Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

Earlier this week I send out an email to numerous friends and colleagues with a great cartoon on blogging.  I have since seen it on at least one recipient's blog, so I figured I should post it here as well.

Yag has a post with a list of Microsoft products that are developed, at least partially, with .NET code.  The list is actually somewhat longer than I had realized.  His post is in response to a claim that .NET Winforms is not really "ready for prime time" since MS isn't developing all of their products in .NET.  His counter-claim is most reasonable - if not obvious.

In my post last night, I mentioned that I had written a compiler in VB6.   If the idea of writing your own compiler intrigues you, you can see some (rather simple) examples that come with the .NET Framework SDK.  Look for them at

Eric Gunnerson had a good post on performance here.  He is addessing the specific issue of the performance of generics, but lays out general principles:

Yes, you read correctly.  A tool to compile x86 assembly language code to .NET IL.
You can download it from here.

You know that I have always been a big proponent of using MSDE, and now SQL Server Express, in low-end systems (I think my first-ever VSLive presentation was on MSDE 1.0).  Hey - the price is right and the upgrade path is simple !

I have had several blog postings in the past that point to some great material by Pat Helland.

November's Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting will be held on November 3, 2004: