You've reached the internet home of Chris Sells, who has a long history as a contributing member of the Windows developer community. He enjoys long walks on the beach and various computer technologies.
Friday, Jan 17, 2003, 8:01 AM
Oracle 9i: The Reality Behind The Marketing Messag
Here. From Matt Hollingsworth: The Reality Behind Oracle9i, High Availability, Scalability, Security, Manageability, Programmability, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, against Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Thursday, Jan 16, 2003, 12:53 PM in .NET
25 silly reasons why .NET is better than java
Here. From Hun Boon Teo: This is just for a laugh, don't take it seriously. Alternatively access it at http://www.geocities.com/hunboonteo/misc/silly.htm . Regards.
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, 9:02 PM
Thanks, Chris
Here. From Husein Choroomi: To Chris! Thank you very very much. To WinDevelopers & .NETters! I recommend the experience to anyone that wants to know professional technique and esoteric possibilities of .NET!
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, 12:00 AM in Fun
What OS is Chris?
Chris took the quiz and was pretty darn happy with the results, because at at least he's not Windows ME...
Monday, Jan 13, 2003, 5:50 PM
nogoop ActiveX/COM Inspector 1.1.10 released
Here. From Francis Upton: The ActiveX/COM Inspector allows you to inspect and execute any ActiveX control. It works with controls and typelibs, automatically showing the documentation associated with classes and members. Quickly find out how a control behaves using event logging, a visual design surface, method execution and property inspection. Use it to help understand Automation interfaces (for example MS Office), and to help with developing Addins.
Monday, Jan 13, 2003, 12:47 PM in .NET
.NET Rocks Interview: .NET Success Stories
Here. "This is the first of a series of shows we are going to do this year highlighting .NET Success Stories; companies that have implemented .NET applications successfully as either pilot projects or production projects. In this show we hear from two different companies." It's stories like this that are going to finally turn the masses away from the unmanaged world to the managed world. And they'll never, ever want to go back...
Monday, Jan 13, 2003, 7:19 AM in .NET
ASP.NET: Blackbelt Web Form Programming
Here. From Vaclav Novak: Push your ASP.NET Web Forms to the extreme. This session focuses on advanced tips and tricks for ASP.NET page development, including UI that morphs based on the data it displays, dynamic templates, passing values from page to page, adding client events to server controls, and more. Assumes a basic understanding of ASP.NET pages and controls.
Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, 11:39 PM in .NET
Dynamic Aspect-Weaving with .NET
Here. From Hun Boon Teo: Another research paper from Wolfgang Schult and Andreas Polze, part of abstract: "Within this paper, we focus on dynamic management of aspect information during program runtime. We introduce a new approach called "dynamic aspect weaving" to interconnect aspect code and functional code. Using our approach, it is possible to decide at runtime whether objects living inside a compoent should be instantiated with support for a particular aspect or not. We have implemented our approach in contect of the langauge C# and the Microsoft .NET environment."
Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, 11:29 PM in .NET
Aspect-Oriented Programming with C# and .NET
Here. From Hun Boon Teo: A research paper from two German scholars, part of the abstract: "Within this paper, we discuss the usage of aspectoriented programming techniques in context of the .NET framework. We focus on the fault-tolerance aspect and discuss the expression of non-functional component properties (aspects) as C# custom attributes. Our approach uses reflection to generate replicated objects based on settings of a special “fault-tolerance” attribute for C# components."
Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, 12:25 PM
An entire site dedicated to connection strings!
Here. "The idea of connectionstrings.com is to provide an easy reference for connectionstrings. All connection string and enumeration info are collected from other internet sites, books, helpfiles, Microsoft msdn, etc." Holy cow! An entire site of just connection string examples! Cool! [John Bristowe: radio.weblogs.com/0112381]
Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, 12:20 PM in .NET
25 pathetic attempts to make .NET look bad
Here. I just like to read JasonW, but this one was particularly nice. He refutes some pretty wild claims from one member of the Java community. Along these same lines, I spent a day of onsite consulting having a .NET vs. Java debate. I was the outsider .NET guy and the company already had three Java guys already on staff (one was the VP of Engineering). Needless to say, .NET won. : ) It boiled down to what to do with the existing ATL/COM/C++ code base and the .NET interop story wins there hands down.
Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, 12:10 PM in .NET
What's New in VS.NET 2003
Here. A somewhat wordy list of what's new in VS.NET 2003. It figures that just after I'd learned to use the Designer for event handling that MS would add C# "code spitting" for the override keyword and the delegate += operator...
Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, 1:43 AM in .NET
.NET ResourceExplorer
Here. In writing the resources chapter of my WinForms book, I found that there was no single utility for displaying the resource contents of assemblies, .resx files and .resource files (even embedded .resources files) in a way that made sense to me. So, I built one. Enjoy.
Friday, Jan 10, 2003, 9:13 PM in .NET
Jeff Key's .NET Samples
Here. I just stumpled onto a set of very cool .NET samples from Jeff Key and *had* to share them. There are too many cool things to pick a favorite.
Friday, Jan 10, 2003, 12:00 AM in Tools
.NET ResourceExplorer
In writing the resources chapter of my WinForms book, I found that there was no single utility for displaying the resource contents of assemblies, .resx files and .resource files (even embedded .resources files) in a way that made sense to me. So, I built one and called it ResourceExplorer.
ResourceExplorer is very simple and could stand some extension to show specific resources at images, text, data, etc, but it certainly served my needs, especially when it came to understanding the usage and limitations of the ResourceReader (for reading .resources files) and the ResXResourceReader (for reading .resx files). Enjoy.