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C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variables or not. An interesting discussion is going on about...
Ok, well, this is a catchy title, but this is the way I feel right now. When Acropolis was announced, it was supposed to become the industrialized replacement for the CAB (Composite UI Application Block) and the SCSF (Smart Client Software Factory). Unfortunately...
Andres Aguiar started an interesting discussion about disconnected operation and change tracking in the ADO.NET Entity Framework . Andres regrets that the Entity Framework doesn't provide change tracking information: This basically means that if you...
As we are about to reach an important step with the LINQ in Action book that will make the first bits public, we start to look back at what we did and how it happened. Steve , who is working on the book with me, says that writing a book is hard . Roy...
A Java developer reports that the management of the group he works for inside a contractor company has decided to move from Java to .NET. The developer gives the reasons he sees behind this decision. I guess we could sum up what he writes like this: ...
Two months ago, I've been contacted by a lawyer who asked me, on behalf of his client - SUN Microsystems, to change the name of my site http://JavaToolbox.com . As you can tell from the name, this site references the development tools and libraries, like...
Microsoft's developer division is now engaging on MQ, a milestone that is post-Whidbey and pre-Orcas that will focus on quality . This sounds good. A focus on quality is always good. But Eric, are some of you working on the upcoming VS 2005 service pack...
I've just read an interesting post from Scoble (a Microsoft employee) where he writes that Google has disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft. This got me thinking one thing about Microsoft. For Microsoft employees, everything should be Microsoft...
Windows Live: Scott Hanselman doesn't get it . I don't need these products either, we have other products elsewhere. But my point is that I'm not so sure the new "Windows" branding everywhere will be good for adoption... This change is already happening...
Paschal complains that using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 in real world is not that easy . I think a lot of teeth grinding is to be expected next year in enterprises when managers wondering why there is a sudden productivity drop will have to hear that people...
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