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I and a few others were on on a call with Microsoft Consulting (India) who were giving us a presentation on SharePoint 2007.

Interestingly the consultant said that the Beta is good for deployment and the only changes to be expected in the final from the Beta would be minor stuff like 'UI look and feel'.

And there I was thinking "Bullshit!". It just could have been the consultant trying to make the sale, but he should know better than to bullshit with people who actually use the product.

Any who. To prevent the "Beta is as good as final" mindset from manisfesting itself I thought it might be neccessary to run a couple of posts to outline what is broken in Beta.

So the first one.

Trying to create a Site of type "News Home Tempate" gave me the following error

Dependent feature 'aebc918d-b20f-4a11-a1db-9ed84d79c87e' for feature '22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416' is not activated at this scope.

Oh Boy, we all love these GUIDs but it could be a little bit more helpfull if I was informed of the features by name.

Technorati : Moss, Sharepoint 2007

I was checking my referer logs and came across this

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Google has search dedicated to blogs - woah! when did that happen.

Technorati : blogsearch, google

Does your SQL 2005 Express feel lonely?

Is it missing pubs and northwind?

Dont fear, you can get the .sql files to recreate them here.

Your SQL 2005 Express will thank you for it!

Technorati : express, northwind, pubs, sql 2005

Check out www.netfx3.com.

Its the community site for everything 3.0 in the framework.

To tell you the honest truth I spent some good time trying to understand this 3.0 business.

"I mean you take the 2.0 Framework, you add Avalon, Indigo etc and then call it .NET Framework 3.0. But in fact its nothing more than .NET 2.0 (Compiler, run time etc.) with additions."

So overall when you get the .NET Framework 3.0 you will not be getting the language enhancements in C# 3.0, VB.NET 3.0, you will not be getting the 3.0 compilers.

Overall thats a bad decision. MS get your head in gear.

Whats bad about it is that it causes confusion. For instance it took me x amount of time to figure what this all was about. It really shouldnt be that way. It should have been a naturual evolution, and if I am confused just imagine how this going to sit with actual customers.

There is a lot of comments/disapproval at Somarsegar's and Jason Zander's blog.

And I agree with Wasim Sadiq on Microsoft screwing up totally cool names.

But does all these add-ons require a major versioning change to .NET? I guess the bigger question is could the .NET Framework do without them, and the answer is yes (we have 2.0).

It would have made more sense to call it .NET Framework 2.0 with .NET Framework Extensions 1.0 (similar to what Dragan Sretenovic mentioned on Jason's blog) and then merge both to 3.0 when the framework actually goes up to 3.0. But to take an existing 2.0 and rename it to 3.0 is just nonsense.

And Edmundo T. Mendiola raises some good points on Somarsegar's blog. Just to quote him

"Better make it clear across all sites in Microsoft and MSDN that .Net Framework 3.0 is the next version and that VB/C#.Net 3.0 are not the real VB/C#.Net 3.0. Unless you can promise to deliver them with .Net Framework 3.0. "

And he's damn right!

But I dont see Microsoft revoking this decision.

Technorati : .NET

Somewhere around March this year Ron Jacobs published an interview where he discussed Web 2.0 trends in the Enterprise with Dion HinchCliffe on ArcCast.

If you have been working with SharePoint for sometime then you'd realize what they speak about in terms of 'Democratisation of Content' isnt something really new. This was something anyone working on SharePoint first got excited about when SharePoint 2003 came out.

Harry Pierson (a.k.a DevHawk ;) ) elaborates on this idea on his blog, and more recenly on a ArcCast episode with Ron Jacobs.

Harry you are right, with SharePoint we are almost there. There may be a few bits missing but we are almost there, and we were almost there way back then.

Technorati : Enterprise 2.0, SharePoint

I am not sure to what aspect of Sri Lanka you would attribute this to?

It could be politics. It could be a show of corporate competition, but both premier cable networks (sorry 1 cable, 1 dish) have been suspended by the government.

In a typical case of each company tipping the authorities on licensing issues of the other (ala tit for tat), poor old me is left without access to international TV :)

Comet Cable you lucky *tards you just wait, I am sure they'll get you too, and then every single cable vendor will be gone.

Technorati : cable, dish, sri lanka

I just got my hands on Rainbow 6 Lockdown and spent a couple of hours with it.

My opinion so far, its not so emmersive as the earlier games.This game falls short of all what Rainbow 6, Rogue Spear, Convert Ops built up.

I was a big fan of the mission planning apect of the game. But this lockdown its more like SWAT. I dont want just another SWAT game, there was a reason why R6 rocked, and thats missing from this one.

Lets hope LasVegas will deliver, but I wouldnt bet on it.

By the way, theres going to be Rainbow 6 movie that is supposed to come out in 2007

Technorati : Game, Lockdown, Rainbow 6