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http://www.microsoft.com/events/mix I won't go into too much detail and let the official site explain, but basically, Microsoft is going to host a really cool conference in Vegas in March. At its simplest this is going to be a great place for developers...
If you're interested in what Microsoft is working on to help you better develop multi-threaded applications, you need to watch this phenominal video ! Extremely passionate and smart guys working on this. Another great video for the Going Deep Show !
This is a feature that's been in VB (.NET) since day one and is very cool. If you've never used it before, what it does is add a condition to your catch statement so the catch is only executed the condition is met. I've never really had much of a use...
Last night I gave my presentation at this month's NUFW Meeting . As unprepared as I was, I think it went pretty well. Before showing up for the meeting, I had the slides done, but had no demos at all. This actually turned out pretty well. I decided to...
<rant> Today, I setup a VPC instance of XP w/ SP1a (and nothing else) to test an extension of our product that is a Smart Client application. The setup realizes that .NET is not installed and asks if the user would like to install it now. Neat....
Let's say we have a Boolean Array. Dim Temp() As Boolean = New Boolean () { True , False , True } It would currently read like this: Temp(0) = True Temp(1) = False Temp(2) = True Now call Array.Sort on it (i.e. Array.Sort(Temp)) and it will now read like...
This is a pretty specific case and pretty simple so I'm not sure anyone will get any use out of it (just simple math), but I thought it was interesting and would share (who knows, maybe I'll forget it and need to look it up again). In an application I...
Someone over at We're Here (big Flash community site) was asking why String Concatination is so slow in .NET . He found the StringBuilder Class so I thought I'd take the opportunity to explain the two and how they work, etc. This topic has been talked...
This evening, I've been struggling with how to deal with storing times in the database and having them display correctly to users based off of their current time zone. The System.TimeZone Class is unfortunately not enough and really only deals with the...
From watching the MS'ers type code a lot at the Summit, I noticed something interesting I didn't know. Guid.ToString(”N”) That will return the Guid without any dashes...very interesting...didn't know that...
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