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Continuing in the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 2 with some information on CharSet.   public enum CharSet { CF Ansi = 2, Auto = 4, MS CF None = 1, Unicode = 3, }     AN It’s somewhat unfortunate that CharSet.Ansi is the default behavior for PInvoke, since ... [ read more ]
Jackie GoldStein , our partner and friend, just created a great post talking about the new resources created by the MS Patterns and Practices Team.  I think these are must have assets for any team thinking about an upgrade.  Here are a few more notes from my perspective:  Migration Guide -- a very helpful book covering how a development team can approach a migration to VB.NET.  This has been compiled using best practices l ... [ read more ]
You can read Scott Guthrie's post about the URL Mapper's lack of RegEx support at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/14/430493.aspx and find Christopher Pietschmann's solution at http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/archive/2005/11/12/762.aspx
UK-based .NET CF MVP Andy Wigley gave an excellent (300 level, Event Code 1032284276) MSDN Webcast today on setting up mobile Website with ASP.NET 2.0, and that led me to rediscover these MSDN articles that might be of interest: Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGPractices0001.asp How To: Connect to SQL Server Using Windows Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft ... [ read more ]
A couple of weeks ago I installed the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005. But first, I ran the uninstall program that Microsoft provided. The Readme for VS 2005 lists the steps you need to take, but also provides a link to the uninstall program which purports to do the uninstall for you. I ran that first and then installed VS, on both my desktop and laptop. Both computers have had pre-release versions, including Beta 2 and the Release Candidate (aka RC). The installs ran fine and everything se ... [ read more ]
  Pleased to announce that the Visual Basic 2005 Language Specification is now live and available here . Also, be sure to check out Ken Levy’s channel9 interview of S. Somasegar , the Vice President of the Developer Division, where he talks about none other than our favorite language – VB. -Amanda    
What goes around, comes around.  Microsoft steals Anders Hejlsberg  as C# chief architect; Borland picks up former Microsoft developer divison honcho Tod Nielsen as CEO. Admittedly not an apples-for-apples comparison, i.e. development vs. marketing, but it is interesting none-the-less. Given his tenure at MS' devdiv, I'd be surprised it Tod doesn't do a good job of making Borland a developer tools powerhouse once again. This weblog is sponsored by Xtras.Net and XDN Professio ... [ read more ]
Yesterday when I blogged about simplicity  I forgot to mention Clayton Christensen 's take on simple technology. Clayton's ground-breaking book was entitled " The Innovator's Dilemma " and is a must-read for any developer who wants to understand the business dynamics between market incumbency and innovative uses of technology. From his extensive research Christensen states in The Innovator's Dilemma that disruptive innovations are almost never the r ... [ read more ]
You may have already noticed this, but the current build of MSDN2 has a bug in the way it colors VB code snippets, as you can see here (scroll down, there are quite a few problems in the code snippet coloring, see how many you can spot!)... turns out the code wasn't handling comments right, text in quotes, and it didn't have a full list of the VB keywords (so MsgBox was not recognized, for example). I've fixed it all up now (I think) so that code will work its way through review and test the ... [ read more ]


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