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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Power Management

by BradA via Brad Abrams on 8/21/2005 7:35:00 PM

I talked a while back about some issues around battery life , but recently a co-worker set me a really interest set of factoids about power management I thought I’d share with you.. There are no “miracles cures” on horizon for the issue of battery life. Fuel cells, although an exciting technology, are probably 5+ years away. It is pretty much up to the platform to extend battery life--and this includes software. (see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1772287,00.asp ... [ read more ] 3 comment(s)

boxing of nullalbe types (changes since Beta 2)

by Bill McCarthy via @ Head - Bill McCarthy - VB on 8/21/2005 1:06:00 PM

Last night I was chatting with Corrado Cavalli about the nullable type changes since Beta 2. He was kind enough to run some test code for me using the August CTP. The changes to the boxing behaviour mean that when a generic nullable type is boxed, if the nullable type .HasValue is False, then the boxed variable becomes an actual null reference. If the value is not null, then it can be directly cast to the underlying type or the Nullable type. for exa ... [ read more ] 2 comment(s)

Transmogrify - A message from Bill Vaughn

by via The VBUG Blog on 8/21/2005 8:50:20 AM

Here we are on an ever shortening precipice that is the time before the next version of our life enhancing development tools are released. To accompany this, Bill Vaughn has provided an article on converting VB6 ADO code to all singing all dancing ADO.NET code. If this is something of interest then you'll find it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/VBasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnadonet/html/migratingtoadonet.asp Enjoy. 1 comment(s)

The perils of stubbing out methods

by noemail@noemail.org (Benjimawoo) via Benjimawoo - Learning VB.NET on 8/21/2005 12:11:00 AM

I only have a single-thread brain. Sad, but true. I can only really concentrate on one thing at a time. For example, when I'm writing, I like to stub out sections of code so I can some back and flesh them out when I've finished something else. Take thei example of some code in process: Public Function GetString(AllTheString as Boolean) as String If AllTheString Then Return "You asked for all the string" ... [ read more ]

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