Christian Nagel's OneNotes

Blog moved

2005-09-11T17:50:00Z

My blog moved to a new location: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cnagel

Please update your links!

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Many thanks to Scott Watermasysk - Thinktecture uses Telligent System's CommunityServer. Thanks also go to Buddhike who did all the work to migrate the data from our old blogs.

Christian

Cinema Tickets von Microsoft

2005-08-22T19:40:00Z

Im Jahr 2003 gab's ein Kino-Ticket von Microsoft durch das Schreiben eines Web service clients. Damals war's Matrix Revolutions, das Ticket war ein Code in einer Email. Zwei Jahre nach diesem Event gibt's wieder eine Kinokarte von Microsoft. Diesemal gibt's die Karte einfach durch Registrierung bei MSDN Connection Austria. Die ersten 500 bekommen eine Karte zu diesem Film. Ich bin nicht ganz sicher ob der auch so cool wie Matrix Revolutions ist ;-) - aber wir werden's sehen....

Die richtige Challenge kommt nach diesem Film: da startet ein Coding Contest. Tips für den Coding Contest gibt's nicht nur bei MSDN Connection Austria, sondern auch bei usergroups.at!

Mehr Infos von Mario!

Christian

usergroups.at started

2005-08-22T19:27:00Z

usergroups.at ist eine neue Website für Diskussionen zwischen .NET Entwicklern in Österreich. usergroups.at bietet Diskussionsforen (und ersetzt damit die bis jetzt von Microsoft geführte Site dotnetexperts.at. Außerdem bietet diese Site Informationen und Features der .NET Usergroups in Österreich.

Content ist im Entstehen, Registrierung und Diskussionen in den Foren schon möglich!

usergroups.at wird von INETA Europe und MSDN Connection Austria unterstützt.

Christian

77 Days

2005-08-22T19:08:00Z

77 days to the launch of Visual Studio 2005. Somasgear blogs about upates for Visual Studio 2005:

August: new CTP for Visual Studio 2005
September: Visual Studio 2005 RC1 & Team Foundation Server Beta 3
TFS will ship in Q1 2006
TFS Beta 3 will have a Go Live license!

Christian

C#: The Party Just Started

2005-08-20T15:55:00Z

Calvin Austin wrote an article C#: Is The Party Over? for JDJ. This article has a lot of misleading and wrong information. What can be expected from an article for a Java magazine?

Contrary on that, in my opinion the party just started ;-)

C# 2.0 has great new features, e.g.

Generics
Nullable Types
Anonymous Methods
Yield Statement
Partial Classes
...

For C# 3.0 Microsoft is already working on new features, e.g. a tighter integration between programming languages and databases.

The .NET Developer Journal has an interesting interview with Anders Hejlsberg.

Christian

Nullable Types change the runtime

2005-08-12T20:55:00Z

With Visual Studio 2005, the CTP August 2005 has new runtime features for Nullable types.

Nullable types had unexpected behavior with boxing to Object (null is lost). This behavior could only be changed by changing the runtime.

Somasgear explains with Nulls not missing anymore the problems and reasons to change the runtime that late. Microsoft listens to what the community needs!

Christian

Want some new features with WSCF?

2005-08-12T20:20:00Z

If you want specific new features for WSCF (Web services Contract-First), or discuss existing features of this tool, you can go to the new thinktecture forums!

Christian

Faster Transactions with Enterprise Services...

2005-07-22T21:53:00Z

...if a single database (SQL Server 2005) is used - no DTC needed!

Transaction Promotion and Delegation will be supported by Enterprise Services!

More information in Paul Fallon's Blog Transaction Promotion and Delegation coming soon to ES Transactions in Whidbey.

Christian

Sample chapter about ES Transaction Services at ftponline

Chapter 7 (Transaction Services) for download at ftponline

2005-07-22T20:02:00Z

Chapter 7 of my newest book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is available for download at ftponline!

Here are the titles of all chapters:

Introducing .NET Enterprise Services
Object Activation and Contexts
Concurrency
COM Interop
Networking
Data Access
Transaction Services
Compensating Resource Managers
State Management
Queued Components
Loosely Coupled Events
Security
Deployment and Configuration
The Future of Distributed Applications
Case Study

Christian

How should I enter a phone number or email address as a date???

2005-07-08T13:41:00Z

With the schiphol Website schiphol Website (Amsterdam airport) it is possible to receive travel updates with the mobile phone. Doing the registration I received the following error message:

"Please enter a valid e-mail address or mobile phone number
Must be in the format dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss"

How should I add a phone number as a date?

The problem was that the schiphol site does not allow the plus sign, e.g. +43664... with the phone number. 0043664... is required.

Update: it seems that the service doesn't work with non-Dutch phone numbers. It's a long time to go for mobile computing.

Christian