"X-Code .NET is a successor to the popular "X-Code" codegen language, which was included as part of the excellent-but-now-defunct product from DevelopMentor known as Gen. X-Code .NET is like classic X-Code, except that it’s based on JScript .NET instead of classic JScript.”
I’m very happy to see Shawn, a valued member of the DevelopMentor Software team that built Gen in the first place, take up this project. You go, Shawn!
"It's possible to change the shape of the form by making parts completely transparent. One way to do this is with the TransparencyKey property, which designates a color to use to mark transparent pixels. When a pixel on the form is supposed to be drawn with the transparent key color, that pixel will instead be removed from the form, both in the sense that the pixel will not be drawn over whatever is behind it and that clicking on that spot on the form will actually cause the click to happen on what's underneath."
This is a little exerpt from the book about using WinForms to do non-rectangular forms and hit-testing.
If you've got a VS.NET question, I'm now the official SearchVB site’s VS.NET “expert”, which seems strange on a site with "VB" in the title, but .NET is about language-neutrality, after all. : )
"[W]here is the unmanaged programmer to turn [for building web services]? The answer is ATL Server. Developers familiar with conventional COM programming using Visual Studio® 6.0 and ATL 3.0 will find an extraordinarily empowering suite of tools and classes in the new ATL 7.0 library that comes with Visual Studio .NET. The classes that support such Web application development as building XML Web Services are collectively termed ATL Server. This article will explain how the C++ programmer can use the facilities available in ATL Server to develop high-performance Web Services quickly."
This is really Kirk's baby, I just helped get it dressed for public display. : )
".NET Pet Shop 2.0 is a reference application for building highly scalable ASP.NET Web applications. The application is functionally equivalent to the Sun® Microsystems Java™ Pet Store 1.2 blueprint application, and can be used to compare the coding concepts, basic application server features, and architectures of .NET and J2EE™. It also includes benchmark data for comparison."
Keith Brown has *finally* decided to write Essential .NET Security and he'll be posting it to HTML as he writes it. He's already got the ASP.NET security chapter posted. Wahoo!
