Using C# 3.0 from .NET 2.0
Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few...
Category: .NET Framework 3.5
Automatic properties and replacing the Visual Studio 2008 ‘prop’ snippet
In .NET Framework 3.5, we’ve gained automatic properties. Automatic properties are really simple to understand. Instead of writing a full getter and setter with a private field (called a backing field, because it belongs...
Borrow and extend; Summer Class
When Microsoft takes a great idea from someone else, they always enhance it. They call this “borrow and extend”. Take tabbed browsing for example, where you can view QuickTabs and get a screen with...
~Visual Studio 2005
Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let’s play… Oh, by the way, after I’ve finished Call of Duty 4. This game ROCKS! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio...
.NET Framework 3.5 in February
Normally I get flooded with messages about stuff like the official release-date for .NET Framework 3.5. But since my Omea Reader database crashed (for the third time, but this time I can’t find a...
Manual check for updates with ClickOnce
I really love [wikipedia:ClickOnce], because it removes the necessity to build a web application. In my years as a developer, I can’t count the projects that were web based, simply because of the deployment...
Class-A Summer Classes become Winter Classes
As I really enjoyed giving the Summer Classes a few weeks ago, the first ever real .NET 3.5 class world wide, I’m really pleased to announce the Winter Classes. Although the date hasn’t even...
.NET 3.5 Summer Class was… awesome!
The weekend-after has passed and I’ve slept through most of it. Man did we use up some hours (some nights we went on with the training until 23:00 hours) and especially the last night...
Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced
Awesome! Just a few days before the .NET 3.5 Summer Class, Silverlight 1.0 is released. With the announcement, the news is out that Silverlight will be officially supported by Microsoft and Novell on Linux...
System setup for .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5
Michele Leroux Bustamante has just posted a lot of links to resources to get you going on .NET 3.5. As her, I can recommend you get started with .NET 3.5 because it rocks! It...
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
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