Winterdom

My good friend Sam has now become Chief .NET Architect at Adesso. Congratulations, my friend! It is well deserved :) P.S: Sorry for not congratulating you sooner, I've just been up to my neck with things at work! :( </p>

One of the features I'm liking more in C++/CLI is Trivial Properties: #using using namespace System; ref class X { public: property int Value; }; int main() { X^ x = gcnew X(); x->Value = 4; Console::WriteLine("Value is {0}", x->get_Value()); } </code></pre></p> Pure syntactic-sugar, but saves a lot of typing...</p>...

WTL (Windows Template Library) has now been released in an Open Source project at SourceForge. Cool!

Way cool. No need to say anything more.

Definitely a good read. Raises quite a few interesting questions!

The BizTalk Server 2004 schema mapping (transformation) facilities are used to transform a document instance from one schema into a new document with a different one (it also supports 1-* and *-1 and *-* transformations). The underlying transformation engine is the XSLT transformation engine. It is generally believed that the...

Blake Stone, former CTO of Borland, now works as an Architect at Microsoft in the Visual Studio Core Team.

So here am I on the road again. I'm posting this from my hotel in Bogota (they actually have wireless internet access in every room. Cool!), and if everything goes as planned, I'll be tomorrow night in Redmond, WA, for the second time in two weeks. This time, I'm attending...

Microsoft has just released the Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit: A free download containing the full C/C++ optimizing compiler and the static linking CRT and standard C++ library (with STL). In other words, all the basic command line tools for building actual applications with full optimizations. This is a great adition...

I've just been scratching the surface of all the new cool things coming down in Whidbey, but one thing that struck me as very useful right away was the fact that in the XML Stack, XPathDocument is now an editable concept, with the help of XPathEditableNavigator. Way cool!.