Luciano Evaristo Guerche

A brazilian geek interested in .NET technologies

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June 2004 - Posts

Visual Studio 2005 - Edition x Feature comparison chart
I have read a lot of blogging posts and some MSDN articles about Visual Studio 2005, but have not found a comparison chart anywhere. What I and problably many out there wanted is a chart like the one below.

 Visual Studio 2005 Edition
FeaturesAcademicExpressProfessionalEnterprise DeveloperEnterprise ArchitectTeam System DeveloperTeam System Architect(and so on)...
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If someone out there know of a place such information can be found, comment the link on this post or trackback it, please.
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched
I must give some of the Express Editions a try. Let's start downloading right now...

[Via Christa Carpentiere]
[Via Duncan Mackenzie]
[Via Benjamin Mitchell]
[Via Tim Sneath]
[Via Bill McCarthy]
[Via Robert Scoble]
[Via Chris Sells]
[Via Kent Sharkey]
[Via Kent Sharkey]
[Via Dan Fernandez]
[Via Shawn Wildermuth]
Problems syndicating some feeds lately
I have had problems syndicating some feeds lately. Can someone out there help me anyway? I send feedback to the webmasters, but no answer so far.

4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines. Could not read this feed due to invalid XML or the feed is in HTML. This may correct itself when the author updates the feed. The error was: O caractere '1', valor hexadecimal 0x31, não pode ser iniciado por um nome. Linha 20, posição 65..

Maxim V. Karpov
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Video - Jeff Julian and Jason Beres ( How INETA Academic works with Microsoft on the Imagine Cup competition)

The buzz has been circulating about the Imagine Cup finals in São Paulo, Brazil from July 2nd to July 8th. Jeff is set to go. Amy is set to go. Scoble is jealous. 

In this video clip, INETA Academic Committee co-chairs Jeff Julian and Jason Beres talk about what the Imagine Cup is, and how INETA Academic is involved with the Microsoft sponsored event. Jeff and Jason have been invited as judges to the event.

Click here to view the video.

Video Info:
Size: 6.7MB
Length: 1min 23sec

 

[Via Eric C. King, Microsoft C# Most Valued Professional]

Were is that firewall ?
Since I came here to Mauritius, I have been exposed to an unfair amount of beauty. So much so that this simply cannot be natural. There must be something filtering out any woman that is not beautiful (the only ones you might come across are mainly tourists)... can it have something to do with the sugar cane plantations covering every peace of land that is not a village or beach?
[Via Abdelmalek Kemmou - Microsoft Regional Director for Casablanca, Morocco]
Lots of new Israeli .Net Bloggers around!
Mordy Shahar joins the Israeli .Net Bloggers crowed. Along with Ohad and Avner, he's also working at Magen with me. Keep your eyes open on this one. I hear he has a lot to say. Hey Mordy - not more hiding for you.
I now have 22 Israeli .Net Bloggers listed on my site. Ah - I remember a time there were like 2 or three.
What about you? Are you in Israel? wanna blog too? contact me and I'll tell you how to start quick and easy. The more knowledge we share - the more knowledge we get.
[Via Roy Osherove, from Israel]
A sneak preview of Visual Basic 2005 (article) is up on MSDN...
This new article from Ken Getz provides an overview of many of the new features in Visual Basic 2005, including "My", "Edit and Continue", "AutoCorrect", "Just My Code" and more...
Check it out here
[Via Duncan Mackenzie, Microsoft Developer Network Visual Basic Content Strategist]
Best VB bloggers
A few weeks ago, I asked for recommendations for non-Microsoft VB bloggers. Without further ado, here are the lists...

“Community Seal of Approval” Blogs (blogs that got at least one recommendation)

“Not Afraid to Toot My Own Horn“ Blogs (blogs that recommended themselves)

“Honorable Mention“ Blogs (blogs that weren't mentioned but probably should have been)

If there are any you think I missed, feel free to add more comments!

[Via Paul Vick]
ADO -> ADO.NET migration
John Papas has an interesting article on the topic in the current issue of MSDN Magazine, Migrating from ADO to ADO.NET. His approach is pretty straight-forward - "Here's x in ADO, here's what it has become in ADO.NET, here are the differences/enhancements/etc" - which I think is helpful for someone who hasn't worked with ADO.NET much yet & is trying to get a handle on how the technologies map to each other.

If you are getting close to actually porting code, I'd recommend also reading Bill Vaughn's take on the subject, Migrating Code and Concepts from ADO "Classic" to ADO.NET. He comes at it from a more conceptual level - "What are your routines in ADO actually doing, and how can you get the same or better functionality in ADO.NET?" Between the two articles you should be able to get the conceptual underpinnings you'll need to get you started.

[Via Christa Carpentiere]
Reverse Enum Lookup

Sometimes you may have the string name of an enumeration identifier, and want its enum type. For example, you write a enum identifier as a string to a file and want to read it back and obtain the original enumeration type. This takes place when you serialize a class to an XML file and deserialize it back using XmlSerializer.

private enum Direction {North, South, East, West};

private Direction ParseDirection(string name)
{ return (Direction) Enum.Parse(typeof(Direction), name, true); }

[Via Noah Coad]

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