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Monday, May 5, 2003, 10:31 AM
CodeSmith Takes Over For CollectionGen
Here. As of today, the functionality of CollectionGen has been sucked into Eric Smith's CodeSmith. I asked Eric to take on these features because CodeSmith does all of what CollectionGen does and more. All new feature requests/bug reports should go his way. Of course, feel free to continue to use CollectionGen as a model for VS.NET Custom Tools.
Monday, May 5, 2003, 9:49 AM
The Hundred-Year Language
Here. Paul gets a bit wordy, but I really like the idea that most of the concepts we use in our programming languages are optimizations. How much simpler would programming be if we could do away with things like the artificial distinction between arrays and strings?
Monday, May 5, 2003, 7:02 AM
Migrating
Here. From Carlos Aquino: Sometimes you have to upgrade to a better system, sometimes you have to change your plataform and sometimes you just want to try other methods. Find how you can migrate without a headache and sleepless nights.
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, 6:28 PM
MSDN Maiden of Order Gets A Blog
Here. If you care about where MSDN is going, you'll want to check out the new blog from Sara Williams, the Fountain of MSDN Justice (and my grandboss).
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, 3:41 PM in .NET
Reflector.NET Author Starts a Blog
Here. Lutz Roeder, the author of Reflector.NET, caves in and starts his blog. And what a way to start: he posts a decompiler plug-in for Reflection.NET. Welcome, Lutz.
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, 2:09 PM in Conference
Buzz About The DevCon
Here. In addition to the *mountain* of abstracts I've gotten (more than any DevCon to date), several bloggers have had things to say about the upcoming DevCon: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/30/133950/971#xmlroadtrip (includes a poll for his abstracts) http://www.larkware.com/Articles/TheDailyGrind62.html http://aspnetweblog.com/posts/6141.aspx http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/003064.shtml http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx#nn2003-04-28T06:42:55Z
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, 1:45 PM
Longhorn Audio/Video Info from WinHEC
Here. I'm an HTPC guy from way back, so this sounds cool to me. [ActiveWin.com]
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, 6:53 PM
Apple's Music Store Needed for the other 94%
I'm very much looking forward to either iTunes being available for Windows or someone else letting me purchase songs one at a time. In fact, as soon as that happens, my wife [ahem] owes the RIAA several hundred dollars in "back-fees" for "pre-downloaded" mp3s (she's always been very ahead of her time...)
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, 6:52 PM
RIAA to file swappers: Let's chat
Here. I take this as a sign that the RIAA is finally realizing what's going on. That is only goodness.
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, 2:09 PM
Comparing Security: Commercial S/W vs. Open Source
Here. Of course, David Chappel tends to appear at more MS-related events than not, so he's biased like the rest of the folks reading this post (well, maybe not as biased as some : ). However, he examines the 2001, 2002 and 2003 CERT Coordination Center's security advisory data and finds that things are definitely moving in the right direction for Windows folk(although not as fast as we'd like, of course).
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, 12:49 PM in .NET
Updated XsdClassesGen for VS.NET 2003
Here. I've updated XsdClassesGen for VS.NET 2003. For those of you unfamiliar with it (it's never been as popular as CollectionGen for some reason), XsdClassesGen is a VS.NET Custom Tool that generates C# or VB.NET wrapper class source code from an XSD. It's just like running xsd.exe from the command line, but integrated into VS.NET (which is where all tools belong, afaic).
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, 11:44 AM in .NET
Updated CollectionGen for VS.NET 2002 & 2003
Here. I've updated CollectionGen with code to support both VS.NET 2002 & 2003. It has no dependencies on any VS.NET design-time DLLs, so one binary works for both versions. If you're building custom tools, this should form a good base to support both environments.
Monday, Apr 28, 2003, 2:20 PM
Unifying Tables, Objects and Documents (XML)
Here. Wouldn't it be an interesting world if the three major data structure abstractions, i.e. relational data (tables), graphs (objects) and strict hierarchy (XML) were all first class citizens in the same language? I found this paper quite an mind-bender.
Monday, Apr 28, 2003, 11:16 AM in Conference
CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Applied XML DevCon 2003 West
Here. Tentatively schedule for July 10-11 in greater Portland, OR, the Applied XML DevCon needs your talks. If you want to speak on XML applied in novel forms, e.g. web services, interop, extensibility, Google hacks, replacement for more traditional data formats, RSS, hardware integration, blogging, or in any other fun, cool, fast or amazing way, let me know! I'm looking for sessions on things that you're actually doing or planning on doing with XML. Strict theoreticians need not apply. Send abstracts before 5/7 to csells@microsoft.com If you can think of another place, e.g. mailing list or blog, that would be appropriate for this announcement, please send it along.
Monday, Apr 28, 2003, 7:55 AM
Disaster Recovery
Here. From Carlos Aquino: Things goes wrong all the time, but a good administrator is always alert. On this site they have some documentations about how to avoid (and how to recover from) a disaster on your systems.