December 17, 2002

At the tomb of the IUnknown Interface

From Mark Pearce: As COM is dragged kicking and screaming towards the airlock, a strangely dry-eyed COM warrior celebrates its demise.
December 16, 2002 .net

.NET Data-Bound TreeView Control

"DataViewTree is a UserControl that can load hierarchical datasets into a Windows Forms TreeView control. The included sample project shows how to load an xml file into a dataset which is then passed to the DataViewTree control for display. Complete source for the DataViewTree control and sample project is included in the download." I know lots of folks want to data bind hierarchical data and this one includes the source if it doesn't do exactly what you're after.
December 16, 2002 .net

Alintex Script Host brings scripting to .NET

From Alintex: Alintex Script Host lets you run scripts written in three Microsoft .NET languages - VB, C# and JScript. One can take full advantage of the power of the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) to produce lightweight, yet powerful applications and utilities. Amongst other features, it allows you to mix and match all three supported .NET languages in the same script, yet optionally produce a single XML based Portable Script file for easy distribution. Alintex Script Host is FREE for both personal and commercial use.
December 15, 2002 tools

New Genghis Release Coming

There has been all kinds of activity on Genghis since the v0.3 release. I've been gathering these bits together to make a coherent v0.4 release in the new year (right after I finish my darn book!). Those of you with final bits and pieces that need to get in before that release, please get them to me ASAP. Thanks.
December 13, 2002 .net

Windows Forms Layout

"Chris Sells discusses how controls are scaled and arranged on a form, and how the scaling and arrangement features are used to meet the needs of different users with respect to system font size and the size of the data being entered."
December 13, 2002

And They Said it Wasn’t Ready For Production

From Jesse Ezell: "Ximian, Inc., the leading open source desktop company, today announced that OpenLink Software, Inc., an industry leader in the development and deployment of secure, high-performance Universal Data Access and Web Services middleware, is using Mono™ as part of the development efforts for Virtuoso 3.0, its latest Universal Server release. Mono enables OpenLink Virtuoso to provide a consistent .NET common language runtime (CLR) and frameworks integration implementation across Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX. The OpenLink effort demonstrates platform-independent web services creation using any .NET-bound language, web services hosting, ASP.NET application invocation without IIS, and ADO.NET based data access. OpenLink's adoption represents one of the first commercial uses of the Mono Project, a community initiative launched by Ximian™ to develop an open source version of the Microsoft .NET development platform for Linux and UNIX."
December 12, 2002 .net

Microsoft Releases MapPoint .NET Version 3.0

I'm a big fan of both the MapPoint .NET web service specifically (it's a model in several areas) and of the idea of commercial web services in general. Someday I hope to be able to afford this one. : )
December 12, 2002 .net

Current Project Command Prompt for VS.NET

Another answer from the VS.NET Info Center Q&A Forum describing how to start a command prompt and the file explorer in the directory of the current project.

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