Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in .NET on Mar 21st, 2005
I’m working on a website project for the next month or so. I was told that the site needs to look good in 800 x 600 resolution. That’s about half the size of my laptop monitor! I need to quickly size a window to a known size. I used to use a tool (BrowserSizer) but [...]
Posted in VB on Mar 20th, 2005
I’m going to keep my eye on Mike McIntyre’s blog. He has started a series detailing how to best migrate your old VB 6.0 applications to VB.NET. His company has done it time after time (they are starting their forty-sixth project) and he knows the pitfalls.
Does you company need to make the jump to .NET? [...]
Posted in General on Mar 9th, 2005
I picked up a copy of the brand new Make magazine (O’Reilly Media) today at the Microsoft Authors summit. O’Reilly has a booth at the conference center, as do most of the other technical publishers, and they were handing out copies of the premier issue.
I love this magazine. It reminds me of other magazines [...]
Posted in .NET on Mar 9th, 2005
If you are a .NET developer you know about the CLR. That big runtime that hosts our code and manages many of the features we take for granted in .NET. Improvements to the CLR will benefit any .NET application irregardless which language it was written. I’m sitting in Kit George’s CLR session here at the [...]
Posted in Conference on Mar 9th, 2005
Today is the first day of the annual Microsoft Authors summit. Microsoft has dozens of these technical conferences every year. Next month, for instance, they will host the MVP summit. The purpose: to reveal details and features from the next generation of software from Microsoft. To prepare the software industry - at least the portion [...]