April 2003 - Posts

27 April 2003
Enterprise Solutions Patterns released
The document I referred to here are now availible from MSDN filled to the rim with good design suggestions, and with contributions by a whole bunch of smart people (Fowler, Cunningham and more..) Read up! : http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/patterns I can't seem to find the pdf I got my hands on... Read More...
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23 April 2003
Delegates in VB.NET
Today I had use VB.NET to alter a gui component, and got curious about the usage of delegates for events. When inheriting a class and wanting to "pass along" this class events it seems as one have to use something called shadows. Public MyClass Inherits SomeClassThatImplementsTheClickEvent Public Shadows... Read More...
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23 April 2003
J2EE vs .NET : rest of the worlds perspective
Sometimes we forget how the rest of the world (read: non-softwaredevelopers) view our industry. I've been searching for sound platform comparisons related to a paper I'm writing on Software Reengineering with J2EE (and want to show how .NET would be the better alternative). Sean Jackson wrote this in... Read More...
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22 April 2003
Get Tiers, Layers, Services, Contracts, and Aspects sorted out with Clemens & Steve
Clemens Vasters and Steve Swartz sorts things out in their upcoming/ongoing Scalable Applications tour. Get a taste from the ppt's availible here. I really enjoyed the first presentation in the list, which has a further elaboration on the architectural topics that were presented at the Architects Tour... Read More...
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21 April 2003
Debugging Web Services over HTTPS
dneimke wrote in this post : "[..]the *crap* I went through today trying to consume a WebService over Https." Consuming Webservices over https is a real pain in the right shoulder. I know. I did a .NET -> J2EE webservice consumer a while ago (and the other way around aswell actually), where everything... Read More...
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18 April 2003
CodeProject got even better
I've written an article describing how i did this and was happy to see that CodeProject has implemented a rather nice article submission function. Earlier they just had a article HTML template and a submissions@codeproject email thing. Really nice. Now it's even easier to contribute. So, for those of... Read More...
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17 April 2003
Remote Happiness
For a long time I've been really really scared of those old guys talking about COM. Fortunately, a while ago, I realized that I probably never had to learn this stuff because I am a pure .NET developer, and I could just simply learn .NET Remoting (an excuse good enough for me). Not that I actually knew... Read More...
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13 April 2003
They have to be joking
In an interessant article on .NET Security in multi tier applications, which is part of the new Patterns & Practices effort from ms, a new feature of Windows 2003 Server is introduced in a note: [snip] The Authorization Manager API, also known as AzMan, provides a ... [snip] They've got to be kidding... Read More...
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04 April 2003
Annoying parameters and exceptions
There are some small annoying discrepancies in the .net framework. Some are real, and some are just due to my lack of understanding of the genious of the designers who made it this way. Today my annoyance was created by the IDbCommand object's Parameters collection. Whilst both the OleDbCommand.Parameters... Read More...
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