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One of my dream tool to try and use is this LINQ, Language Integrated Query introduced by Microsoft’s platform group at PDC. As am basically a Database Developer and till date from day 1 of my career worked only for database companies (Oracle, SOLID, MySQL, Certive and now ANTs) and supposed to be part of SQL Server team as well but denied the offer due to relocation to Redmond last year.
As LINQ extension to Visual Studio will allow me to write queries to databases and XML data from within Visual Studio, so its time for me to see how ANTs Database works on this platform. Will try once I get the new RC of Visual studio 2005.
Here is the interesting pointers that I collected so far for LINQ as a starting point:
After seeing a comment from Vaibav (I guess he might be related to Monad team), thought of doing some experiment with the command line help of the commands before we get any document on this from the team.
First lets look into the the following two screen shots:
You can observe that, the command “
mkdir /help” raises an error in old command line where as it creates a directory called ‘help’ in the new one. And re entering the same command in the new sheel raises a nice error saying directory already exists as shown below:
MSH C:\> mkdir /help
new-item : Item with specified name C:\help already exists.
At E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\msh\profile.msh:53 char:1
+ new-item <<<< -type directory -path $args
I wasn’t sure what the line
new-item <<<< -type directory -path $args means (may be debug info ?).
In the similar lines “mkdir –help” also created a directory called “–help” which is similar to the old command shell behaviour. But the old one does remove the directory –help with a simple command like rmdir –help where as new one does not and one has to double quote the name as shown below:
MSH C:\> mkdir --help
Directory: FileSystem::C:\
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
—- ————- —— —-
d—- 9/15/2005 10:32 AM –help
MSH C:\> mkdir –help
new-item : Item with specified name C:\–help already exists.
At E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\msh\profile.msh:53 char:13
+ new-item <<<< -type directory -path $args
MSH C:\> rmdir –help
remove-item : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter ‘-help’.
At line:1 char:12
+ rmdir –help <<<<
MSH C:\> rmdir “–help”
MSH C:\>
So, wondering how the backward compatibility will work if we have any batch scripts written based on this even though its not a good practice to have weired characters in file or directory names. Anyway, we will experiment more once the Monad team publishes any help on the new shell and stay tuned for the updates
Its time to list all the new products that Microsoft unveiled at PDC as of now, so that I dont foget them as there are too many to remeber
Here is the list grouped by the list which we talked in this blog
I am not sure if I missed any here. Anyway, will review one by one later on by trying on Vista.
“Monad” Shell is a new interactive command-line from Microsoft. In my earlier post last month said when we can see the Monad. Finally Monad Beta2 is released today and its avaialable for download from here. I just downloaded Monad and installed in on my Vista as well on Windows 2003 Server and found nothing interesting, except that it allows ‘ls’ syntax now (during the install on Vista I found it created a folder on the desktop and then removed it automatically after the installation is done, but I did not notice it after the reinstall, also it refreshes the desktop once the installation is done).
You can find few screen shots below:
In screenshot2 you can find that
“dir /help” is not working; means old command line options format (/) is not recognized. I could not able to find any doc on new features to explore, but worth to try. If you have any questions, feel free to send it to
Monad team here. Once I find any help doc, will explore more and update back.
[Submitted by Kris]
Today At PDC, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft® Codename “Max”. Max lets us list, organize, share the photos and turn them to slide shows.
Here is my quick install experience:
We have to wait and see what new wonders will be introduced to this MAX in coming days..
[Submitted by Randy]
The much anticipated Microsoft Office 12, screen shots are available from xbetas website as well from BetaNews; which were unveiled in the ongoing PDC 2005.
Office 12 comes with a completely redesigned user interface as well as new methods to make working with documents easier. The person behind the UI is Julie Larson; and dont you think the Julie’s team did a wonderful job by seeing the screen shots ?