May 21, 2002 .NET

Windows Forms message board

May 21, 2002 .NET

.NET Component Inspector

“Have you ever wished you could explore the behavior of a component or some code without having to write any code? To watch events occur on any object and examine the history of events? To quickly try something and see how it affects the component? To look at the visual behavior of a component as you adjust not only its properties, but execute its methods? If so the nogoop .NET Component Inspector is the tool you have been seeking.”

May 21, 2002 .NET

Wonders of WinForm: State Sanity & Smart Clients

“I’d like to welcome you to the inaugural article of my new MSDN Online column. From the title of this column, you can probably tell two things right off. It’s about Windows Forms, and it’s a technology I like quite a bit. Of course, as with any technology, Windows Forms has its good points and its ‘opportunities for improvement.’ In this column, I’ll explore the various ins and outs of Microsoft .NET as it relates to building stand-alone applications, as well as the client side of client-server and n-tier applications.”

May 21, 2002 .NET

Adding Ref-Counting to Rotor

I've just been awarded a grant from Microsoft Research in Cambridge for “Studying the Performance and Memory Usage Effects of Adding Reference Counting to Rotor.” Now we'll see whether they were right to leave ref-counting out of the CLR or not. Wahoo!
May 20, 2002

Reflections on “A New Kind of Science”

"In his remarkable new book, Stephen Wolfram asserts that cellular automata operations underlie much of the real world. He even asserts that the entire Universe itself is a big cellular-automaton computer. But Ray Kurzweil challenges the ability of these ideas to fully explain the complexities of life, intelligence, and physical phenomena."
May 20, 2002 .NET

.Net Data Provider for PostgreSQL Announced

“Npgsql .Net Data Provider for PostgreSQL. It is written entirely in C#. This data provider supports the version 2.0 of PostgreSQL protocol.

“It is in a very early stage. For now, just the connect/disconnect functionality is working. It parses and validate the connection string and makes the connection.

“Any help, suggestion, recommendation is welcome.”

May 18, 2002 .NET

JasonW on Rotor (very cool!)

"With over 9,000 files, and including some 1300 public classes to pore through, the Shared Source CLI can teach you quite a bit about the internal workings of the CLR. But the sheer amount of source code included can make just starting your exploration a monumental task. This article discusses some of the things you can learn from the source code facsimile of the CLR, like how JIT compilation works. It will also help you understand how to control execution along with debugging and loading classes. A walk through the steps involved in setting up the runtime will let you become familiar with the process."
May 18, 2002 Fun

Waka Waka Poem

First, the poem itself (there are many versions, this is just one):

<> ! * ′ ′ #
^ ” ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * <> ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , system halted

In English, this reads:

waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
bang splat equal at dollar under-score
percent splat waka waka tilda number four
ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma crash

Serdar Kilic
win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com
Sat 5/18/2002 6:32 PM


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