March 2004 - Posts

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Service pack 6 for Visual Studio 6.0 released by FransBouma

Get SP6 for Visual Studio 6.0 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp6/default.aspx List of fixes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp6/default.aspx (only VB6 and VC++ 6.0 have fixes)
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[OT] Chernobyl, our pompei by FransBouma

Slashdot posted today a link to a photo journal of Chernobyl, made by a Ukrain girl called Elena who went back to the Chernobyl area, 18 years after the nuclear disaster. This is a good example of the true power of the Internet: real journalism, real...
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Nasty winforms bug by FransBouma

I've been fighting this bug all day and it annoyes me more with every minute I spend on it. Here's the deal: I have a ListView control and a Textbox control on a winforms form (.NET 1.1). With the Textbox you can edit a field of the object on the current...
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The MS - EU ruling by FransBouma

For all the people who think the EU ruling in the Microsoft case is about Realplayer vs. Windows Media Player: you don't get it. It's not about some crappy player vs. some other crappy player program. It's about the difference between integrating a program...
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VS.NET Service packs and why they're not here by FransBouma

Dan Fernandez blogs about the Whidbey release date slip and VS.NET service packs . An understandable article and I thank him for giving some insights in the why-o-why's. He also talks about service packs and why this is a problem. He gives some reasons...
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Yukon and Whidbey: a marriage not worth fixing by FransBouma

eWeek has an article about the release date slip of Yukon and Whidbey . It's more an article about Yukon than about Whidbey and for a reason: it's a known fact that Yukon holds back Whidbey, not the other way around, so if Yukon slips, Whidbey will slipperdy...
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O/R mappers and concurrency control by FransBouma

Paul Wilson and Alex Thissen both blog about concurrency control related to O/R mappers. Let me start by pointing you to an article about concurrency methods I wrote some time ago: Concurrency Control Methods: is there a silver bullet? . I don't believe...
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Does SOA require Object-Message mappers? It depends. by FransBouma

Steve Eichert blogs about the question if we need an Object-Message mapper ( O/M mapper he calls them) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world. It's my understanding that he thinks we need an O/M mapper when we're going to use SOA. I beg to differ...
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BSD2 license violation solved by FransBouma

CodeAse has changed the documentation and application they based on my code so it now shows the right copyright clause as stated in the BSD2 license which was shipped with the original LLBLGen 1.x sourcecode they based their product on. The earlier reported...
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