Office 2007 Technical Refresh Screenshots!

Posted By: Andre Da Costa | Mar 9th, 2006 @ 8:40 AM
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#Mar 11th, 2006 @ 8:43 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
A friend of mine did even a little GDI wrapper for .NET. .NET is using internally GDI+, which is some times slower then GDI, but GDI+ has powerful gradients etc.
#Mar 11th, 2006 @ 8:46 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
I did some custom controls, and yes you have to use System.Drawing and override OnPaint. It's sometimes tricky, but also very funny to do your own controls...

The most challanging thing when writing custom controls is doing the VS integration, with creating own designer etc. But that can be a lot fun too... Smiley

I read a book about custom controls and VB.NET. It was quite interesting (although I'm no big VB.NET fan - I'm more in C#, but languages are only a nice feature and it's easy to step from one .NET language to another), as it gave me informations where to find the attributes to be applied on the properties and classes to have custom designer work properly... For all other stuff it was not so interesting.

Well I learned also that the current controls are easily extended... One thing that is fun to extend is the listbox and combobox. It's little work and looks great.

I did also some custom controls for my Chili Max Feed Reader project.
#Mar 11th, 2006 @ 1:51 PM
flyingdeath
flyingdeath
IL
O12 is damn cool. Specially the tasklist on the right hand side is pretty useful. I dont hav to switch the Inspector window to look for my tasks.
#Oct 25th, 2006 @ 12:28 PM
trunksy
trunksy
balupton wrote:
Andre Da Costa said:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2007office/default.mspx

Does anybody see any similarities between Netscape 8 and Office 2007?


Sorry but if you mean this as 'microsoft stole netscapes layout', i need to reply as 'you got to be kidding'.

I don't see it as stealing even if they did take the idea from netscape, I see it as bringing a effecient technology into a product that needs it.

It reminds me of Mac Users saying wow vista stole our search icon.
I mean come on, how many different ways can you make a magnifing glass look.
And hey if it looks good might as well use it.

Another example is Mac Users saying yep Vista also stole our idea for integrated indexed searching.
Every OS needs this, its a step to build the next generation OS.
It's like saying whoah someone stole my idea for a monitor! - How else can you bring a effecient and cost effective graphical display to the user.

You see where i'm heading...
Ha ha. Everyone always wants to peg someone in a hole to prove that they're right. I think you've internalized an emotion that copycatting good technology is a bad thing. Just because smart people arrive at the same conclusion doesn't make the answer wrong. I think it's silly to say, "I was there first." First mover advantage only accomplishes initial market share. Microsoft's strength has been to recognise good technology when sometimes others don't and sell it better than anyone else can. I think need to stop concentrate on what Mac users are saying and notice a trend. It's not that Microsoft isn't designing good technology. It's that some of its ambitious plans are not arriving on time (WinFS). It's own success of having penetrated 90% of the market has lead to its own downfall of being a lumbering giant when it comes to implementing new technology. You need to see past the literal and comprehend the bigger picture.
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