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June 19, 2002 .net

WANTED! Starting Work on a Windows Forms Project?

"Are you starting work on a Windows Forms project and need that extra jump start? The Windows Forms development team is hosting a hands-on development lab on the Microsoft campus for companies who are actively starting Windows Forms work. If you are about to start a Windows Forms project or recently started a project, please apply to attend."
June 19, 2002 .net

A Windows Forms Application Desktop Toolbar

"This sample demonstrates how to create a Windows Forms application that registers itself as a desktop toolbar. The behavior of your desktop toolbar can exactly mimic that of the Windows Taskbar."
June 18, 2002 .net

The .NET Cost: Who Pays? (3 of 3)

"The .NET platform provides developers with an unprecedented level of language interoperability—at a price. Luckily, it won't cost you an arm and a leg to participate. Part 3 of 3."
June 17, 2002 .net

The ASP.NET Web Matrix Project

"ASP.NET Web Matrix is a community-supported, easy-to-use WYSIWYG application development tool for ASP.NET. It can be installed via a quick 1.2 MB download (about 5 minutes using a 56Kb modem). Best of all — it's absolutely free!"
June 11, 2002 .net

Adding Ref-Counting to Rotor

“Microsoft has granted Sells Brothers, Inc. a research grant to add ref-counting to Rotor and to study the performance effects. There’s been a lot of speculation about just how we’re planning to add ref-counting to Rotor.”

June 11, 2002 .net

A compiler-writer’s guide to C#

“Plan:

  • Give overview of language from point of view of compiler writer
  • Code generation for CLR is trival, so we’ll focus on type checking
  • Specification is 410 pages, almost no formal methods, and frustratingly verbosely written
  • We’ll boil much of it down to five parts”
June 9, 2002 .net

Pragmatic ADO.NET, Chapter 6: Typed DataSets

“In Chapter 5, I extolled the virtues of setting up your DataSets like in-memory databases. Unfortunately I asked you to write quite a bit of code to do all the work. I was only teasing you. This chapter will show you how to use Typed DataSets to make that job a lot easier while at the same time creating type-safety at compilation time.”

June 8, 2002 .net

Mono 0.12 is out!

“More classes! More working code! Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!”


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