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  • Ink-based designer - Now that's cool!

    This is so cool, a pen-based forms design tool for Visual Studio.Net. This was demo'ed in VSLive! and Shawn writes that they wowed a late-evening tired crowd. I ask who won't get wowed by such a tool, the dead ones are…

  • Use VB.NET functionality from within C#

    How: 1) Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic Runtime frim the ".NET" references menu 2) Add a Using directive : "using Microsoft.VisualBasic;" Voila! you have access to all of VB.NET's functionality, including…

  • Good news from Sam Gentile

    Good news! Heather's Home! [via Sam Gentile] I'm glad to hear it! *sigh of relief*.

  • Inside the Windows Deveopment Process

    Inside the Windows Deveopment Process A look at how Microsoft develops and maintains the Windows operating system. Fascinating reading for developers! Mike Johnson, Thursday, February 13, 2003 [via Chris Sells ]

  • Nice XProgramming retort

    Reading this Blog entry from CrazyBob brought a mixed feeling. The entry is an answer for a previous entry by Chiara and talks about why XProgramming is not totally stupid. At first, i just read Chieara's quoted Entry,…

  • Unbreakable Encryption Claims - revisited

    Bruce Schneier used Meganet and VME as a leading example of snake oil in a Crypto-Gram article three years back: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9902.html His comments include "This makes no sense, even to an…

  • Implement Enterprise notification apps using MSFT's Reference Architecture

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f544f57-20e2-4a05-a574-e3a675b5d15e The Reference Architecture code allows developers to implement notification services in an enterprise environment. The…

  • Military Duty Calls

    I've been called. To the military. It's a call that a small part of israeli men after the age of 21 come to expect 2-3 times a year. I'll be gone for a month or something of the sort, starting the coming sunday. does…

  • First Unbreakable encryption claimed

    This article on SlashDot tells about an israeli company MegaNet that has devloped Unbreakable encryption using somthing calls VME (Virtual Mtrix Encryption) technology. here's the exceprt:…

  • Cool Bookmarks manager

    Iv'e decided to let you know about the most valuable net tool i use - PowerMarks . It stores massive amounts of bookmars, but not in a hirarchical way, but in a list, allowing you to find one very fast by just typing…

  • Source Colorizer Web Service

    Scott Watermasyskt released this free web service to colorize your sourcode. He also put a client side test application to show you how to use the web service if you're new to this. [via Daniel B. ] Cool!. Finallya web…

  • Ilan Ramon , The first israeli Astronaut, was barried today in israel.

    Ilan Ramon , The first israeli Astronaut, was barried today in israel. All israel held hands and hopes as Ilan Ramon flew into space. All Isarel Stood with tears in their eyes as the news came to them. That was a very…

  • Yes it looks very nice Ingo

    It's the time of the year again. http://www.ingorammer.com has undergone it's first major design change. Looks ok ? [ Ingo Rammer ] Slick and simple. I like it.

  • No plans for a Sourcesafe.Net tool in MS future

    this is one thing i forgot to say in an earlier message . Appearently , accroding to the MSFT rep. that talked to us ,VSS will only be enhanced , but nothing more. there will not be a more robust version of it, or…

  • I hope this name isn't taken for a weblog..

    I looked it up in Google with "weblog", nothing came up. I think it summs up nicely what a weblog does. don't it..

  • .Net Remoting LifeSaver

    Here's something i learned the hard way: When using configuration filnes in Remoting scenarios, be sure to put the following line in the remoting config file (if you use one) of the client application: <debug…

  • Microsoft's Dev Roadmap - Following the COM way?

    So there i was at my VB User's Group Meeting. We had a lecture from a MSFT guy about MSFT's Dev Roadmap .It Appears Microsoft will attempt to Have the Next-Next Version of windows (aka LongHorn) be 70-80% .Net Framework…

  • SmallTalk.NET ?

    The SmallScript Common Dynamic Language Runtime (CDLR) System is a rich multi-paradigm dynamic and scripting language architecture. It includes S# as its primary language, a superset/dialect of classic Smalltalk-98.…

  • Continued COM interop discussion

    In reply to my rants about COM Interop , Sam Gentile writes: No, it shouldn't but it is . Welcome to the sometimes nightmare known as COM Interop. I have written extensively on this area starting about a year ago…

  • source code of the Internet Explorer Web Controls released by MSFT

    Microsoft released the complete source code of the Internet Explorer Web Controls (TreeView, MultiPage, ToolBar, and TabStrip ASP.NET server controls). This is great! [via Fabrice's Weblog ]

  • Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher

    Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher The software giant plans to announce on Monday that a plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for release in March, will be the first to easily integrate with Microsoft's…

  • Cool: Google2Rss

    Peter Drayton managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: Google2RSS is a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits . [ Sam Gentile's Weblog ]…

  • Yey - i think

    Which OS are You? Is this a good thing? thanks to CraigBlog

  • RSS feeds are not for newbies, but should be

    I first discovered this whole RSS thing (and blogging as well),just about a month ago. i read weblogs and kept seeing "syndicate" and other links like that. i couldnt understand what that was for. i had to really look…

  • Reading habtis - total agreement

    Ingo Rammer points out that his reading habits have changed and now reads mainly thourhg RSS feeds. Although i am quite new to blogs and RSS feeds, i can certainly say that my habtis are starting to change as well. I…

  • when you have a cat

    Did a cat ever sit on your keyboavscdascccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc :)

  • Escaping into code

    Sometimes i wish i could just crawl up and snuggle in a dark, warm little place wth nothing but a nice keyboard, a big LCD screen ,a mother of a computer ,a fat T1 line and just learn and program stuff. oh yeah, and…

  • Killer IDE macro

    I found there is only one(for now) macro that i use in the VS .NET IDE - the one that puts two curly braces in the following lines and puts the cursor in between them. this HAS to be a killer macro. i assigned it the…

    .Net Original, Tips & Tricks

  • Howto : Not lose your job

    Chris Sells points to a nice trick on how to not lose your job

  • The occasional Interop Nightmare

    You would think that After 4-5 years of programming experience, after having learned many new tircvks and technonlogies, i would be less surprised by the bwilderment that overcomes me as i come to solve this interop…