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Books Written by Brian Nantz |
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One of the best kept secrets in .Net development. |
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1/31/2005
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One of the best kept secrets in .Net development is the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group. I think when Visual Studio .Net Team System comes out more people will realize what great input this group has had at Microsoft. I have already talked about their Application Blocks and how I like them (although there are good Open Source alternatives as well like Log4Net and Nini). But I have found that most of my Consulting Clients prefer and are more comfortable with Microsoft stuff. Fine with me! Well they just released 2 great new products first the Enterprise Library (which is the combination of the most commonly used application bocks as well as many needed updates to the app blocks) here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp). They also have a new web site (http://patternshare.org/). To get some of the vision of the group check out the two interviews (Ron Jacobs and Ward Cunningham) on one of my favorite websites http://www.theserverside.net/talks/in
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A glimpse into MS C# developement. |
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1/28/2005
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Brad Abrams (a great blog to read) has posted some of Microsoft's Internal Coding Guidelines (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/articles/361363.aspx). I am very confussed with Microsoft right not for this reason. As a consultant I get asked a lot “Which langauge is better?” To which I reply there is only one langague: IL. It doesn't matter or does it. It is true each language has its pluses and minuses. For instance, VB.Net allows for Optional Parameters and C# doesn't and it is a whole lot easier to do late binding in VB.Net. That is good if your intent is to do late binding. That is bad if you use it all the time without thinking. Thread safety is a whole lot easier in C#. Everything I have seen coming out of MS is in C#: the BCL itself, Indigo, etc. So C# seems the loical choice right? Well if you are going to write VS.Net Macros guess what you can only do so in VB.Net. Also by default all Sql Reports in the new reporting product are in VB.Net. Now you can use C# in Reporting but it requires you
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Microsoft's Search Engine |
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1/27/2005
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It (http://search.msn.com/) has been out for a while, but yesterday I tried it and I like it. Don't know if I will be switching from google anytime soon though. I also found this (http://www.microsoftsearchengine.com/search/search.php) engine to be useful as well.
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware |
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By host on
1/26/2005
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I guess I am probably the last guy on the planet to find this but Microsoft is releasing a spyware tool. Download it here and try it out:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
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Everyone has caught the CLR bug. |
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1/19/2005
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During this long flu season I thought it was interesting that every major DB is jumping on the Embedded CLR idea. This of course is not a new idea, Embedded Java has been around for a while, but it is great news for .NET developers.
Oracle CLR support
DB2 CLR Support
PostGreSQL CLR Support
I would expect other vendors are not far behind (I wonder if Sybase will join the list!)
Now the question is how portable are these stored procedures. Somehow I don’t think they are going to be a portable as developers would like. I have done some work with MS SQL, PostgreSql and Oracle with ADO.NET and the providers make the code very portable. If only the Sprocs were as portable!
Other PostgreSql Information:
PostgreSQL .NET Data Provider
PostgreSql 8 supports Windows Natively
Good PostgreSql Links
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DOS will never die. |
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1/17/2005
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There are a lot of good reasons that the command prompt DOS shell will never die. I have over the years been pretty deep into DOS batch files but how easily I forgot things I don't use every day! Well here is a web site (http://www.onesmartclick.com/programming/batch-files.html) that I found that is pretty useful in remembering these cryptic commands. I'm going to try to dig up some of my old scripts to post as well to look back on.
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Another great free book |
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By host on
1/3/2005
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Apress has released Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop for free on their website. I know that this will be a great book and I look forward to reading it. Sharpdevelop and the other Open Source projects at www.icsharpcode.net are some of the best .NET open source around!
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XAML in action |
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12/29/2004
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XAML is becoming a reality much soon than I had anticipated. SVG seems to be going to the wayside in favor of XAML. I really think Xamalon is stepping up to the plate. They are providing the following new tools:
-SVG 2 XAML converter
-Windows Forms Edition
-Compact Edition
-Flash Edition
This is far beyond what I would have imagined for XAML support this early in the game. I think this company is a prime target for the MS acquisition team.
If you were waiting for a graphical editor to support Avalon here it is! It is even written using Avalon and looks very promising.
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Python for .NET |
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By host on
12/28/2004
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For you python fans out there - http://www.ironpython.com/
I always thought ActiveState would be working on a Python.Net compiler, but this one looks to target both .NET and Mono!
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Christoph's Blog |
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By host on
12/17/2004
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I have finally caught up with a guy who I really respect. I met Christoph Wille at a book conference at Microsoft and we had a lot in common with our interest in Open Source. Of course he is into it far more than I am but it is nice to read his web log and see what he is up to. I love blogs they are really changing the internet.
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