MS Digest from Deepak
Got this interesting digest from Deepak [MS]
From Deepak (MS)
During last few days I came across some interesting (and not so interesting) stuff which I thought I’d share with you…
a.) VB vs. VB.NET: Here is a recent benchmark that we published: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/benchmarks/. Bottom-line – “Visual Basic .NET Significantly outperforms Visual Basic 6.0”. Unfortunately it’s a nile benchmark and talks mostly about asp/asp.net – worse it ropes in Windows Server 2003/IIS6 which dilutes the VB vs. VB.NET scenario a little. Still worth a look.
b.) We have had to make some changes to the way IE works with Active X controls. This might break some of your code. I highly recommend taking a quick look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/. Here is a short synopsis on what’s in it:
“This section describes changes to Internet Explorer's handling of ActiveX controls and Java applets. Developers who build ActiveX controls, Web developers who use ActiveX and Java Applets on their Web sites, and developers who host the Web Browser OC or MSHTML should consult this documentation to understand how the user experience is changing, and also how to modify their pages to manage the user experience for their content.”
c.) After 100 VB.NET samples, its now turn of some neat C# samples. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/downloads/samples/23samples/default.aspx. Some of them address interesting FAQs like “Read and Write Images to a SQL Server Database with C#”, “Implementing Drag and Drop in Windows Forms with C#” and “Creating a Masked Edit Control using .NET Framework Regular Expressions with C#”. Worth a look!
e.) Some commentary on Viruses on Linux vs. Windows: “Linux vs. Windows viruses: a rebuttal”, http://www.virusbtn.com/news/latest_news/granneman