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Fri, Sep 16 2005 8:40 PM

And if that wasn't technical enough...

In "ADO.Net 2 Advanced Data Access Patterns", Pablo Castro demonstrates the workings of an algebraic query processor, built on top of the ADO.Net technology. I guess it is technical, but his point is that it is possible, and actually not that...
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Fri, Sep 16 2005 7:17 PM

Geeking out

I'm too young for this. A bunch of industry-leading language developers and university professors talking about dynamic languages with enough acronyms and language names to share a stick at! I have an interest in the progress of IronPython, so the title...
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Wed, Sep 14 2005 2:06 AM

Updating UI from long-running process without dealing with threading

Quick tidbit learned in instructor-led class - Application.DoEvents() will cause UI to be updated. You can call this in the middle of a long-running process. For example, if I am going to process a bunch of data, and want to update status/progress information...
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Wed, Sep 14 2005 12:22 AM

LINQ - Wow!

This is almost unbelievable. I'm sitting in a session by Andres ("father" of C#) describing the future Language INtegrated Query implementation in C#. Here is the sample that he's dealing with (just to prove that the features go beyond just...
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Tue, Sep 13 2005 2:33 AM

Email exercise design for Monday precon

Here is the simple Email design for the Monday Framework Design precon that Jim Beveridge and I worked out: Samples: // send a simple text message Email.SendMessage(" bob@mybusiness.com ", "Hey Bob, how's it going?"); // send an e...
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Mon, Sep 12 2005 9:00 PM

Framework Design Guidlines, with Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina

Today's sessions of choice was "The Art of Building a Reusable Class Library" - Brad has posted so much about this that I just had to attend. One great thing about this session is that they gave away copies of their book "Framework Design...
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Mon, Sep 12 2005 9:00 PM

Brad Abrams on various language features and how to use them in APIs

Brad offers some practical advice - a few highlights: don't make your consumers "archeologists" - leave artifacts that help developers understand the intent of your object model - make intent obvious Const/ReadOnly: readonly better than const...
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Mon, Sep 12 2005 12:30 AM

Sunday Precon continued - Rocky on architecture

Rocky spent some valuable time discussing n-tier and n-layer architectures. A few memorable quotes: "UI is expendable" - Avalon changes things again - you will have to re-write your UI to use it. Users always change their minds about UI - make...
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Sun, Sep 11 2005 9:51 PM

Trying out Windows Vista

This is cool. Over 100 desktops all running Windows Vista beta, connected to the internet, in the Windows Vista lab. I'm writing this blog entry from one of them. It is amazing the infrastructure that they have set up here - the expense and organization...
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Sun, Sep 11 2005 9:27 PM

Morning precon with Rocky Lhotka

Rocky and Billy Hollis ran the morning part of their precon on ".Net Framework 2.0: The Smart Client Perspective". A few highlights: They put in a strong push towards smart client applications, with processing on the client, vs. browser-based...
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Sun, Sep 11 2005 8:34 PM

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

Microsoft PDC 05 is here! I'm in the middle of the first day of sessions preceding the conference, here in warm Los Angeles. I'll try and post here throughout the week with highlights from the conference, and things that I'm learning. Naturally there...
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