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October 2007 - Willem Meints

  • The future of Acropolis

    Few months back I tried the new client framework Acropolis and was pretty surprised by the features it offered. However I also noticed that it was far from being a complete solution What did you expect from a CTP? I hear you say and that's pretty much...
    Published 30-10-2007 18:38 by willemm
  • International CAPS-LOCK day

    It's internation caps-lock day, I don't think I have to explain this ;P http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9801944-1.html
    Published 23-10-2007 9:20 by willemm
  • Parallel LINQ

    With dual core and even quad core processors around it's time to ramp up the workload so that software takes full advantage of the processor cores available in todays computers. One of the more exciting advancements for me personally in this area...
    Published 19-10-2007 12:03 by willemm
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  • Auto implemented properties C# 3.0

    Saturday evening I was coding again on my scheduling app when something odd striked me. Visual Studio 2008 generated a very strange piece of code when I used the prop snippet. The result was the following: public string Name { get; set; } This looked...
    Published 01-10-2007 9:21 by willemm
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  • C# Code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 and higher

    Visual Studio comes with snippets for VB 2005, but C# seems to be missing. Luckely Microsoft published a set on MSDN that you can download to make the snippets from VB available in C#. Heck, they even come with a license that allows developers to change...
    Published 01-10-2007 9:02 by willemm
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