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10 hours ago, cbae wrote

I lost interest in Windows 8 after I found out that the Windows 7 display driver that I used for the Dev Preview doesn't work in the Consumer Preview. I don't understand how this is the case though. Did they drastically change the driver model at some point between builds?

I suppose I'll see if I can scrounge up a hacked driver when I get more time.

Do you also have an AMD 7970 card? I find it very annoying that AMD has Windows 8 CP drivers for all their cards except the latest.

Okay, harddrive space is cheap and plentiful ...

SSD drive space is scarce and expensive

@123tax: I hope that Microsoft will present a few "Certified for Windows 8" tablet choices along with the Customer Preview version. Having a few OEMs present their tablets preloaded with Windows 8 Customer Preview (upgradable to the RTM version) tomorrow would be a nice surprise.

@MasterPie: I see the ViewModel as an adapter between the Model and the View, that enables you to keep the Model clean of View-specific stuff. The coupling between View and ViewModel tends to be tight anyway, so I don't mind having some additional properties for the View in there.

@MasterPie: If you're using MVVM you can sometimes avoid Value Converters by creating additional properties in your View Model that do the proper conversion. But I agree that the number of Value Converters tends to grow steadily with the size of the project.

Still no word about a release date for SL5? According to MJF there were rumors about it coming last week, but now it looks as it won't even be out this week because of Thanksgiving.

8 hours ago, vesuvius wrote

@Charles:I think the bug fixes in WPF are going to make pretty much everything that uses the technology much faster. Just wish there was a way to update pre .NET 4.5 versions and that the bug fixes had been made in the .NET 3.5 SP1 stage - they really should have identified, prioritised and fixed the issues then. 

At least .NET 4 apps should benefit from the fixes, because as I understand it, .NET 4.5 is an in-place update for .NET 4.

http://www.asana.com/ is another new, free team collaboration tool. Takes a different approach, but tries to solve the same problem as Trello.

Interestingly, it doesn't even bother supporting IE (not even IE9).

Not sure if this is related to this "gone global" change, but C9 site performance has been very bad for me in the last couple of days. Videos are OK, but forum pages often either won't load on first try or take several seconds. Reply and Quote also didn't work (at least today). I'm on "Nothern Europe".

I noticed a confusing trend recently which makes it difficult (at least in my opinion) to judge the quality of a software prerelease version. A recent example is SL5. Whereas SL5 itself had the well-known labels of "Beta" and "RC", the corresponding Blend version is labeled "Preview for Silverlight 5". What does that mean? Is it Preview < Beta < RC, or Beta < Preview < RC in terms of quality? And what about CTP? Is it the same as Preview? Why not return to the well-known Beta x, RC x, RTW labeling?

Can someone shed a light on this?