Rants
Rants regarding Microsoft development.
I simply DO NOT understand how Microsoft can be this far along with a tool like WCF and it STILL tout it as being an "Enterprise" tool. For example... The following is a simple xsd schema with a VERY simple data contract that any enterprise would expect an "enterprise system" to be able to handle: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xs:schema id="Sample" targetNamespace="http://tem... elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/S... xmlns:mstns="http://tempuri...
(I know I'm setting myself up for at least one shot at me)My #1 biggest pet peeve is C# naming conventions!! Field VariablesMan does it drive me bonkers to find field variables with a prefix like _MyVariable or even worse m_MyVariable. Arrrgh, it hurts just to even type it! What does the underscore do for you? Tell you that it's a field variable? Why not have ÞMyVariable or or zæMyVariable? Those are just as arbitrary as an underscore or m underscore. If you can't determine the variable...
So I'm signed up to receive ".NET Insight", the newsletter from the guys over at FTPOnline, and I get a recent one with “Generate Data-Based Web Sites With Blinq” as a news title. My first thought is “greeeat... another blahLINQ technology to add to all the xLINQ confusion....”. Hesitantly, I click the link and begin to read about BLINQ... blah, blah, blah... “Blinq.exe is a deceptively simple command-line tool—similar to SqlMetal.exe for LINQ to SQL—that...