Winterdom

Sam Gentile put up a great comment yesterday on Multi-paradigm design and generic programming, which I found spot on in several ways. My current work is all pure C#, which, I admit, I like as a language. However, I still miss working with C++ and the power it gave me,...

There's been quite a bit of talk about Code Generators lately. Now, personally, I think some kinds of code generation are great, if somewhat misused sometimes. However, I got a chuckle this weekend out of Paul DiLascia's ".NET GUI Bliss" article on MSDN Magazine, where he says "An important corollary...

I've been hearing about ActiveState's Visual XSLT tool quite a bit, and I was quite intrigued by it, but never found the time to give it a through test. This weekend finally the opportunity presented itself, so I downloaded the trial version and gave it a go. Well, I must...

I've just uploaded an updated version of my MemoryMapped Files implementation for .NET, which is just a wrapper around some of the MMF Win32 APIs. This version fixes a couple of bugs that were present (thanks to Stephan Wolf for picking one of them up!), adds full support for IDisposable...

I just unpacked and installed an extra 256MB module on my Notebook (a Compaq Presario 2800), bringing it to 512MB. I got my memory from Crucial, which is a very nice site to buy memory from, as they have good prices and delivered fast! I would've gone for a full...

I've continued my exploration of the .NET Framework tools. Today, the time came for SoapSuds.exe and MgmtClassGen.exe. The first one is interesting, because SoapSuds.exe is simply a driver around a couple of classes called SoapSudsCode and SoapSudsArgs. Now, that by itself isn't anything out of the ordinary. What is interesting,...

Just out of curiosity, I decided to sniff around and see how Regscvs.exe does it's work to register an assembly in a COM+ application. While this information is probably not very useful to anyone, I'm posting here a few interesting snippets of what I found: Regsvcs is just a driver...

Scott Hanselman says: " I've always loved GUIs...I've run GEOS on a C64...". Boy, does that bring back memories! I just loved my old C64 and GEOS was certainly quite impressive...

Here's two features of COM+ 1.5 in XP and Win.NET Server that I think has great potential: Being able to run COM+ server applications as Windows Services. Couple this with the IProcessInitializer interface, and quite a few new possibilites open up!

Peter's mention of the Multi University/Research Laboratory Seminar Series reminded me of the tools I liked using when researching things around back in college (well, I still use them, even though I have no current academic interest :)). Anyway, my two favourites are: The ACM Portal to the ACM digital...