MSDN Lab
Stumbled upon MSDN Lab while checking out the Visual Studio Team System site. It seems Microsoft is taking a tip or two from google which has its own labs website where it previews its upcoming/under...
View ArticleSome useful links
Recently a collegue of mine needed some help with Creating a Windows Service, Creating an MSI Installer and Updater Application Block for .NET. Being in the middle of a project he prefered something a...
View ArticleIt feels good to be heard
Few days back I posted my comment to a post Why don't nullable relational operators return bool? instead of bool? on the C# Frequently Asked Questions blog. In response the comment the C# Team updated...
View ArticleLonghorn and Loosing your mobile phone
In a recent post I lost my girlfriends phone number. Kevin Moore is very right in saying "Loosing your phone should be a great experience, because it gives you an excuse to get a Pocket PC Phone...
View Articlere:The Fishbowl: The Mac is a Harsh Mistress
Charles Miller has really written a excellent and funny analogy comparing Mac/Microsoft/Linux. He shows good knowledge two very complex things females and computers ;).
View ArticleAnother excellent analogy this time on .Net Remoting
A fabulous post on Marshal-by-ref versus Serializable Objects by Eric Lippert. I need to learn how people come up with such excllent analogies and simple explanation to complex things.
View ArticleMSDN 2 is here
Microsoft has released the beta-documentation for Visual Studio 2005. I came to know about this from Krik Allen Evans's post MSDN2 and .NET Namespace Support cool new features and a different look I...
View ArticleThe Debate: Should we set the value of a variable to Null after we have no...
Its been a long standing debate. I have found many developers setting the value of the local variables to null at the end of the method. That never made sense why should one set the value of a variable...
View ArticlePre-compilation in ASP.NET v1.1
Today I came across Jon Galloway’s blog entry on pre-compiling ASP.NET web applications in v1.1. I have been looking for this for a while now. I tried it on with the web application I am currently...
View ArticleBoxing/Unboxing
Its been nearly three years since I last blogged and what better topic to start blogging back again than boxing/unboxing. Most of the literature that I can find online tells me what is a...
View ArticleBoxing/UnBoxing Continued
Since my last post I ran across some new questions.1. Does boxing have a performance issue or UnBoxing?2. In case when an int has to be concatenated with string is it better to use ToString()...
View ArticleTeam System 2008
Brian (VSTS Product Group Manager) in his recent post published the TFS 2008 feature list. I am very happy to see some of the features specially support for SPS 2007 and SQL reporting on any server.My...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2008 First Impressions
Yesterday VS.net 2008 shipped and is made available for download to MSDN subscribers. For the general public a trial edition is available for download.For Vista users my suggestion do not use the link...
View ArticleReboot
I have decide to do reboot my blog and start blogging again. First came the facelift I have chose a new template and did some house cleaning. Next came the tools which will help me create the blog...
View ArticleThe post-PC era
The term post-PC era seems to crop up everywhere. I first came across the term in an interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates back in 2007 at the AllThingsD conference. Since then the term has been in...
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