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No, the outside world is far from boring and the posts and threads on this site have been truly compelling to read and take part in! Even though we aren't seeing a lot of MS posters, a fair percentage of the lurkers are MS employees.

This is the biggest problem with Channel 9 today: lack of Microsoft participation. Maybe if we keep saying it over and over again, it will change. 

Internally, I have been trying to get devs to join in and help answer some interesting questions that are specifically related to what they do for a living. It seems to be working, but obviously it's too slow of a process.

Come on Microsoft people, join in the conversation!


Charles

If you create a new web project in VS 2003 and have a SxS installation of VS 2005 Beta 1 you'll find that the new application will be mapped to ASP.NET 2.0 (this means you won't be able to debug your 1.1 web project...).

You can change this by start->running inetmgr.exe, selecting your new ASP.NET application in the tree view nav, right-clicking, selecting properties, selecting the ASP.NET tab, changing the mapping to ASP.NET 1.1.

At least, this is what I have found.


Charles

Jeremy W. wrote:

"Guy in charge or responding to people who complain about IE's lack of standards compliance"

Thanks for the feedback.

I completely agree that it would be nice to see more participation from Microsoft employees, as well as more thread participation generally. It will take some time for Channel 9 to mature into the kind of place we envisioned. Internally, we are trying to encourage adoption by asking teams across the company to consider participating on Channel 9. It's actually a hard problem. You can't force people to take part; that would be contrary to Channel 9's core principles not to mention artificial. Sometimes, evolution can be a long process. Make no mistake, however, that Microsoft is changing and you are all a part of it. Thank you for your open and honest feedback. 

This is not a marketing/PR machine and your product feedback is being taken seriously and in some cases implemented. The changes made to our security information delivery process were influenced by feedback from related threads on Channel 9. That is a great example of the impact you can have. Keep it up!

Even though a relatively small number of Microsoft employees consistently post on Channel 9 we do know that many employees representing many teams read your posts. So, you are being heard and listened to.



Keep on posting,

Charles

We take globalization issues seriously. Unfortunately, we didn't have the time (or resources) to release a localized Channel 9. This is planned for our next release. I'm sorry if we offend anybody with American style numeric date formats. I agree that this is poor practice for something as global as Channel 9. We'll straighten this out.

Thanks for your feedback and please remember to be respectful of others. There is never a good reason to belittle somebody here. Let's be mindful that Channel 9 is a place for all cultures, even if for the first release we are American-centric from a localization/globalization point of view. Again, this will change.

Keep on posting,

Charles

This is a generic error message we generate for unhandled runtime exceptions. Very often these can be due to SQL timeouts, threading issues, or file locks.
Note that we fixed the table locking bugs (well most of them, there may be more we missed, there are quite a few stored procedures that power Channel 9). We log these errors in the database so we can debug. However, often we see UnhandledHttpException or Unknown Error exceptions which can be tough to track down...

We're working hard on bugs and you'll continue to see improvements.

Thanks for the feedback.

Keep on posting,


Charles

Sampy is spot on. VC++ Whidbey is amazing. There will always be the need for power development, even in the managed world. C++ lives!

Keep on posting,

Charles

We are going to address this and other internationalization constructs in the coming months. Stay tuned. Thanks for your patience.


C9 Dev

So, how do you think the Channel 9 Experiment is going? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What's missing? Etc.
 


We'd love to know your thoughts on this.


Keep on posting,

Charles

Thanks for the links Karsten and Titan.

There is some very interesting research going on in the field of Artificial Life (aka a-life). Genetic programming is a staple in a-life.

It's fascinating that computer science is as hungry for a definition of Life as biology. Then again, developing a unified definition of life is far from a strictly biological problem. It's mathematical (which can fork off into strange territory when you contemplate the notion of the universality of math), philosophical, chemical, physical, biological(rife with unknowns) and algorithmic. Makes good sense, though, given that the things trying to come up with this unified definition (and who created the disciplines above) are themselves alive. 

Of course, like biology, a-life centers its search on implicit universal core principals like natural selection, which may be too limiting for a universal definition. Nevertheless, the a-life camp is very flexible when it comes to chemistry (as is the astronomy camp), designing some wild models of life forms based on non-carbon ingredients. A notable astronomer even devised a thinking cloud of gas with dynamic intelligence. But would such a construct evolve given the lack of a genetic subsystem?

Should be fun to see how this all evolves. (Wait, No!- A System.Charles.UnhandledContradictionException was thrown. Program is aborting.)