Do Yourself Mainframe Interop in 1 Day !!!

Mainframe Interop with Avalon.

Cool Avalon frontend for green-on-black mainframe screen. Must see all new avalon Carousel control, you should see the vector graphic in work when he zooms in-out. But i don't believe this can be good way to show a hierarchical data {may be for simpler stuff's}. But i like to see it used in user navigation.

SwankyUI aside, we can see the microsoft strategic lean towards interoping with PlatformX.

What next, ... platform neutral Office suite :-)

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition demo by Scott G

*Demo of next version of ASP.NET*, i was expecting some ASP.Net show, but anyhow Scott G, showed some of the feature additions in the new Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, really a lot of improvements {may be lot of *bug-fixes* too}. Some of the feature i liked, Code refactor-ing option, debug mode code change, improvement in design/source mode of page, auto compile of changes, help on exception causes, ...

But when VS.NET was released, i was told it will be one tool for all, but why now a spl edition for web development tool, are we going back to the age of launching multiple apps to work on different projects???

Avalon says "Hello World"

After fighting for more than an hour, I was able to develop a *Hello World* win app in Avalon {March ’05 CTP}, it was tough to get help online as so much changes are happening to the framework, it took me some time and guessing to find the PresentationCore assembly and really tough time understanding what msbuild was expecting in the .proj. I am still yet to find how to use XAML with msbuild.

Long way to go…..

Indigo CTP

Go get the Avalon and Indigo CTP released to public...

Joint system testing completed

As i am wrapping-up the final program validation, i should thank everyone of offshore team. I happen to dig out some statistics of the work we completed,

7 online process 15 batch/components
~51,335 Lines of Code excluding comments, white lines
0 defects, 6 Accepted changes

I would have been happy if we had a chance to repeat this in FundRaiser, if not for that CR, that scoped out the application.

Here goes the list of dedicated team members,
Arumugam, Praveen
Raja Simman, Kamalesh Kumar
Chinnasamy, Ramesh babu
Elumalai, Dhanasekar
Sampathkumar, MuthuAnitha
Prasanna Subramanian;
Sundaresan, Raghuraman;
Cuppala Janakiram, Roopesh Kumar
Elwin, Annecca
Kandimalla, Neeraja
Karthikeyan, Ramesh Kulothunan
Narayanan, Sajitha
Seethapathy, Ganesan
Selvakumar, Annam

And my thoughts,

The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.

Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)