“Have a question about the Visual Basic .NET language? Want to know why the language has or doesn’t have a particular feature? Why something was done in a particular way? Where the language might be going? Just enter your question below and your question will be considered for a…
Travis Laborde [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/travisl/] has a great tip on why not to use @@identity [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/travisl/posts/405.aspx] in TSQL code and use scope_identity() [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sa-ses_6n8p.asp] instead. BTW, the…
Thanks to Brad Adams [http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/] for?posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/LHArch.PDC2003.png] and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.pdf] / JPG [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.jpg]). Ofcourse,…
.NET Rocks! [http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp] now has a mirror repository?hosted?by MSDN [http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/]. http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/…
It may happen that you wish to connect to and control the behavior of a Windows Service – programatically. There’s a .NET class called ServiceController [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicecontrollerclasstopic.asp] just to do that. It represents a Windows service and allows…
Rory [http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/1303.aspx] on PDC 2003 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/]: “Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought …” Got me thinking, maybe this ?should have said “I…
John Lam (iunknown) [http://www.iunknown.com/] has developed a small utility that will diff two different sets of assemblies and calculate the diff between .NET v1.1 and v1.2 of the Frameworks. Check it out here [http://www.iunknown.com/000364.html] ……
The following two articles at MSDNAA [http://msdnaa.net/] are?pretty interesting: Use Design Patterns to Simplify the Relationship Between Menus and Form Elements in .NET [http://msdnaa.net/Resources/display.aspx?ResID=2337] – In Windows Forms applications, similar commands, such as those in a menu and their counterparts on…