Set Foo = Nothing Explained

Set Foo = Nothing Explained [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/ewise/archive/2004/07/29/20717.aspx]. Set X = Nothing does not destroy the object, it destroys the reference to it. This holds true for VB6 and VB.NET. Understanding the difference in how Garbage collection works in VB6 and VB.NET…

Is Bangalore bigger than Silicon Valley?

Is Bangalore bigger than Silicon Valley? [http://news.com.com/Is Bangalore bigger than Silicon Valley%3F/2100-1022_3-5287616.html?part=rss&tag=5287616&subj=news.1022.20] Bangalore may be on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on…

TechEd India

I’ve just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group [http://groups.msn.com/dotnetsig] regarding the Tech Ed India [http://www.techedindia.com/] 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay…

MyXaml

MyXaml [http://www.myxaml.com/] (blog [http://www.myxaml.com/marcclifton/]) offers declarative markup capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.…

Atom.NET

Atom.NET [http://atomnet.sourceforge.net/index.html] is an open source library to generate and parse Atom xml feeds.…

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables

Redesigning Microsoft.com – with CSS, without tables [http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/throwing_tables/]. A 62% file size reduction anticipated! “If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes…