Continuing the series on life in a managed world, I promised you Developer Deathmatch. It was honestly more of a friendly challenge between Rico Mariani and Raymond Chen. This is only one application and your mileage will vary from application to application, but the main point here is to show that managed doesn’t necessarily mean […]
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This is the first in a series on life in the managed world. Originally it started as a single post and has been growing tentacles ever since. To tame the beast, I’ll only write about a few tentacles at a time… The performance characteristics of managed code have been an interest of mine for a […]
As usual, I’ve been reading voraciously about all things .NET and here’s a selection of articles and blog posts that every developer should read in their copious amounts of spare time over the holidays. Our first stop is security… Security for developers has long been near and dear to my heart. So it should come as […]
No, I’m not confused. Read on and all shall become clear… Since the dawn of time*, the conditional-expression operator, ?:, has confused C-language newbies for generations. Not to be outdone, C# 2.0 has introduced the ?? operator. This is a little known addition to the C# language that has an interesting use – besides confusing VB […]
Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m probably the second to last VS developer to figure out how snippets really work. I’m writing this post in the hopes that the last developer finds this… Code Snippets is a new feature in VS 2005. I’ve been using them via the somewhat laborious Right Click… Insert Code Snippet… scroll […]
Now that VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 has been released, the torrential flow of tool updates to .NET 2.0 has started. Some of my favourite .NET tools have been updated to .NET 2.0: .NET Reflector by Lutz Roeder GhostDoc by Roland Weigelt I’m anxiously awaiting the next version TestDriven.NET, too. A beta of v2.0 is available […]
I’m going to be one of the Cabana Experts at the MSDN Launch Tour 2005 in Calgary on November 24, 2005. So come to the Cabana and geek out with me as we discuss how Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 are going to change the face of development. Lots of […]
After months of preparation and much secrecy, Plumbers @ Work has been released into the wild by the .NET Plumbers. The regular podcast is part of MSDN Canada Radio and will be featuring John Bristowe, Dan Sellers, Bil Simser and myself. We’ll be talking about current and upcoming developments in .NET and Microsoft technologies. Our inaugaural episode […]
You know it’s coming. .NET 2.0 is just around the corner and you’re going to start seeing all kinds of code that uses generics (in addition to the other cool new features in .NET 2.0). For those of us who’ve been living and breathing the .NET 2.0 betas, CTPs, and RC, it’s old hat. But […]
Coming to one of the Canadian Launch events? If so, you’ll get a Special Edition copies of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for free! According to Mark Relph, these are not trial versions. These are fully functional non-evaluation versions of the products. I’m not sure which SKU they will be distributing, but even […]
