februari 2004 - Posts

29 februari 2004
More info for attendees of Blogging Application training

I promised the attendees of the training of last thursday to provide some extra information on ADO.NET ObjectSpaces. Here are some extra hyperlinks to get you started: ObjectMapper Utility and Object Persistence Sample Professional Developer Conference 2003 Sessions and PowerPoints Getting Started with... Read More...

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29 februari 2004
Next column article finished

After a very busy period, I was able to finish the next installment on my Dutch MSDN column. It discusses four options in the .NET Framework to do multithreading. The four techniques discussed are: Thread class ThreadPool class Asynchronous invocation on delegates Asynchronous design pattern It should... Read More...

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28 februari 2004
Last thursday mega-training day

Note: if you are looking for the source code of the Whidbey blogging application, scroll to the end of this entry. We just couldn't have picked a better worse day. Totalling up to a whopping 750 kilometers of traffic jam in The Netherlands (because of some snow), it was a well deserved second place of... Read More...

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27 februari 2004
More Pixar magic

Now that Nemo has been found (see below) Pixar is working on a new movie “The Incredibles“, featuring an elderly superhero. View the teaser trailer here. From Edward de Leau 's weblog. Read More...

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25 februari 2004
All your base are belong to us

We (Jeroen Hartsuiker and I) took a five minute break (well, actually it turned out to be more than five minutes) from preparing our presentation for tomorrow, because I had to call a customer of Twice IT . In the meantime Jeroen went to surf for .NET wisdom on the Internet and found this incredible... Read More...

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23 februari 2004
Thursday blog application day

This thursday (February 26th) Jeroen Hartsuiker (a colleague of mine) and myself will be hosting the free one-day training for Twice IT Training. During that day we explain a lot about blogging applications and the .NET Framework Whidbey. We will do essentially one large demo of live programming. At... Read More...

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22 februari 2004
Assembly resources revisited

In a previous post I mentioned I had built an .NET 1.1 implementation of the assembly resources, as they will appear in the Whidbey framework, for the Van Loon company. It seems only fair that I put the code up (see below), to show the actual implementation. There are three major pieces missing from... Read More...

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20 februari 2004
Object Spaces programming model for an ASP.NET scenario

I just posted these questions on the microsoft.public.objectspaces newsgroup: Lately, I've been wondering what the preferred or best programming model for OS is, in an ASP.NET scenario. By this I mean: how would you program with ObjectSpace or ObjectSet objects in a multithreaded/multiuser environment... Read More...

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19 februari 2004
Pityful me: 100 hits reached

Well, go ahead and laugh all you want: today was the first day my blog got more than 100 hits (103 at the time of this post). I wonder how many hits a guy like Rory Blyth gets a day, or someone like Clemens Vasters . Anyway, after you have stopped chuckling, let me tell you that I got 20 Google hits... Read More...

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19 februari 2004
Dutch .NET bloggers united in OPML

Paul Gielens has created this OPML list of Dutch .NET developers/bloggers , which I mentioned in an earlier post . If you are not on the list (and think you should be), contact Paul at his blog . Read More...

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19 februari 2004
Last person on Whidbey timeframe

I must to be last .NET developer in the world that notices this post on Chris Garty 's weblog on the Whidbey timeframe and beta timing. The information was provided by Scott Guthrie , which should count for something. Bottom line (if you're too lazy to read the post): first beta probably June. There... Read More...

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18 februari 2004
COM+ (Enterprise Services) security

While I programmed quite some VB6 COM+ components, I didn't have the chance yet to do too much of COM+ programming in .NET. I did write an article on it once (included below), but haven't put it all into practice. Today I did a demo on Role Based Security in COM+ using .NET Enterprise Services. I was... Read More...

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15 februari 2004
More on customErrors and session state

In an earlier post I made mention of my observations that the Session variables are cleared when ASP.NET uses its <customErrors defaultRedirect=”YourErrorPage.aspx” mode=“On“ /> section, because noone managed to catch an exception. Since then I came across this article by... Read More...

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15 februari 2004
Nicole has her own weblog

Today I installed dasBlog 1.5 for Nicole (my girlfriend), so she can have her own weblog . Here she will be posting things that are on her mind and stuff regarding the “Witnie” project (see this previous post ). Welcome to the blogosphere, Nicole. Lots of entries to you. Read More...

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14 februari 2004
Lessons learned from Spirit Mars Lander at NASA

This QuickTime movie shows you that the NASA has learned value things from the Spirit Rover. See it here . It's funny. From Chris Sells blog . Read More...

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