November 2003 - Posts
For those that couldn't attend or need to refresh.... http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm sorry, no skittles included with this.
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For those familiar with my past life , you know that I'm a supporter of model-driven development - as long as it helps me develop faster, and doesn't constrain me....throughout the entire SDLC. A couple of years ago, I stumbled on to DENIM and was intrigued,
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By default, each project in your solution has an AssemblyInfo.??. Amongst other things, it contains an AssemblyInfo attribute that will end up stamping the dll or exe with it's version number. This is the version number used by the CLR to make sure that
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Stewart Zanolla
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On December 9th , myself and Dave Lloyd will present an in depth sneak peak of the next release of .NET: Visual Studio .NET 2.0 (code-named "Whidbey"). This should be a really fun presentation but seating is pretty limited. Adam Gallant from Microsoft
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I was trying to build the latest NAntContrib project so I could take advantage of their Slingshot task which automagically converts a visual studio solution (*.sln) and projects (*.csproj - not sure about *.vbproj) into a handy-dandy NAnt *.build file
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I miss Win95 winhelp . In particular, I was sad to see in Win98 that HTML Help had not included the annotation feature, the ability to add your own notes to a help topic - any help topic. These were stored in a local .ann file next to the help file if
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Mary Jo Foley speculates that Avalon is a Macromedia “Flash Killer” . So I guess that would mean MS is going to extract out the Avalon Graphics subsystem from Longhorn, including the WinFx/.NET Framework which is the API to it, all into a handy dandy
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Visual Basic has an interest syntax for implementing interface members. Public Interface IAdd Function Execute( ByVal i As Integer , ByVal j As Integer ) As Integer End Interface Public Interface ISubtract Function Execute( ByVal i As Integer , ByVal
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It was Eric Rudder who mentioned in his keynote that there was a new update to all the online help for the Visual Studio including something like 5,000 new samples. He mentioned this update like it had been around for months. Well it was posted on Oct
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't MSBuild a knock off of NAnt or any other derivative of Ant? Is the only reason MS created such a build tool is so that internal MS employees could use it? Do their employee contracts prohibit them from using Open Source
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