December 2004 - Posts
Richard Grimes released a very nice tutorial about how .NET locates and loads assemblies.
It's written in a clear style, and provides practical and valuable information with code snippets on the following subjects : assemblies, metadata, fusion / fuslogvw, versioning (including versioning without a strong name), rebinding/redirection, shared assemblies, publisher policies, dynamic loading, etc.
[via Thibaut Barrère]
Welcome to "DLL hell".NET. Does these things really have to be that complicated???
Because many of us have to deal with that other dominant platform,
SharpToolbox gets a little "J" sister site for Christmas:
JavaToolbox.com.
JavaToolbox is the place for Java tools, like SharpToolbox is the place for .NET tools.
Of course, this is work in progress, and a lot of tools are still to be added, but you can already talk about the site to your colleagues from the other side because I expect the site to grow quickly :-)
My new article is available online in French: Choosing an object-relational mapping tool.
There is no English version yet, but maybe I'll take the time to translate it. If someone feels like helping...
Update: this article is now available in English as well.
Mon nouvel article est paru sur DotNetGuru : Choisir un outil de mapping objet-relationnel.
Difficile d'échapper à l'écriture de code d'accès et de manipulation de données quand on développe une application. Les outils de mapping objet-relationnel se proposent de vous aider. Encore faut-il faire le bon choix... Cet article vous présente les différents critères à étudier avant de faire l'acquisition d'un tel outil.
PastePal is an excellent idea, and a much needed tool!
How many times did I see Word documents containg just an image because people don't know what to do with images in the clipboard...
Luckily, we don't need image editing software (such as the marvelous Paint) any longer to copy-and-save an image.
PastePal is a quick'n'dirty utility that saves images from the clipboard to a pre-arranged location in JPEG format, with a randomly generated filename (or one you specify), and can run a utility/script against the saved image afterwards.
For the first time, I removed products from the
SharpToolbox. These tools are not exactly deleted, but flagged as
discontinued so that they don't disappear completely, in case someone wonders what happened to them or needs the source code or something..
I just started, so only eight products switched status from
available to
discontinued. Most of them are in the
Object-Relational Mapping category. I have still more sweeping work to do... In case you know of other products that are now discontinued, please let me know.
I think that after seeing an impressive wealth of products appear, natural selection is at work. So take care about the tools you choose!
Sometimes your really wonder what people are doing...
Here is a search query I found in my logs:
convert java code to Vb code
At last a release date for Visual Studio 2005... They said "end of summer 2005", they chose the very last days:
September 13-16: Microsoft Professional Developers Conference They still have to change the logo though. It says "PDC 03"...
Update: this seems to be
confirmed.
Update:the official release date is
"the week of November 7".
Frans Bouma gives a clear presentation of three
different ways to see data from an application developer's perspective. It helps to know where you are, and what the alternatives are.
The three approaches are:
- table approach
- entity (Chen/Yourdon) approach
- domain model (Fowler/Evans) approach
I tend to use the entity approach (2), which is most of the time more SOA friendly.
I have a challenge for your memory : when was the last time you saw GotDotNet working?
Personally I haven't seen it working for months! This site is really pitiful.
Of course I would not use it unless I had to, the problem is some people managed somehow to put interesting data in there...
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