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Developing on USB memory sticks by hannes

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror fame recently wrote about USB memory sticks and why we don’t ‘yet’ put our whole computing environment one a flash drive. Basically it comes down to speed according to him. Personally, for the last year or so with no problems, I’ve been using my memory stick to store development code on so that I can easily work between different machines. At work I check the code out onto the stick, take it out and work disconnect at home on another machine. Next morning I just plug...
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VS2008 IntelliSense for Visual Basic by hannes

Lisa Feigebaum from the VB team recently wrote two posts about VS2008 IntelliSense for Visual Basic. Read it here and here . The VS2008 IDE tools for VB.Net surely makes it the most productive tool for building .Net application today. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Code Examples by hannes

<rant>One of the most irritating things for me when looking at partial code examples is that they never tell you which components to reference or which namespaces to use / import. </rant> :-( Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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VB2008 Gems by hannes

Amanda Silver from The Visual Basic Team recently blogged about Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 . <personal note>Call me a die hard VB developer. You see every time I start a new project I tell myself this one will be in C# but it always ends up as a VB.Net one. </personal note> Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

A nice picture I found on Wikipedia explaining .Net 3.0 by hannes

WCF is a new communication subsystem to enable applications, in one machine or across multiple machines connected by a network, to communicate. WPF is the graphical subsystem feature of the .NET Framework 3.0 and is directly related to XAML. WCS is a framework developed by Microsoft which securely stores digital identities of a person, and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website. WWF is a Microsoft technology for defining...

Spring.Net and AOP by hannes

One of Spring.Net claims to fame is it's implemetation of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming). Read about it here and see how they do it here . Spring.NET is an open source application framework that makes building enterprise .NET applications easier. Providing components based on proven design patterns that can be integrated into all tiers of your application architecture, Spring helps increase development productivity and improve application quality and performance. Downloads are available through...
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Data Access Tutorials for ASP.Net 2.0 by hannes

Today I discovered a treasure chest of tutorials written by Scott Mitchell for ASP.Net 2.0. Go have a look here . Code samples are provided in VB.Net and C#. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Classes vs. Structures by hannes

While browsing thru some code of our development team I noticed that nowhere they use structures and always prefers to use classes when creating small data structures that are mostly made up of value type fields. So I went and did some research. In the .Net Framework objects of structures types are created on the stack while objects of class types are created on the heap. Structures can also implement interfaces but there is no inheritance. Structures can obtain fields with accessibility set. Structures...
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Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by hannes

Paul Duvall's book, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk , is now out. It's part of Martin Fowlers signature series which means it should be good read. To quote Martin. One of the interesting things about Continuous Integration is how often people are surprised by the impact that it has. We often find people dismiss it as a marginal benefit, yet it can bring an entirely different feel to a project. There is a much greater sense of visibility, because problems...
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Installing VS2008 Beta 2 by hannes

This is my first post using Windows Life Writer, thanks Neale for his trouble shooting post. Well this morning I installed VS2008 Beta 2 on my laptop. Found no problems with the installation and the IDE fired up nicely for the first time without any visible hickups. For the record my laptop is not the news and greatest and installing from the HDD took less time then I expected. For the next couple of weeks I hope the explore some of VS2008 new features, particular around LINQ. Share this post: email...
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Using LINQ to SQL by hannes

Hi, Scott Guthrie, wrote a series of blog posts titled “ Using LINQ to SQL ”. Go have a look here . To my surprise he also included VB code, viva VB! Also by Scott some of the new language features in the Orcas release of VS.Net Framework. Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers Extension Methods Lambda Expressions Query Syntax Anonymous Types Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Naming Standards by hannes

If you’re looking for programming naming standard guidance, go have a look at the . Net Framework General Reference Guidelines here on MSDN. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Splitting up the work by hannes

I like reading Joel’s blog on software and in his latest post he talks about Apple Safari for Windows: The world's slowest web browser and the possible reason for the lack of performance as explained by Raymond Chen in one of his post, Performance gains at the cost of other components . In the end it all comes down to splitting up the work. Currently I work on a domain driven project which shows the same symptoms, the application start up takes awfully long. I think the reason for our problems...

Silverlight what? by hannes

Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary XAML-based runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animations, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. Version 1.1 also includes a version of the CLR so that Silverlight applications can be written in any .NET language. Read more here on Wikipedia, get it here from Microsoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark...

Getting Orcas by hannes

Getting my hands on Orcas Beta is turning out to be a real challenge; the MSDN download is split into 8 parts each about 740 Mb big. This makes it impossible for me to download at home and very risky doing it at work. So come on Microsoft, please give use an option to mail order it so that I can start playing with LINQ. Untill then the search continue.... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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