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Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002, 11:46 PM
Samples Chapters from the Web Services Implementation Guide
Here. From Stanford Powers: Getting value from stuff you don't own is a compelling idea. Just think, someone else has created something that has value, and has made it available to you. You can now leverage its value in ways that makes all parties richer. That's the promise of web services. Architag Press, a division of Architag International Corporation, announces the publication of Web Services Implementation Guide, Volume 1: Getting Started, by Brian E. Travis and Mae Ozkan.
Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002, 7:31 PM in .NET
.NET FxCop Updated to Version 1.072
Here. What's new: "1) UI updated (i.e. exclude tracking info, bold `new' violations, application settings +more) 2) nearly every rule has been touched, most improved 3) addition of 40+ new rules 4) cmd-line version of tool greatly stabilized and improved 5) new, complete set of documentation" [Maciek Sarnowicz via Off Topic]
Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002, 5:15 PM in .NET
Mastering Visual Studio .NET sample chapters
Here. "Mastering Visual Studio .NET, by Jon Flanders and Chris Sells "Most developers can perform the basics inside Visual Studio .NET, like creating a project, typing some code, compiling and debugging. Although Mastering Visual Studio .NET covers these topics, it does so very quickly. This book enables intermediate and advanced programmers the kind of depth that's really needed, such as advanced window functionality, macros, advanced debugging, and add-ins, etc. With this book, developers will learn the VS.NET development environment from top to bottom."
Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002, 12:38 AM in .NET
Visual C++ 7 speed vs Visual C# speed
Here. "I did a rough experiment the other day with strange results. I created two console apps one is C# and the other if Visual C++ 7. The apps do calculations for Generation of the Mandelbrot Set and time how long it takes. The strange thing is that the Visual C# App is much faster than the C++ App. (1.5 secs per set for the C# App and 1.9 secs per set for the C++ App). This seems totally bizarre to me as I would have thought it would be the opposite. It puts me in the strange situation of thinking about rewritting my C++ fractal generator in C# to get more speed !!" [Windows Technology Off Topic Mailing List]
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002, 10:59 AM
Tim Ewald Finally Gets a Home Page!
Here. My good friend, Tim Ewald, finally gets a home page, and I have to hear about it on the streets! : ) [pocketsoap.com/weblog]
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002, 10:12 AM
My Chris Sells Is A Centerfold!
Here. sttto Centerfold by J. Geils Band Yes, he walks, yes, he talks! He'll be your Code Complete! That ATL instructor Sure could put 'em in the seats. He could teach like no one else No one could ever stain The memory of that DM guy Could never cause me pain Years go by, I'm lookin' through a codin' magazine And there's my DM buddy on the pages in between! [Ted Neward]
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002, 9:42 AM
Internet Security Checker for Win2K
Here. "The CIS Scoring Tool provides a quick and easy way to evaluate your host systems and compare their level of security against the Benchmarks. Tool reports guide system administrators to harden both new installations and active production systems. The tool is also effective for monitoring systems to assure that security settings continuously conform with the Benchmark." [W2Knews]
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002, 2:06 AM in Fun
My Chris Sells Is A Centerfold!
sttto Centerfold by J. Geils Band (http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/jgeilsband.htm)
Yes, he walks, yes, he talks!
He'll be your Code Complete!
That ATL instructor
Sure could put 'em in the seats.
He could teach like no one else
No one could ever stain
The memory of that DM guy
Could never cause me pain
Years go by, I'm lookin' through a codin' magazine
And there's my DM buddy on the pages in between!
CHORUS:
My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
Instructor is the centerfold,
Chris Sells is the centerfold
(Repeat)
Shipped me code 'bout ActiveX,
While I was thinkin' about GenX
IUnknown, IDispatch,
He could teach 'em all
I was shakin' in my shoes
Whenever he flashed those baby-blues
Something had a hold on me
Whenever Chris passed by
That book and cool code samples
Too magical to touch
To see him in that photograph,
Is really just too much!
CHORUS
It's okay I understand
This ain't no never never land
I hope that when this issue's gone
This memory will TOO be gone
Take your car, yes we will
We'll take your car and drive it
We'll take it to a motel room
And leave you there, in private!
A part of me has just been ripped
The pages from my mind are stripped
Oh no, I can't deny it
Oh yea, guess I gotta try it!
CHORUS
Copyright (c) 2002 Anonymous. :-)
Ted Neward [tneward@JAVAGEEKS.COM]
private mailing list
Tue 7/30/2002 2:06 AM
Saturday, Jul 27, 2002, 11:36 AM in .NET
ASP.NET state management with style (& attributes)
Here. Now *this* is the way that state should be managed in ASP.NET!
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 7:25 PM in .NET
VS.NET Update
Here. From Michael Weinhardt: "Microsoft plans to deliver this fall a minor update to its Visual Studio.Net suite of development tools, said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Microsoft's developer and platform evangelism."
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 3:08 PM in Tools
Beta-2 of Nunit 2.0 is available
Here. "Some of the highlights of the new release include the following: "- Attribute based mechanism for specifying test and test fixtures. "- New Forms Interface that displays Tests and TestSuites in an Explorer like fashion. The interface allows you to run individual tests and/or suites from the forms interface. "- Automatic construction of suites based on namespaces. Just provide an assembly and the test runner constructs a suite of all TestFixtures in the assembly. "- Minimal amount of effort to upgrade due to inclusion of a backwards compatibility class called TestCase and the framework also looks for methods that begin with "test" regardless of case as it did in the past. "- XML output from the console program." [DOTNET-PRODUCTS]
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 2:49 PM in .NET
.NET HandleCollector source and sample
Here. "Basically the class keeps track of the list of outstanding handles, and when it reaches a certain threshold it can force a GC. Basically the goal here is to do a cheap and easy extension to the GC to try and teach it about the relative expensive of unmanaged objects." This is the way that GDI+ deals with unmanaged resource reclamation and can be used for your own non-memory resources.
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 1:12 PM in Tools
Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Beta
Here. "The primary purpose of the tool is to be able to quickly detect node-level changes between versions of an XML document, and with enough granularity to support efficient patch and merge scenarios. The patch format can be used for fairly terse delta-encoding to transfer incremental changes across the wire as well. The tool is officially called "XmlDiff and Patch" and is implemented in managed code (sorry, no MSXML version). Currently you can only perform XML Diff through the web page, but the assembly should be available on that site very soon. I think it is considerably better than anything else available today, in terms of both performance and accuracy, and the API is a good fit with the System.Xml libraries, so it should be really easy for any VB/J#/C#/F# programmers to use." [netcrucible.com/blog]
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 10:57 AM in .NET
The Rotor Architecture Revisited
Here. "Microsoft's Rotor project, recently refreshed on June 25, 2002, includes source code for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) execution engine and frameworks, as well as compilers and other developer tools. The Rotor code can be used, modified, and re-distributed, for non-commercial experimentation, as a basis for courseware or lab projects, or as a guide to those who are developing their own CLI implementations under a simple shared-source license." [radio.weblogs.com/0105852/]
Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, 10:55 AM in .NET
George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ
Here. "Welcome to the Windows Forms FAQ. Questions & Answers in this FAQ are from newsgroup posts, various mailing lists and the employees of Syncfusion. I have tried to mention the source wherever I could." George is a long-time colleague of mine at DevelopMentor as well as the chief author on MFC Internals, which spawned ATL Internals. [radio.weblogs.com/0105852/]