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Wednesday, Nov 6, 2002, 12:33 PM in .NET
Essential .NET, by Don Box, in stock!
Here. According to the AW web site, Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, is in stock and ships within 24 hours, and Amazon seems to agree. Enjoy!
Wednesday, Nov 6, 2002, 3:36 AM in .NET
Beta 2 of the Microsoft .NET Speech SDK
Here. From Razvan Caciula: Microsoft announced the availability of beta 2 of the Microsoft .NET Speech Software Development Kit (SDK).
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002, 7:54 PM in .NET
Rotor 1.0 Released
Here. "The 1.0 release builds and runs on Windows XP, the FreeBSD operating system, and Mac OS X 10.2. In addition, the release contains many bug fixes, more documentation, new samples and additional test suites." For low-level .NET weenies (like me : ), this is the stuff, baby!
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002, 12:38 PM in .NET
Project Mono Does SQL / Windows / ASP.NET
Here. From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono can now execute SQL statements on MS SQL Server through TDS and has a bit of Windows.Forms code running on both Linux and Windows as well as a good deal of ASP.NET support. Looks like things are coming along at a decent rate.
Friday, Nov 1, 2002, 12:33 AM
Code that begets code
Here. From cn: "Chris Sells, who actually created a code generation product, was unable to convince me of the importance of code generation. Why did one of my friends succeed where the other failed?" Rebuttal, please?
Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, 6:01 PM in .NET
New Editor for ORA's .NET DevCenter
Here. Shawn's a long-time friend of mine and an excellent writer who understands the importance of story, even for technical pieces. Congrats, Shawn!
Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, 1:30 PM
MMC Snapin Framework
Here. I don't know if this is new or not, but it's new to me and I know that .NET folks need to know how to plug into MMC. Jim Murphy, of Attila fame, has the solution.
Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, 2:26 AM
Borland Investigating Mono for Kylix
Here. From jt: "Borland is investigating use of Ximian Inc's Project Mono in Kylix, as a possible means for Windows developers to move .NET applications to Linux."
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 12:31 PM
Mindreef SOAPscope Public Beta 2 Available
Here. "SOAPscope is designed to help diagnose problems developing XML Web Services by logging message traffic and helping you find problems with the SOAP messages and WSDL." Mindreef did a very cool demo of their diagnostics tools at the DevCon and it was a big hit. Recommended.
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:44 AM in .NET
Pet Shop 2.0: Java vs. .NET
Here. The Middleware Company ran a comparison between the Pet Shop v2.0 application for both Java and .NET, both with the same features and both with the same aim at building something to use as a "best practice" sample while still being as responsive and scalable as possible. Pet Shop v2.0 was both company's attempt at winning the comparision run by the Middleware Company. My reading of this report is that .NET kicked Java's hinder in every single measure, from through-put and responsiveness to lines of code and lines of configuration required to build and run the app.
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:43 AM
Sun to join web services group
Here. "SUN Microsystems looks set to take a seat on the Web Services Interoperability forum, after almost two years of argy-bargy with founding members Microsoft and IBM." The more folks involved in making web services work, the better I like it. Wahoo!
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:43 AM in .NET
X-Code .NET: writing code with code for .NET
Here. "X-Code .NET is a successor to the popular "X-Code" codegen language, which was included as part of the excellent-but-now-defunct product from DevelopMentor known as Gen
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:43 AM
A Giant Sucking Sound
Here. NAFTA isn't the only one causing jobs to migrate. Microsoft is doing it, too.
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:42 AM
Creating Non-Rectangular Windows
Here. "It's possible to change the shape of the form by making parts completely transparent. One way to do this is with the TransparencyKey property, which designates a color to use to mark transparent pixels. When a pixel on the form is supposed to be drawn with the transparent key color, that pixel will instead be removed from the form, both in the sense that the pixel will not be drawn over whatever is behind it and that clicking on that spot on the form will actually cause the click to happen on what's underneath." This is a little exerpt from the book about using WinForms to do non-rectangular forms and hit-testing.
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, 11:42 AM in .NET
Visual Studio .NET Info Center
Here. If you've got a VS.NET question, I'm now the official SearchVB site's VS.NET "expert", which seems strange on a site with "VB" in the title, but .NET is about language-neutrality, after all. : )