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A very interesting post on the new WPF and Silverlight designer (Cider) in Visual Studio 2010 . One of the things that stood out to me was this: “ The other piece of advice I would give you for Beta 2 is to make sure you’re running either Vista or Windows 7. Most of VS 2010’s performance testing...
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A few years ago I advocated the addition of a Minister of IT to our government in a column. One of the main reasons for supporting this (or even being up for the position myself) is the apparent lack of thorough knowledge of information technology amongst our leaders. I still think that IT is so fundamental...
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Whenever you test it is vital that you pick correct test data. Suppose you need to verify that you implemented an Add method correctly and you test it by passing 2 and 2 to be added. There are many implementations that would respond with 4. Here are a couple: return num1 + num2; return 4; return num1...
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It's official! WPF/E has been named Microsoft Silverlight. (Yet another meaningless name...) Flash, eat your heart out! Link to Microsoft Silverlight
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(It has been too long... I am trying to get less clutter and more valuable info in my blog...) Last Friday I wrote my biography, a session summary and I sent them accompanied by my portrait to Microsoft as I will be doing a session on the Dutch DevDays[1] Windows Vista and Longhorn Server: The Transactional...
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Today Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 The official link and download page aren't there yet but after digging around I found a link[1]. Here's the official link[2] [1] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 [2] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0
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In my previous post about using and Dispose[1] I touched lightly on the Garbage Collector. Indeed very lightly, I never mentioned it but Dispose is very much related to the GC. Today I found Chris Lyon's Weblog which contains excellent info on the GC, ranging from Dispose to WeakReferences. Read the...
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Please note that my explanation in this post is incorrect. I am sorry if I caused any trouble. In .NET 2.0 disposing the SqlConnection DOES return the connection into the connectionpool. In my experience .NET 1.1 acted differently; I will try to investigate this and let you know. In many talks, tutorials...
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During the last few weeks I developed the idea that it would be nice to be able to pull Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data from a data warehouse to the desktop in gadget on the sidebar in Vista. I even asked some colleagues if there are any standard API's or Web Services to access KPI's. Today (the...
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As you might have noticed the Microsoft Expression Products[1] got their final names and a new addition. In true adherence to other naming schemes[2][3] they decided to give Interaction Designer a name that is 'easy' to recognize. I remember it by remembering that it's the one with the non descriptive...
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Today I have met Jason Olson[1]. I have been reading his blog ever since the gaming world was looking for the ultimate gameloop in managed code[2]. Like Jason I love game development and do 'normal' development for my work. This week he is teaching Longhorn Server at a Train The Trainer event in Amsterdam...
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Eric[1] showed me a great summary of tricks that will let you use some new Vista API's from managed code[2]. Thanks Eric! [1] Eric [2] Vista-only features for the managed developer
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Last Friday I gave a seminar on the requirements for the Vista Logo Certification[1]. During the talk someone suggested that the problems of running Visual Studio 2005 (and SQL Server 2005 as well) on Windows Vista can be fixed[2]. Although I haven't tried it yet (I will a soon as I get my hands on a...
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Every once in a while there's a smirk on my face caused by something that I think is very funny but is overlooked by others. Today Sun announced a new Java community because Sun's Java platform is going Open Source. And here's my smirk: the site is called http://java.net
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.NET 3.0 (FKA WinFX) has been released. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en to get the SDK.