Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in .NET on Jul 31st, 2004
The .NET beta has been available for a few weeks now. I’ve been spending a little time with it everyday and I have been finding many wonderful things. For instance, the Base Class Libraries (BCL) have been extended – with several new namespaces and lots of new classes. A couple of my favorites. Compression Libraries [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
Robert Hensing is writing about security and his first post {Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks} is a doozy. Stop what you are doing. Go read Robert Hensing’s’ article. Ready to change your password? Most of us think we know what is best when choosing a password; think [...]
I’m not sure if you seen this comment on another post of mine. Your theorizing is correct. In VB 2005, if you put the parenthesis there, however, we will honor them and not remove them. This comment is from Paul Vick at Microsoft – he should know! So the disappearing parenthesis gotcha is going away [...]
To fully understand VB Gotcha #1 we need to look at the brief history of Visual Studio.NET and spend some time understanding .NET arrays and VB.NET implementation of arrays. Consistent model With the release of VB 7.0 (VB.NET) there was a lot of hoopla from Microsoft concerning the more consistent programming model. One of the [...]
Last week I was participating in a discussion thread about VB.NET and the Windows Forms. Matthew asked whether there was anything funky with the forms class that he should keep an eye out for. Those of us who were veteran users of VB 6 remember some of the odd behavior that cropped up from time [...]
Posted in General on Jul 17th, 2004
In case you have heard yet, Microsoft Virtual PC can run a wide variety of operating systems. Reading the Microsoft documentation will not tell you this, it is very vague on the complete list of systems supported. But someone – Jonathan Maltz – has spent a lot of time figuring out everything you want to [...]
Posted in .NET on Jul 11th, 2004
What a pain in the neck the last couple hours have been. I’ve been writing a installer application that will add some of our custom components to the Visual Studio toolbox. I wrote a console app that does the work, only took about 30 minutes to put together. When the testing started however, I got [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2004
Email has had a profound effect on many parts of global culture. But I have to say it is a walking corpse, a zombie, that you see everyday but is virtually lifeless. Corporations will continue to use it – but not for much longer. Many corporations have started seeking ways to eliminate email from their [...]