.NET at 9.400 ft above sea level

Reading this blog entry, I remembered of the times when my younger brother Alex was the capo of PowerBuilder 6: just to impress you, he would put the mouse in his shirt pocket and then banged through the IDE just with the keyboard with amazing speed and dexterity. Well, it so happens that you can do the same with Visual Studio, only that we are so spoiled by the mouse that we never learnt how to drive VS without one. Almost a year ago, Jeff Atwood wrote a VS macro that generates a nice Web page with all the keyboard shortcuts available, I installed the macro, run it, and uploaded the shortcuts page ready for you to download and check here (the link is in Spanish, don't worry, just press the Download button.) So, any unexpected and useful shortcut there?

Pay attention to this few lines of code:

TechEd 2006 started yesterday (and I finally didn't make it). Oh well, thanks to the Internet we can be up-to-date and much closer than not-being-there, for example we can watch the keynote delivered on Sunday afternoon and some other "home made" videos recorded in situ. We can also watch a webcasts series to be done live at TechEd from June 12 to June 16. See you at the Virtual TechEd!

Today, as Ecuador was beating Poland in the World Cup (way to go Ecuador!), Somasegar was announcing that what was previously known as WinFX (WCF, WPF, WF) plus other technologies like WCS (formerly Infocard) are an integral part of .NET Framework 3.0. Furthermore, *all* these components will be available for Vista, 2003 Server, and XP. I think it's time we download Beta 2.

This may be really old news, but I just found out that you can search images in live.com like so:

Earlier today, Microsoft launched (JIT-style) Microsoft Scoreboard. I have this vague idea that, from tomorrow on, many Ecuadorean software developers screens will look like this:

First of all, you just have to love the guys that created these register policies:

First of all, let me tell you that datasets are wonderful, especially if you have to do CRUD operations on relational records. But that doesn't mean they are always the best choice. Ditto for XML. With the obvious statement out of the way, let me tell you this little tale: