Ben S. Stahlhood II's Blog
.NET Framework Discussions
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Whidbey Goodness: Part 1
This is my first post of hopefully many that will touch on the various features I am coming across while using the Whidbey Community Technology Preview. All I can say for my self is that Whidbey is everything I had hoped for in the next version of Visual Studio. A lot of new controls, existing controls are polished, and a lot of new designer / environment features.
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Whidbey Community Technology Preview
I can not believe it has been almost a month since I posted last. I apologize for the lack of posts.
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RSS Aggregators
I was hoping some of you out there could give me some feedback on an excellent RSS Aggregator. I have tried various onces out and just can not find one I am happy with. So please let me know of some good ones out there I can try out.
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.NET Evaluations
You see it everyday. IT Personnel and developers comparing .NET to Java and other languages. Some of the larger complaints I see, is the fact that the current set of languages besides Java Script .NET, are not dynamic enough. Developers want more loosely typed and typeless languages. I found a couple good articles over at Info World:
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Fresh Start
I got a new laptop the other day. I have been sick for the past week. Real nasty stuff. I spent the past couple days preparing my new machine and moving all my data over. I got one of those new Sony Vaio PCG-GRT360ZG's. All I can say is this XBrite tehchnology is just too nice. This screen is one of the best I have seen on a laptop. The only draw back to this thing is the weight. It is almost 10lbs!
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.NET & IT Automation
There is a great article over at theserverside.net (http://www.theserverside.net/articles/article.aspx?l=Automation) that talks about the opportunities that are available using Windows Services and the .NET Framework FCL to automate IT tasks.
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Spam Filtering
I have noticed as I am sure everyone else is noticing, that SPAM is now misspelling words or rearranging words to get past current SPAM filters. You would think the next step would to put in a spell checked type system at the mail server level. With a misspelled word thresh-hold. We all have spell checkers on our mail programs. This would then get us to use them more and allow the blocking of SPAM with unrecognized words in it, which for the most part is almost every SPAM message I get.
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Software innovation is dead?
There is an interesting article over at NewsForge (http://www.newsforge.com/programming/04/02/05/1828243.shtml?tid=105&tid=25) that talks about software innovation being dead. I agree with the author on some of his points, but I feel that a lot of the new technologies like Longhorn and the .NET Framework will spark a new boom of innovative software over the next 10 - 15 years.
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The C# Design Process
For those of you who have not seen this or read it yet, you should definitely check it out!
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Enumerating Hashtables
A lengthy thread was started about enumerating a hashtable and modifying the values. The individual was getting the standard modification within a foreach exception thrown. I had suggested the following code and I seem to have the shortest and easiest method in doing so...