March 18, 2004
Groove v3.0 beta - first looks
 | Just installed Groove 3.0 beta, and first notable thing is its speed ! Aaaaahh, this really is an improvement. What’s more: finally Groove dumped its terrible UI and now opts for a standard windows ‘look and feel’ UI instead. The old ‘transceiver’ is gone alltogether - yeeahaaa - and is replaced with the thingy you see on the left. Much better me thinks!
On the downside: still no search… which is a shame. Also had a quick peek into the Development Kit to look at some sample tool code. Mmm… some major changes I beleive. The CSharp code I saw was new to me, but must say it sure lookes like its simpler then ever before to hack together a custom tool. There is for example a new Groove Workspace API to make coding a tool easier. And - gasp - get data in or out your tool’s database using simple queries (although possible before using XPath-like queries, it looks much easier now). Concluding: Groove 3 looks better, performs better, so it really IS better ;-) |
Try the file sharing - it’s great!
Posted by: Bill Wood at March 19, 2004 04:33 AMThe latest beta drop has a primitive but functional Find in Discussion and Message History.
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Seth Goldstein
Certified Data Ductwork Engineer (and Groove Employee).
Disclaimer: Everything I say is from my brain, not Groove’s.
