Jirong's Groovey .net space

再次XP　主题支持

今天研究了下office的addin里用xp主题，这个还是很有话头的。.net 1.0和1.1只用Application.EnableVisualStyles（）并不是问题的答案。

asp.net上发现篇比较好的文章，共享一下
http://blogs.msdn.com/asanto/archive/2004/08/13/214426.aspx

除了楼主用manifest文件外，Application.EnableVisualStyle也是方法之一，不过调用这句之后还要加上一句Application.DoEvents();　应该是这样子调用
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.DoEvents();
Application.Run(new Form1());
}


Office 和vs.net的addin里只能用第三种方法,千万不要应用Application.EnableVisualStyles()，会不断出现'System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830033#6

posted @ 2005-05-01 01:05 Jirong Zhou 阅读(1021) | 评论 (1) | 编辑

Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Collaboration Software Provider Groove Networks

微软昨天完成了对Groove的收购，Groove的产品和服务会是MS  Office体系的一部分，微软的Office网站上已经可以查看Groove信息。更加值得期待的是Microsoft Information Worker Business因Groove和Ray Ozzie加盟而更加完善和友好。这里的Office小组可以考虑研究下MIWB：）

Anyway, good news for all existing customers and 3rd party partners:

Groove will continue to operate from its Beverly, Massachusetts headquarters as part of Microsoft's Information Worker Group and will provide customers and third-party partners with uninterrupted product and service offerings.

posted @ 2005-04-09 14:49 Jirong Zhou 阅读(661) | 评论 (2) | 编辑

Recent comments on MS Groove issue

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/10/HNmicrosoftgroovedeal_1.html
"The combination of real time server based and peer-to-peer communications will clearly be a significant enhancement, so you can expect that as part of our product planning for the next major wave. We are expecting to use it very broadly," said Jeff Raikes, group vice president in charge of Microsoft's Information Worker Business unit.

I'm reminded of what Jon Udell had to say two years ago:
InfoWorld- Uniting under Groove- February 14, 2003- By Jon Udell ...
"Groove founder Ray Ozzie and his teams have always pretended to build application software. But what they have actually delivered are the operating systems of the future — years ahead of schedule.
It defines what Microsoft and Apple will be lucky to achieve by 2006. "


http://news.com.com/Ozzie+wants+a+unified+story+at+Microsoft/2008-1012_3-5611099.html

Ray Ozzie says:
"I think what Bill is referring to is that some of those technologies, particularly security, have more general applicability than the general collaboration offerings. It's too soon to know or discuss what the specific impact will be, but I will be working with the platform group to see (how) those things that we've done can be generalized."

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3489576

 Meta Group analyst Mike Gotta said Groove's middleware should benefit Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Longhorn, due in 2006.

"Groove has invested a lot of its intellectual property in its middleware," Gotta said. "Everyone tends to talk about the client and gets enamored with Virtual Office. But the crown jewel is not the desktop application. The crown jewel is all of the middleware and the security model around it and the fact that it is firewall friendly."

My 2 Cents:
I guess the acquirement will be finished in late June/early July. They have to deal with some law issue both in American and Euro. Because it's a buy from Microsoft.


Groove will be adopted in the following route:
Integrate it into the Office Suite(Sharepoint, Live Communication Server especially) --->MSN Desktop--->OS(Longhorn)  Groove Network has invested lots of time and effort to release Web Service Development Ket(GWSDK). Though it's not that powerful compared to the COM/Interop tool level development. However the team is eager to hear its partner's voice. For example, I asked Message History management web service when they release 3.0(f) and I got it the day before yesterday in 3.1. Support from GN is famous and I am sure we will get better support from MS later.

And my suspection: Groove,as-we-know, will vanish later. MS buy Groove as an investment for Office 12, MSN and Longhorn.

posted @ 2005-03-12 22:35 Jirong Zhou 阅读(643) | 评论 (1) | 编辑

Groove Custom Development

不出意料，几年后微软收购了Groove公司，Ray  Ozzie也出任MS的CTO。看来这几年这个平台上花的时间没有白费，从开始复杂的COM API集到现在的web service toolkit.庆祝下自己的选择，不好意思放首页来了：）

posted @ 2005-03-12 04:25 Jirong Zhou 阅读(1033) | 评论 (8) | 编辑

vs.net启动无法装载包

上个月出现的问题，重装vs.net也没效果，今晚查了下KB，原来是我把Protected  Storage服务关掉，控制面板里启动这个服务就能解决。另外这个服务禁止之后，启动MSN会有个漫长的等待。

SYMPTOMS

CAUSE

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, start the Protected Storage service, and then reload the skipped packages.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823245

posted @ 2005-03-12 04:19 Jirong Zhou 阅读(1023) | 评论 (0) | 编辑

用.net 编写ActiveX组件？

用C#编写ActiveX控件

上回跟bloodchen有过类似的讨论，用.net编写Maxthon的Sidebar Plugin。

这个应该不能算是真正的ActiveX，可以到Add Reference试试，你没有办法将它添加到你的winform project里，IE是市面上唯一官方提供support的unmanaged host for winform control，smart application一部分，如果您在.net安全向导里设置允许直接运行.net程序，点击.exe的链接，IE会自动调用framework来运行这个managed component。可以参考wahoo这个winning application. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/wahoo/

MS在.net framework　1.0 beta里有文档说明如何将Winform Usercontrol publish为activex，但是1.0 release不再支持。如果有兴趣可以参考Chris Sells和CodeProject上的文章。http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/20/winformshosting.html
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/exposingdotnetcontrols.asp

posted @ 2005-01-05 23:49 Jirong Zhou 阅读(2094) | 评论 (0) | 编辑

Free Ebook #1

Dissecting a C# Application  这本书已经作为free的ebook发布，不知道是不是已经有人报道，曾经在上图的书架上看到过翻译的版本，实在是不怎么样，还不如直接看原版的清楚。如果觉得屏幕上看起来太累，完全可以一章章打印出来看，成本肯定比花美金买合算。

不好意思，我找不到这篇post合适的目录，想着这里大概会有人需要所以放到首页那个目录里去了。非常抱歉。

posted @ 2004-12-28 22:46 Jirong Zhou 阅读(1178) | 评论 (5) | 编辑

新居落成

A nice Christmas gift on New Year's Eve:)

Merry Christmas! Now I am working with Winform/ComInterop based Groove tool development. Later we will migrate to WebService powered application development.

Again I appreciate the invitaion link very much and best wish to cnblogs and all people here.

Regards
Jirong Zhou

posted @ 2004-12-25 00:04 Jirong Zhou 阅读(531) | 评论 (1) | 编辑