Wayward Ho!

There will soon be available a 'light' version of the Wayward Weblog, target marketed for students and amateur blog readers.  It will come available coinciding with the shipment of VS2005 and be titled Wayward Express.  There will be a menu option (and a link if I remember the screen shots correctly) that will take you directly to your favorite Wayward from right inside of VS IDE.  After all, that's why they integrated the HTML viewer deep inside. 

So when you find yourself stuck in a pickle (as many Richard Scarry characters do) you have your choice of help options, you can search for hours using the 'search' feature, link to a bunch of inconsequential MSDN documents that read like sand paper, spend an eternity downloading small code samples that show off every possible feature but the one you are interested in or you can just click your troubles away, visiting the Wayward Weblog for hours of fun and amusement. 

Of course, it will be the 'express' version you have access to.  It won't contain some of the more (shall we say) adventurous posts that might get the company in hot water.  After all, there may be innocent script kiddies downloading this stuff, learning to code and writing black-hat exploitation attacks. 

Still, don't fret. The 'express' version will contain additional material that you won't find anywhere else.  Not even in the official 'pay-for-complete-access' version.  All you need to do is follow this link to download to 50mb exe, which will auto-install the .Net 2.0 runtime, frameworks, VS 'Express' IDE and a link to the Wayward 'Express' Weblog.

Matt

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 29, 2004
  Hey where is the EXE? I click on the link and I don't get anything. Is this another vaporware project?
• Anonymous
  June 29, 2004
  It auto-installed and ran.
• Anonymous
  July 02, 2004
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• Anonymous
  July 02, 2004
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