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Dynamic Dialogs
Roland Weigelt in a recent blog entry talks about having to spend too much time on producing relatively simple dialogs. In the past, I found myself thinking about this too, mainly because I wanted a dialog (GUI) alternative to providing arguments on the command line.
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Axapta vs Navision
For those involved in MS Business Solutions, or those just wondering about the difference between two of Microsoft's important business solution products - Axapta and Navision, the following (annotated) post by Gerrit Combrink and Rene on the Microsoft.Public.Axapta newsgroup might be helpful:-
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On MSH - The Longhorn Command Shell
The Longhorn command shell - MSH (Microsoft Shell)- was announced at the 2003 PDC.
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What's New in MS CRM 1.2
A good summary of what's new in Microsoft CRM 1.2 can be found here.
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Hiatus
It's been a while since I last blogged, having been heads down on a number of projects - some interesting - some more mundane. All, nonetheless, offering lessons to be learnt.
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Quote of the Week
“I think Sun doesn't really understand what a software company does.“
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Indigo and .NET's Context Architecture Part 2
Following on from my previous post about Indigo and .NET's context architecture, it seems we may have the answer as to how a rich services framework (Indigo?) is going to be made easily accessible to users... call context...
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Alintex Script .NET 1.2 Released
Alintex Script .NET 1.2 is now available for download at www.alintex.com.
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Speculating on Indigo and .NET's Context Architecture
Indigo is a codename for a new technology being announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2003
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ASP.NET Web Hosting
Some time ago, we went through the process of finding a new hosting company as part of our move to ASP.NET.
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A Faster Java* than Java - Code Available
The Java and C# code described in the earlier post - A Faster Java* than Java - is now available at http://www.alintex.com/scripts-exe.aspx
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Using a Script to NGEN an Assembly
The message - "Creating .NET Native Executable Images..." - that appears during installation of Alintex Script .NET, has generated a lot of questions from users. Some are hopeful, that it means that one can compile a .NET application to native code, while others just want to know how the installer does it.
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Generics with VB.NET and JScript.NET
Reading one of Sam Gentile's old weblog entries regarding late binding brought to mind a conversation I had recently with a VB.NET developer.
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Alintex Script .NET 1.1 Released
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.NET Integrated Scripting Limitations
The subject of dynamic compilation and unloading of assemblies in relation to the .NET VSA namespaces came up in discussion today.
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Catching Exceptions in Alintex Script
Some of the more eagle eyed amongst those who read my my previous post about writing a 'whois' script with Alintex Script .NET 1.1, pointed out that the code didn't handle exceptions.
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About 'The Missing Future' in Software
I found Eric Kidd's article (via James Avery) about 'The Missing Future' in software both interesting and a little sad.
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Java 2 JFC Swing Library Released for J#
Microsoft have released a Supplemental UI Library for Visual J#.NET 1.1 which provides much of the functionality described in the Java 2 JFC Swing specification, as well as much of the functionality found in the JDK 1.2 java.util package. Updated versions of the Microsoft Visual J# .NET class libraries are also included.
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A Faster Java* than Java?
Looking for a faster Java?
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A Birds Eye View of a Whois Script
In my last post, I showed the code for a "hello world" script supported by the soon to be released Alintex Script .NET 1.1.
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More Hello World
As my previous "hello world" post generated a lot of emails, I thought I would offer some clarification.
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A new Hello World?
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Obfuscating...
As time gets closer to ship, I'm pretty happy with obfuscated code like that shown below. Especially, as all those "|" symbols really are the same symbol in the PE file - rather than different (and hence traceable) undisplayable symbols.
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Finding that Type in a Hurry
A free VS.NET utility I find helpful is QuickJump by Thierry Bouquain. Its character incremental search lets you quickly find, then jump to code.
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Improving the VS.NET Build Output Pane
One annoyance with the VS.NET IDE is the less than helpful build output pane displayed on completion of a build. As shown below it's not particularly descriptive.
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A NET 1.1 Dilemma?
Should one consider releasing a product built against the 1.1 framework rather than 1.0? Is it reasonable to insist on installation of the 1.1 framework, or is that unreasonable at this point from a marketing perspective?
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What is a Script?
Cory Smith, implies in a comment to my line feed post, that a compiled language (VB.NET) and scripting are mutually exclusive.
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Retrieving Embedded Resources in VS
Embedding resources in my assembly and thenretrievingthemis somewhat easier than the convoluted method I have been using to date.
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Line Feeds in VB
Sometimes it's the simple things that stump you. I'm converting somecode from C# to VB. What followed was a bit ofhead scratchingover what appeared to be the most trivial of tasks.
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Confusing Web Services?
Discussing service oriented architectures with a number of developers recently, made me realize that there is real confusion about how an ASP.NET XML Web Service should be implemented architecturally.
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A Wiki Weblog
SnipSnap is an interesting amalgamation of a wiki with a weblog written in Java.
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Adam Bosworth on SOA
John Udell recounts a great talk given by Adam Bosworth of BEA at the CTO Forum on Service Oriented Architectures.
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Feeling Nostalgic
These two articles on the history of Windows on neowin.net include a lot of screenshots for those feeling nostalgic for some of the early versions of Windows.
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Posting against your Dotnetweblog using InfoPath
Tim Marman writes...
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The Three Hour Rule and Blog-Stress
Ole Eichhorn's article (via John Udell) which includes his three-hour rule, is a great read for anyone like me trying to fit an increasing amount of stuff in my day.
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InfoPath 'Submit' - Where Art Thou?
An initial couple of sessions with the InfoPanel Beta certainly highlights for me what a great product MS have produced. For me - it is so much more intuitive and user friendly than Altova's Authentic, although the fact that Authentic is now free means that another look is warranted.
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Mapping a schema to parts of an Excel 2003 workbook
This downloadable video shows how one can map a schema to parts of an Excel 2003 workbook.
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Why Visual Tools for Office?
The forthcoming release of Visual Studio Tools for Office, begs the question - why not include .NET runtime scripting in Office? What about VSA?