May 2005 - Posts

Just to make VB.NET developers feel better...

From Don Box’s blog , I found the following post describing why C# might become irrelevant. Think of the fun if the VB6 petition was replaced by classicCSharp.org (note to self…register that domain). Would each of the points have to end in Read More...

The Dual Life of Code Behind

When you create an ASP.NET page using Visual Studio .NET, the default processing model is to use code-behind (the basics of which I described here ). One of the more interesting aspects of code-behind is that you can specify the code for the code-behind Read More...

How Consultants Work...well, some of them :)

As a person who works in the computer industry, I have been a fan of Dilbert for years. As a consultant, I get a special kick out of cartoons such as this one . Not that I’ve ever been questioned about the process I use. But even if I was, I’d Read More...

The Code Behind Model of ASP.NET

Almost from it’s beginning, HTML has been a mixture of data, display and logic. While the original static pages might have only combined data and display, once scripting was introduced the three disciplines have lived together uncomfortably. ASP Read More...

Last Developer Standing

In case you were unaware, Microsoft Canada is in the middle of running a Last Developer Standing competition. Modelled on the wildly popular (or at least, moderately watched) Last Comic Standing show on television, the idea is to give developers a series Read More...

Licensing VSTS

If you're at all interested in using VSTS in your company, the announcement of the pricing for Team Systems was probably quite disturbing. More so if the number of developers on your team numbered in the single digits. Fortunately, Microsoft listened Read More...