I submitted my application earlier today and got accepted tonight! For those of you who don’t know, I am writing a browser written completely in Microsoft Visual Basic. It has over 1100 lines of code and took 4 months to write. I used Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It will take a few days before everything is working but when everything is working, the website will be http://browsernet.sourceforge.net (not up yet) and the project page will be http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/browsernet

microsoft released the march preview of expression blend 2.5. it’s kind of surprising since they haven’t even released version 2 (it’s in beta 1). anyway, here’s some screenshots:

as always, it has it’s great looking interface. it’s VERY user friendly, the only thing you will need to make that into a webpage is visual studio 2005 or 2008 standard or better. i don’t think it will work with the express editions but it’s worth a try.

you can download all versions here: http://www.microsoft.com/expression

so i finally finished downloading the 6 700MB files with 1 438MB file. before you start downloading just remember this – don’t use a computer with less that 768MB of RAM you will NOT like the preformance!

the download includes Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Project 2007, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP2, and of cource Visual Studio.

Windows Server will only work until 6/30/08 so start downloading now.

link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=65d0e3bd-9df3-421a-804f-8f01bd90f0b4&DisplayLang=en

-picture coming soon-

yay! i’ve been beta testing this program for 8 months now and it’s good to have it released now. you can download it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio or a VPC with it installed here: http://www.microsoft.com/vhd

screen shot of the CTP release (it’s almost the same as the final version):

yay!