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Mickey Williams gave a good MSDN Webcast on the My Namespace on Friday, 10/28/05, and, as usual, the Webcast should be available for replay either later today (10/25/05) or sometime on Monday ( http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/ ). Mickey demonstrated My.Settings, My.Computer.Clock, My.Computer.Clipboard, My.WebServices, My.Application, and so on. He also promised to post his code on his Website at http://www.servergeek.com/blogs/mickey . VSD subscribers can also look forward to ... [ read more ]
Continuing in the series of discussing topics from the Framework Design Guidelines …   Expert from 3.1.4 Case Sensitivity   Languages that can run on the CLR are not required to support case sensitivity, although some do. Even if your language supports it, other languages that might access your framework do not. Any APIs that are externally accessible, therefore, cannot rely on case alone to distinguish between two names in the same context. DO NOT assume th ... [ read more ]
The .NET Rocks road show was here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area a couple of days ago.  After the show, they did some interviews with the local crowd and I was hanging out with no real intention of being interviewed.  Of course, that didn't work out exactly that way and I did end up having to sit in front of the mic.  It ended up being about a 7 minute interview and was completely done impromptu... thus, I probably sound like a babbling idiot. ;-) Obviously, I recommend listenin ... [ read more ]
I was reading the dotnetjunkies.com newsletter and I spotted these podcasts , a series of them that I have never noticed before, even though they definitely the kind of content I'd be interested in hearing. Moving to .NET from VB6 and C++ Juval Lowy discusses the different perspectives that VB6 and C++ developers bring to .NET including the challenges each group faces with the technology. (MP3 audio, 16:32 mins.) VB6 Glass Ceiling .NET Software Legend Juval Lowy offers hi ... [ read more ]


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