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Kit George on BitVector32 bug
Kit George, of Microsoft, responds to the BitVector32 bug that was posted about by Mattias Sjögren : " Just a note all: we are tracking this issue at Microsoft, and we do appreciate you taking the time to let us know…
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More active desktop
Doug Thews about his active desktop: "I thought you might be interested in knowing I posted some cool feature updates at: http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html "
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Log4net How-To
If you want to start instrumenting your application for tracing and debugging, log4net is a good tool. This article explains how to take your first steps to implement it inyour applications. Very nice.
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Cool product of the day: Mathematica.Net
.Net/Link ". NET/Link is a toolkit that integrates Mathematica and the Microsoft .NET Framework . It lets you call code written in any .NET-compatible language from Mathematica in a completely transparent way, and it…
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Must-have books for my new job
My new job asked me to give a list of books that I think would be needed, so I made this one: (note: some books are not here because they already have them) Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime…
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A chat with scoble
Robert Scoble tried to IM me the other day. I wasn’t at my computer, so all I saw when I returned to the machine a few hours later was “ If you’re around, ping me ”. My gut feeling told me that this had something to do…
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BitVector32 in the real world
A little known(and little documented) class in the framework is the System.Collections.Specialized.BitVector32 . It allows working easily with 32 bit integers, which are used extensively in optimized environments as a…
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Nice performance counters article
I was going to write an article about performance counters and their use in .Net, but then I found this very nice article on the subject.
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Weblogs@DotNetJunkies
I just subscribed to the DotNetJunkies Weblogs combined RSS feed, and you should too. Some interesting posts going on there. (via LarkWare )
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Yet another new tabbed browser? This one has some new features
Mark Brown sends word of a new breed of browser - using a visual tabbed interface. Some very cool stuff there. Perhps this could be the next buzz? It's called iRider . They have a nice flash demo on their site that is…
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Make your desktop show active RSS content
Doug Thews sent me this regarding the .net desktop contest: " After looking at some of your entries, I decided that I had to write my own ActiveDesktop in ASP.NET to consume RSS feeds and provide other information. I…
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Touch typing hell
I'm starting to try and learn touch typing again, and it's pretty damn hard. I'm actually doing it right now and it's horrible! and the teaching program is sooo boring! I'm a pretty fast typist, when I look at the…
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Your favorite add-in?
Have you voted for the best Visual Studio.Net add-in contest? Cast you vote here . What did I vote for? The Reflector Add-in of course. definitely the coolest tool and most useful I've seen yet. And it just got released…
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Vs.Net for presentations
Scott Hanselman points to a macro that should be useful for code presenters that allows chaning the font size in VS.NET to the appropriate presentation size. Cool. Another way to do this is by calling your VS.Net…
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Managed C++ performence vs. native C++
The user group meeting today went great. Very interesting stuff. We actually got to see all the stuff that the .Net framework installation installs on the target machine. Lot’s of goodies in there right out of the box.…
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PDC pricing continued
Scoble explains why the PDC costs so much, and adds to the reasons that make the PDC a cool event. I’ll just comment on the pricing, as I admit I totally wanna be there myself. And meet all the cool people. The pricing.…
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See you at the user group tonight (topic - CLR plumbing)
Hope to see you all tonight and the Israel Visual C++ user group meeting( note - anyone can go, you don't have to know C++ . the topic is great for anyone involved in .Net!) here's the info from the site: " Date:…
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We will not ship s#!*t
" We will not ship shit : words by Robert C. Martin." - posted by Lawrence @ 7/15/2003 11:55:25 AM
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Death to the double-click (a lesson in design)
Why do today's mice still have "Double Click" functionality? In terms of interaction design - its one of the worst forms of design ever created; You have one button which does different things at different…
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.Net articles on MSDNAA
Lots of great .Net articles over at MSDNAA (Hopefully one of mine will be published there real soon..)
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Cheer up Jeff. You can get the job you want
Sometimes life just throws one surprise at you after another, and sometimes these are not good surprises either. While I celebrated my new job, Jeff Julian discovered today that he'd been sacked , along with 15 other…
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Third prize found!
Patrick Steele just donated the third prize for the . Net desktops contest : The book Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET Thanks Patrick!
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The PDC is missing its target audience
Can anyone please enlighten me as to why the PDC costs so much(2000$ and upwards)? Let's take a look at their website and try to understand: ---------------------SNIP--------------------- Be one of the first to look…
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Vote for your favorite desktop at the .Net Desktops Contest
the .Net desktops contest is now closed for new submissions (you can add your desktop to the gallery once the contest is finished if you like). You can all go there now and vote for the best three desktops . The contest…
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More maintainable code(and others) lessons
In the past week or so I’ve been going over all my code with the new guy who’s going to replace my in my current job(Yeah, I’m about to leave, but that’s a whole different post). It's strange. I have done code reviews…
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A C# programmer's VB.Net starter kit
If you're a C# programmer wanting to learn how to speak VB.Net, Darrel Norton has some useful links to get started on that task, having started this quest on his own.
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Another brain killer from Chris Brumme
Oh dear. It looks like Chris Brumme posted another "post". This time it is regarding TransparentProxy and measures in at about 6,300 words. Oh well, there goes my evening....