Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET
Public Shared Function BrainDump(ByVal dotNet As String) As [Value]
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Congratulations ScottW
I was the first to say it last time, and I'll be the first to say it again. Congratulations Scott on the new version of the Weblogs. It looks extremely professional, and I love the new selection of skins. I can't wait to pimp mine out with .NET-related graphical goodness. The new admin site is extremely clean. Now, I'm just waiting for my stats.... ;)
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.NET Framework Graphics - "No Brainer Compatibility"
Paul Alexander was kind enough to put together a series of really slick graphics elements that were designed to denote which version of the .NET Framework a particular component was compiled to. This is ideal in situations where you either a) only have one compiled version of your app, or b) have separate installers for each version.
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Special Thanks
I'd like to take a minute to give a special thanks to Roy Osherove for his assistance this morning in tracking down a particularly nasty bug in my XML format support for GenX.NET this morning. I'll go into specific details later about what happened, and what a still unexplained nuisance, but I can finally grab a quick nap, knowing that the code for GenX.NET is now officially 100% complete.
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Newbies Pay Attention
Ok, this may be common knowledge for most of you, but for the rest listen up:
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Great Idea for an MS Product
My friend Brian had a great idea for an MS Product today. I've dubbed it "CleanSlate". CleanSlate would basically be a hard-drive image on DVD of a system preinstalled with the following, configured to MS best practices:
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Rebutting Scoble on Corporate Secrets
I took some time tonight to reply to Scoble's long awated in-depth conversation about Corporate Secrets. I bugged him to write about this some time back, and I'm glad he got around to it. His blog has been awfully bland lately anyways. If I had a quarter for every time he said "You'll just have to wait until PDC", I might actually be able to afford to go ;).
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Why I Use Visual Studio.NET
I was at RegExLib.com, and I saw this ad:
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Your TabletPC Thoughts?
OK. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna buy a TabletPC. Confronted with the hideous thought of spending the next 6 hours reading documentation on all the Alpha and Beta software I got from MS this week, I cannot think of any other way.
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Cool StringBuilder Tip
One of the great things about the StringBuilder is it's ability to dynamically resize itself for situations where it is dealing with large strings. It was very helpful in building GenX.NET, especially since I wasn't always going to be writing to the file system anymore. Back in the 2.0 days, each time I loaded up a new line, I wrote it to the file system, so performace wasn't really a factor. Now it is. The problem is, however, that this dynamic resizing can sometimes come at a performance hit IF you are adding to your string beyond 1000x.
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Microsoft Sitting Pretty
Courtesy of eWeek: