Ever heard the term 'Alternative rock' ? It's a term for rock music which isn't mainstream. Or something. Anyway, read the wikipedia page for the fine print . I'm a metal fan (despite the pile of trance house music I've created in a dark past ) and once in a while I listen to alternative rock to ease...

If you're using C# and VS.NET 2008 and you're typing some code like: CustomCollection<MyType> items = new CustomCollection<MyType>() foreach(OtherType other in OtherTypeCollection) { items.Add(CreateItemFromOtherType(other)); } where CustomCollection<MyType> implements IList explicitly...

The Windows Forms combobox control contains a nasty a lot of people who will try .NET 2.0 applications on .NET 3.0 will run into: the Sorted property makes comboboxes unable to bind to data: they stay empty. This is particular bad, because any solid working application for .NET 2.0 using comboboxes in...

I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title explains it all. Today I got a reply (whoa, after...

First, read the announcement here . Had that deja-vu yet? Me too . But let's not get into that right now, because I do think the Entity Framework situation is different from the WinFS/ObjectSpaces situation. So what's going on here? The following is my speculation why they've cut it from .NET 3.5/Orcas...

I was unhappily surprised this morning when I compiled a new build of an assembly and changed the assembly file version attribute from 2.0.0.061005 to 2.0.0.070105: I got this wicked warning from the C# compiler: warning CS1607: Assembly generation -- The version '2.0.0.070105' specified for the 'file...

Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis ) Update: Scott Guthrie writes that you should uninstall the Web Application Project add-in first if you have that one installed, as the SP1 installer chokes on that. At the moment, the SP1 installer is already busy for more than...

Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss , our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses LLBLGen Pro v2.0 power for 100% of the data-access functionality. HnD is...

After nagging about it for a long time, it seems Microsoft finally understood that getting a hotfix for VS.NET 2005 was too cumbersome for a lot of people (outside the US, calling PSS isn't a picknick). So they decided to start a pilot program to see if downloadable hotfixes will make a difference !...

URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/10/11/647.aspx This video (screencast) for the podcast is on the subject of the Basics of Building Sql Server 2005 CLR Objects The WMV and MP4 (for video iPod users) files are in the feed.