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Books Written by Brian Nantz |
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A great overview into Refactoring tools in Visual Studio.Net. |
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10/23/2003
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A great overview into Refactoring tools in Visual Studio.Net. I have used the Resharper and think it is good. I had a very large project that was also under integrated source control. I had performance problems when opening the project. But I liked how Resharper changed the color schemes in the designer and the little things like that. Then the code analysis was pretty impressive
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Here a C# IDE, there a C# IDE, Everywhere a C# IDE. |
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10/20/2003
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Visual Studio.Net Powertoys are really expanding. The groups on gotdotnet have really done a great job. I am hooked on the SystemWindow and the Online Search. After seeing the demos of what is supported in VS.Net Whidbey, there are some really cool features coming down the line. Some of these features, like refactoring, will probably make it into SharpDevelop before Whidbey releases. Borland recently announced a C#Builder IDE and a personal version is available for free for non-commercial use (?), but I think SharpDevelop is better. Of course Eclipse has a C# plug-in but it is not very good. I like EMac’s plug-in better. In my opinion, all of these IDEs are a bit behind the times compared to IntelliJ IDEA. To my delight, Jet Brains has announced that they will create a C# IDE. It is a great time to be a .Net developer!
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Here a C# IDE, there a C# IDE, Everywhere a C# IDE. |
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10/20/2003
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Visual Studio.Net Powertoys are really expanding. The groups on gotdotnet have really done a great job. I am hooked on the SystemWindow and the Online Search. After seeing the demos of what is supported in VS.Net Whidbey, there are some really cool features coming down the line. Some of these features, like refactoring, will probably make it into SharpDevelop before Whidbey releases. Borland recently announced a C#Builder IDE and a personal version is available for free for non-commercial use (?), but I think SharpDevelop is better. Of course Eclipse has a C# plug-in but it is not very good. I like EMac’s plug-in better. In my opinion, all of these IDEs are a bit behind the times compared to IntelliJ IDEA. To my delight, Jet Brains has announced that they will create a C# IDE. It is a great time to be a .Net developer!
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The dynamic duo of tools to track down dll problems. |
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By host on
10/9/2003
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Recently I had to track down why a friend was having a problem with their computer. Things seemed to be running well and the person was pretty knowledgeable about computers and Windows, so I was at a loss. In tracking down the problem (which ended up being that Windows 2000 SP 4 & Windows XP SP1 are shipping older dlls than previously available hotfixes) I found two tool to be priceless: Depends and the MS DLL Help Database. Although I knew of depends and had heard of the MS website, I hadn’t seen the light of their usefulness until now! In doing what I thought would be a small favor turned into a big job. But in trying to help someone else, I actually learned something so in a way was helped by the very person I was trying to help.
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Web Services without IIS! |
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By host on
9/22/2003
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One of the biggest advantages of the MS Pub Summit was the direct contact with the MS engineers, or program managers or whatever they call them these days! J While sitting around discussing the possibility of an XML .Net book, Dare Obasanjo (Program Manager - WebData XML) made a funny comment about so many web standards. His favorite one (fictitious of course – well I think anyway J ) is WS-LetsGoOutToLunch. I thought he was being a little extreme after all I could probably count on my hands the number of Web Service Standards. After reading this MSDN article I see what he means! I hadn’t been to the WS-I web site recently. I remember hearing Yasser and Scott talking at the Web Services Devcon East about securing the domain name and now look at it!
I guess Bill Gates and Steve Mills gave a symbolic demo of a Federated transaction. I was first introduced to this concept at RSA 2002 when a similar sounding demo was showing federation with just the XML Security Standards. This is where I saw the p
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More on Application Blocks |
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By host on
9/21/2003
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At the MS Pub Summit, the MS Patterns & Practices team gave a talk. It was very interesting as I have already blogged about their Application Blocks. What I found was that they desire community input on the Application Block on GotDotNet. I thought this comes as close as MS has come to an Open Source mindset. Hopefully these blocks will form a stable base for .Net development that I can point people to.
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Whats new in version 2! |
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By host on
9/16/2003
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Yesterday’s presentations were all over the board. I think seeing so many presentations will help me with my upcoming training class. The stuff coming up in Yukon SQL Server is amazing. I have some Bits but I had no idea what I was looking at! There are some great VS.Net features and long needed enhancements to ADO.Net and System.Xml all coming in version 2.0. But by far the big story is Yukon.
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.Net 2.0 is the answer. |
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By host on
9/16/2003
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I was a little skeptical of a 3 hour presentation on ASP.Net 2.0 this morning. All I can say is WOW! 3 hours was not enough. Scott Guthrie and the ASP.Net team have taken ASP.Net farther than I ever dreamed possible.
The rest of the day was an overview of C#, VB.Net and C++.Net. In .Net 1.0 & 1.1, C# and VB.Net were almost identical in syntax and feature set and C++ went through some sort of a mid-life crisis. With .Net 2.0, the languages are getting their personalities back with killer features that make a language choice something to seriously think about. I developed mainly in C++ until I started UI’s and I switch into a lot of VB and since the tech preview of .Net I have been exclusively using C#. So I saw major benefits to each language and I am going to have to adopt a multi-personality type approach to .Net 2.0 development to explore all of the innovative functionality.
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First day @ the Microsoft Publisher Conference |
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By host on
9/15/2003
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Yesterday at the Microsoft Publisher Conference I met several interesting authors and programmers. I spent most of the day with Christolph Wille from Austria. He is the project manager for the excellent SharpDevlop project. He introduced me to the new SQL Reporting Services and a ton of new features soon to be in #develop like language conversion, nprof & refactoring. I introduced him to Vanilla Coke, which apparently is not widely available in Europe yet. As much as I like Vanilla Coke, I think I got the better end of the deal.
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BarcodeXML anyone? |
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By host on
9/11/2003
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As part of an Identification Badge program that I was asked to write here at Security International, I needed to support printing both Magnetic Stripes and Barcodes on an ID card. I wanted a Barcode library that was written entirely in C#, came with source, no runtime license of course and not too expensive. Sound Impossible? Well I found one that I liked at Mabry that met all of those conditions! I haven’t tried compiling it on any other CLI implementation yet, but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work on say the SSCLI. I reworked the code a little bit adding a number of things including XML serialization. This made me wonder why there is no standard for XML Barcodes. I did some searching and found Krysalis a Java based Open Source project that confirmed I was of course not the first to think XML Barcodes would be useful. If there are specific standards for things like MathML, then I think BarcodeXML is certainly not outlandish and probably more useful.
Think of the usefulness of Barcode
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