February 2004 Entries
I'm considering the idea of writing an article (possibly Managing Projects with Visual Studio .NET) on managing multi-project solutions within Visual Studio. Would anyone be interested in that? I still need to do some research on it, so if you have any info, that would be good, too. I'm working on a number of reuse libraries along with different projects and it's creating a lot of assemblies, which in-turn creates an exponential number of assembly references. Anyway, I was going to try to research...
Well, I may not be as global as I'd like, but here's my state map. Obviously, I've got a while to get them all. I didn't include states that I've briefly stopped in; only places that I actually stayed and did stuff in. Thanks to World66.com Thanks to Sergey for the link/idea. Now, all I need to do is find something to map out all of the roads I've driven on. I've always thought it would be interesting to see the wild web of roads I've driven on...
I read an article in SD Times that talked about how Microsoft (and .NET) does not support dynamic, or scripting languages as much as it should. First, let me say that I think scripting languages can be powerful when you need a severe amount of flexibility during run-time. Second, let me say that most applications don't need this sort of flexibility. And, while it could be handy for anyone, I don't know that it's an all-encompasing solution. Either way, I was thinking about how someone could implement...
I've had several people tell me that they think Microsoft should keep VB and C# running down the same road (as well as reading an old article in VSM). My response is always the same: Why? Why on earth would you want to force two different types of developers into one code model/language? The whole point of .NET, which seems to have been lost in the mix based on what I hear from a lot of developers, was to allow multiple languages to be able to work together within one solid platform. And, guess what:...
I was reading an article about Whidbey, which I'll be posting about shortly, and I thought about how stupid it is to have both the for and foreach loop structures (I also noticed this post when I logged on to write this). Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's easier to use the foreach loop, but considering the performance issues, why would you? I see VB developers doing it all the time and I just shake my head in partial disgust (maybe that's a tad strong). Anyway, my issue with this fault is...
Anyway, while working on this solu