February 2004 - Posts

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Here's a quote that sums up my feelings on the C# vs. VB.NET wars. by findleyd

There are two types of programming languages; the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses. -Bjarne Stroustrup
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Looks like a new DNUG is opening up in Plano. by findleyd

http://weblogs.asp.net/SHenderson/archive/2004/02/26/80863.aspx I need to keep my eye on this and start attending.
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X Omega (a.k.a X# or XEN) will be made available this year! by findleyd

Looks like MS is moving forward with the new .NET language XEN err... X Omega as they are now going to call it. The details I've read about X Omega thus far look very promising. I can't wait to get my hands on it to play with it for real. Here's some...
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Top ten web application security holes for 2004 by findleyd

I heard about this site on TechTV of all places. Not surprisingly, #1 is Unvalidated input.
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Some details about XEN by findleyd

There may be other places on the net that have some of the XEN details but the folowing article is the first place I've ran into thus far that gives some examples of what the syntax may look like. Some interesting hilights: foreach (OrdersRow row in ...
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A peek into the future of data binding... by findleyd

I found this article on data binding in Longhorn while surfing around the MSDN site today. “You can bind a property of a user interface element to a property of any common language runtime (CLR) object, or to an attribute of an XML node.”...
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Automating builds. by findleyd

There is a really good article up on MSDN about automating your build process: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_ch4.asp It's not as fancy as MSBuild but it should work well until Whidbey ships.
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Designer vs. Code Window a.k.a. VB.NET vs. C# by findleyd

With Whidbey looming on the horizon, Microsoft keeps telling us about how VB.NET is advancing from the RAD/designer enhancements and C# is enhancing the code window. As more time goes by the more I’m convinced that this is not a good direction for...
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