Archives
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My updated Articles-O-Links...
I have posted new and updated articles (See "Articles" category on right-side of page) in an attempt to organize and consolidate the links to sites, and articles to which I frequently refer people (and myself):
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.NET Compact Framework Development Articles, Sample-code, Reference, etc.
This is a list of Articles and Resources essential for .NET Compact Framework development:
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PDC 2003 Articles on Longhorn, Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, WinFs, etc.
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Essential resources for PDC, Longhorn, Yukon, Whidbey, WinFx, WinFs, etc.
This isnt all-inclusive, but a good start. There are so many articles from MS right now, its going to take a while to catalog.
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Updated Roadmap...
I just noticed that the Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap was updated with much of the information presented earlier this year. However, there is much more text describing each of the projects.
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PDC Blues...
This pretty much sums-up the majority of the reason why I have the PDC Blues this week…
"Whidbey" Content at the PDC
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MSDN Subscribers: Call MSDN Support to order PDC bits...
For those of us MSDN Subscribers missing out on PDC 2003, you can contact MSDN customer support and order a FREE copy (DVD only) of the same bits given-out at PDC. The following was posted on MSDN Subscriber Downloads:
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FooBar rocks!
I'm an admitted audio-quality biggot, so when a coworker introduced me to the audio player utility FooBar, I was skeptical of his claims of it being a better mousetrap. But, now after a little time switching back and forth, listening to the same music on Media Player 9, and FooBar, I have to admit its lack of a descent UI is definitely compensated by its incredible audio-processing.
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An old article on Exceptions for the old argument about Exceptions...
I was recently reminded of Eric Gunnerson's 2001 MSDN article "Writing Exceptional Code". This pretty much sums-up my feelings:
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Never remove a tool from your tool-box!!
Based upon Joel's recent post on the evils of Exception handling, I guess I have been foolish to worry so much about defining best practices in Exception Handling...
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Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess
I'm a newbie to many of the established OO patterns, but am trying to learn. Many months ago, I joined the GDN Workspace for the MS User Interface Application Block. This application block employs Model-View-Controller(MVC) style pattern that intrigued me. Overall, I understood the premise, but frankly ,so far, it seemed too complicated to understand.
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The Pit of Success
I saw this posted on someone's blog recently(sorry, cant remember whose), and sent it to my coworkers:
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Tips for a successful presentation.
Scott Hanselman offers some great tips for pulling-off a successful presentation in his article titled “Scott Hanselman's tips for a successful MSFT presentation.”
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Dell Axim X5 with A05 bios fixed Pocket PC 2003!
last week, I finally received the A05 firmware update for my Axim X5, and it has fixed the system slow downs, and application-hang problems I was having with Windows Mobile 2003 for PocketPC (aka: Pocket PC 2003 OS).
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Exceptions, Error Handling, Try/Catch, etc.
Having spent years developing with Visual Basic I am starting to realize that with the switch to C# and .NET, Exception handling is one core skill I still havent mastered. As a VB programmer I was always a bit anal about proper structure, defensive error handling, and seeking-out best practices. Since the best we had was On Error Goto style error handling, I adapted and "made do" with the tools at hand. However, I always lamented the need for a better tool for Error handling.
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Suzanne Cook's Blog (subscribed)
I recently discovered Suzanne Cook's Blog on the CLR.