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Monday, May 20, 2002, 1:28 PM
Reflections on "A New Kind of Science"
"In his remarkable new book, Stephen Wolfram asserts that cellular automata operations underlie much of the real world. He even asserts that the entire Universe itself is a big cellular-automaton computer. But Ray Kurzweil challenges the ability of these ideas to fully explain the complexities of life, intelligence, and physical phenomena."
Monday, May 20, 2002, 10:48 AM in .NET
.Net Data Provider for PostgreSQL Announced
"Npgsql .Net Data Provider for PostgreSQL. It is written entirely in C#. This data provider supports the version 2.0 of PostgreSQL protocol.
"It is in a very early stage. For now, just the connect/disconnect functionality is working. It parses and validate the connection string and makes the connection.
"Any help, suggestion, recommendation is welcome."
Saturday, May 18, 2002, 10:38 PM in .NET
JasonW on Rotor (very cool!)
"With over 9,000 files, and including some 1300 public classes to pore through, the Shared Source CLI can teach you quite a bit about the internal workings of the CLR. But the sheer amount of source code included can make just starting your exploration a monumental task. This article discusses some of the things you can learn from the source code facsimile of the CLR, like how JIT compilation works. It will also help you understand how to control execution along with debugging and loading classes. A walk through the steps involved in setting up the runtime will let you become familiar with the process."
Saturday, May 18, 2002, 6:32 PM in Fun
Waka Waka Poem
First, the poem itself (there are many versions, this is just one):
<> ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * <> ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , system halted
In English, this reads:
waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
bang splat equal at dollar under-score
percent splat waka waka tilda number four
ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma crash
Serdar Kilic
win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com
Sat 5/18/2002 6:32 PM
Friday, May 17, 2002, 12:40 PM in .NET
XML Comments Let You Build Docs from C# Source
"C# allows developers to embed XML comments into their source files—a useful facility, especially when more than one programmer is working on the same code. The C# parser can expand these XML tags to provide additional information and export them to an external document for further processing. This article shows how to use XML comments and explains the relevant tags. The author demonstrates how to set up your project to export your XML comments into convenient documentation for the benefit of other developers. He also shows how to use comments to generate help files. "
Friday, May 17, 2002, 12:34 PM in .NET
Data Binding in Windows Forms Applications
Dino expounds on a subject near and dear to my heart -- databinding in WinForms.
Friday, May 17, 2002, 12:00 AM in Tools
.NET XsdClassesGen
XsdClassesGen is a Custom Tool Add-In to VS.NET 2002 & 2003 to generate type-safe wrapper classes for serializing to and from XML documents. It takes as input an XSD and produces the C# or VB.NET code to do the serialization using the XmlSerializer. This is really just the output of running xsd.exe /classes, but integrated directly into VS.NET.
If you'd like to know more about what a custom tool is and how to build your own, check out CollectionGen.
Also, Atif Aziz used some of my custom tool code and built a generic VS.NET code generator shim that allows you to build a code generator that plugs into VS.NET by implementing a single method.
And, as if that weren't enough, Stephane Tombeur has posted the code to VS2005. Thanks, Stephane!
Thursday, May 16, 2002, 10:54 AM
HowTo emulate the behavior of the explorer shell
From Razvan Caciula: Nick Hodapp publishes an interesting ActiveX Control Library (ATL) giving you the permission to include it in a commercial application. Cool work, Nick :)
Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 11:55 AM
The Han Solo Affair
"Star Wars: The Han Solo Affair is the new film from Spite Your Face Productions, produced for The Lego Group. and developed with the cooperation of Lucasfilm. The stop-motion animated LEGO short presents an 'alternative' version of the events which follow Han Solo's capture in The Empire Strikes Back."
I laughed 'til I cried.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 11:25 PM in .NET
Fujitsu NetCOBOL™ for .NET Ready To Ship
Don't miss COBOL for .NET!
"NetCOBOL ™ opens doors to leverage existing COBOL code while taking advantage of the innovative Microsoft .NET platform."
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 2:26 PM in .NET
SQL Server Centric .NET Code Generator
"SQL Server Centric .NET Code Generator (code named OlyMars) is both a flexible and powerful code generator based on database modeling.
"It allows instant generation of both SQL and .Net code providing a complete library of stored procedures, .NET classes and ready-to-use Windows/Web form controls (including associated documentation).
"SQL Server Centric .NET Code Generator is also fully extensible to use one's own custom templates and consequently can be adjusted to generate any custom code respecting a homogeneous implementation scheme within the company (can be written either in VB .NET or C# .NET)."
This seems to have punted on the multi-language issues, however. sigh.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 4:46 AM in .NET
.NET ANY where, ANY time and on ANY device
From Razvan Caciula:
"The objective for the iNET development team is to re-create the complete .NET deployment framework entirely in Java."
"For instance with iNET, corporations can deploy .NET based applications integrated with a J2EE server hosted completely on an IBM mainframe and/or Linux instead of Windows."
Anyone has used this mixture? :)
Monday, May 13, 2002, 12:35 PM
Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"
From the publisher's summary of A New Kind of Science:
"This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments—illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics—Stephen Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe."
Monday, May 13, 2002, 12:23 PM in .NET
C# samples to customize the WebBrowser control
C# samples by Ted Faison of hosting the WebBrowser control and using ICustomDoc, IDocHostUIHandler and IDocHostShowUI to "achieve complete control over WebBrowser."
Monday, May 13, 2002, 7:55 AM in .NET
Generics for C# and CLR
From Razvan Caciula: You have all here about parametric polymorphism in the CLR using an extended version of C#.