July 2003 - Posts

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.NET Roadmap - C# Edit and Continue?? by ejsmith

Lots of people are blogging about the updated information available in the .NET Roadmap . Am I the only one concerned that the Edit and Continue features specifically mentioned for VB.NET will not make it into C# as well?? Maybe the performance will be...
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by ejsmith

" Eric Sink (CEO of SourceGear that produces Vault )and Matthew Reynolds have both been talking about how great Vault is over SourceSafe ." [WebLogs @ ASP.NET] I'm not so sure this is a great sales pitch. Saying that you are better than SourceSafe is...
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by ejsmith

[Royo] feels left out because he can't make it to PDC. Well I won't be there either, and I'm really not upset about it at all. Dude, the PDC isn't targeted at you. You should feel bummed out only if you miss TechED. THAT is the premiere event for developers...
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GSLgen vs. CodeSmith by ejsmith

I hear a lot of talk about people using GSLgen as their template-based code generator of choice and I am wondering what features GSLgen has that you would like to see in CodeSmith. I have downloaded GSLgen and tried it very briefly and I didn't notice...
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by ejsmith

Well, I am done reading the book now and I must say that I was quite happy with it. I would highly recommend it to anyone in the software engineering field (especially if you are wondering what all these patterns everyone is talking about are). It is...
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In the future, there will be robots! by ejsmith

The code generation crowd are at it again. So, "writing code" is stupid is it? Well what will we call writing the requirements in a form that the code generators can understand and why will it be easier to get the requirements right? I like code generators...
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Proper Website Design by ejsmith

I saw this great tutorial for building a killer website. Check it out . [ Robert McLaws ] OMG! That is the funniest thing I've seen since Superfly !
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by ejsmith

I just attended a session presented by Scott Woodgate about Biztalk Server 2004, and I can tell you that it ab-so-lu-te-ly rocks! [ Christophe Lauer ] We recently had Microsoft come into our office and do a BizTalk 2004 demonstation and I can't agree...
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by ejsmith

Andres Aguiar: "ASP.NET is a code generator". I guess. [ Marcie Robillard ] In my opinion, ASP.NET is absolutely a code generator. We could be forced to write an IHttpHandler with thousands of Response.Write statements to output our HTML for every page...
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Code Generation in .NET 2.0 by ejsmith

personally I would be interested in hearing some opinions on how generics will effect the role of code generation in development. Using generics will be able to define code templates using simple language constructs instead of the brain-dead duplication...
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