Winterdom

My copies of John Cough's "Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime" and Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" just arrived... Great!

Charles Cook on IL optmizations performed by the Managed C++ compiler: "I've not not seen any mention of this elsewhere. Maybe its just a rumour put about by the VC++ team :-)" Not at all, actually. The MC++ compiler does indeed run the generated code thorugh the backend optimizer, doing...

While commenting on an entry in Brad's blog, I said that I'd be interested in working on the CVS tasks for NAnt. Problem is, I don't really have much free time to do so, nor am I a CVS expert, and I've already got my hands full working on midl...

As most of you already know by now, the ASP.NET WebMatrix (formerly known as Saturn) technology preview was released a couple days ago. I downloaded it today and I must say I'm quite impressed by it! It's small, it's very fast, and seems to have some pretty cool features. As...

Drew: Regarding ResetableIterator, I'd certainly call it a flaw. It kind of defeats the purpose of having those nice abstract classes and interfaces in the first place. As for returning XPathNodeIterator instances from your extension functions, I had already tried it, and as you say, it sure works. My real...

I've added Brian Graf's System.Error.Emit blog to my links. Welcome Brian!

Here's something I wasn't expecting to see: How did The International Atomic Energy Agency website find its way into my referrer logs? ;)

I've been fooling around with execution of SQL Statement Batches using ADO.NET, using both the SqlClient and OleDb.NET client this week. In doing so, I ran into a slightlt misleading statement in the documentation for OleDbDataReader::RecordsAffected property. It says: "The RecordsAffected property is not set until all rows are read...

Drew on XSLT: "You can import and execute any .NET code you wanted to via extension objects.". It's a pretty cool technique. Playing with it a couple of weeks ago, however, I ran into a tight spot. As far as I can see, nowhere in the .NET XslTransform docs is...

Peter: "The number of mailing lists I'm on is getting completely out of hand... ". I second that. I'm already subscribed to 7 mailing lists or so, plus a fairly large set of newsgroups. It gets awfully hard sometimes to handle it all... </p> P.S.: I've been missing the dotnet...