power of MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search at http://addins.msn.com/.

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HTTP Performance, from Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog.

To dig into the guts of HTTP performance using Microsoft Fiddler, which allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. You could learn how to build a faster Web site using the Microsoft Fiddler HTTP Debugger at MSDN.

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