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I stumbled across this site: http://www.albahari.com/threading/ It offers a nice free e-book on threading in C#. I haven't had time to read it but it looks quite good. Greetz, Ernst
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A collegue of mine directed my attention to the following: Juval Lowy created a nice framework on 2.0 which enables you to do transactions on common types . So rolling back local variables when exceptions or issues occur! True error handling… J Love it!
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If you're interested in anything .NET-ish (or anything free ), then you might wanna download this free Visual Basic 2005 book .
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Robert Jan some time ago blogged about DB4O . And I've been following their progress ever since. You really should take a look at DB4O. It's cool technology! You open a database like this: db = Db4o.openFile(@"c:\db4otest\database\test.dbo"); Now suppose I have a Object: Person. Person P1 = new Person...
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A new colleague of mine, Raynni Jourdain (LogicaCMG, Arnhem), pointed me towards this article about Java vs. .NET . In short, it says .NET for projects that have ease-of-use, need quick time to market and a lifespan of 2-5 years and Java for more complex projects, scalability and a lifespan of 5-10 years...
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WSDL Tool A collegue of mine, Erwyn van der Meer, pointed to a nice and usefull WSDL tool from ThinkTecture. If you have a WSDL file, you can use this WSDL to generate the webservice code so you start testing before the actual webservice is on-line! Usefull stuff At IDesign, there's a lot of usefull...
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New MSDN section: Coding4Fun
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Read this article on d esigning .NET Class Libraries .... About a week ago we had a discussion on the Microsoft mailinglist @ LCMG about whether or not to combine several assemblies into one assembly. Maybe this article will help you decide what the best option is for you. Cheers!
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David Chappell has published a paper on Indigo on the MSDN Web Services Development Center . It's good reading and contains a few nice simple examples to feel right at home in Indigo... I like it, I like it...
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Even Microsoft loves the Windows Forms FAQ by George Shepherd . Als you can see in this Windows Forms FAQ from Microsoft, they used a lot of stuff from his FAQ... As you can see, Microsoft also introduces a FAQ for Windows Forms 2.0 . And if you want to know what the new features are gonna be in 2.0...
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A lot of you know the George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ. You can find it at http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WinForms/ It's also available at http://64.78.52.104/FAQ/WinForms/default.asp To prevent from losing this information when George decides to end it all together I decided to download the pages...
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A client recently expressed their wish to use electronic forms for their representatives. The reps would have to take these forms on their laptops, travel around Europe, and be able to send the data in the forms back to a webservice at HQ, when connected to the internet. This requirement triggered me...
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Googling for some info I hit this site with all kinds of free chapters, from elementary C# to the lesser known GraphicsPaths. All samples so free for download. As we say in Dutch: “us bin zuunig“ (“we're stingy“).
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Frans Bouma already wrote some stuff about the delay of WinFS. WinFS probably won't be present in Longhorn for a long while. Hmmm... Especially interesting since I've just recently read this article about SOA on MSDN. It's also downloadable as Word doc . Now, can you find the difference? I'll make it...
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Do you also find it annoying that Visual Studio (VS) always adds ID's and Names to certain HTML tags when you copy/paste? Like this: INPUT type=hidden value=1 Copy/paste this in VS and you get: INPUT id=Hidden1 type=hidden value=1 name=Hidden1 Now, that's quite annoying... And there's no way to turn...