maart 2004 - Posts

29 maart 2004
Newer build of ObjectSpaces in VS.NET 2005

In contrast to what Dinesh Kulkarni, Program Manager said at the MSDN webcast, Visual Studio .NET 2005 does contain a newer build of ObjectSpaces. And that build contains many new features. Here are some highlights of what I saw in the half hour that I had time to look into it: Support for Generics:... Read More...

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28 maart 2004
Daily laughs and water polo

Todays daily laugh comes from the website JibJab . I need a laugh myself. We lost (again) today playing water polo to the team that is second to last. Yes, shamefully, we are last. Ah well, the first ladies won 10-4 playing the third ranked team in their competition. One match to go to win their competition... Read More...

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26 maart 2004
Variable step ordinary differential equation solver

Warning: Mega-nerd stuff ahead. Way back, when I hadn't derailed into programming yet (or did I?) I wrote a Object Oriented Visual C++ program to perform “identification” of mechanical systems. Identification is the process of determining certain parameters of a system, such as directly measurable... Read More...

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24 maart 2004
No updates of ObjectSpaces in Community Previews

If you watched the ADO.NET ObjectSpaces webcast on MSDN (you should be able to see a recording there in a few days), you may have noticed that the slidedeck was largely the same as the one used at the PDC (DAT410). I was only able to catch the last 30 minutes of the webcast, because I had to go to the... Read More...

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24 maart 2004
Community previews of Visual Studio 2005

Man, I won't be there, but I still want to get my hands on one of the “community previews” that will be handed out at VSLive. CRN 's Barbara Darrow reports on other things ( delaying of Microsoft Business Framework ), but also mentions: “ In related news, developers eager to see the... Read More...

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23 maart 2004
Some webthingies

During my Visual InterDev (Yes, back to good ol' VS 6.0) course this week I have some time left to do browsing. One nice site that I found is through Peter Provost's Geek Noise blog. Go check out World66 and create amazing pictures like this one: On the site you can select the countries that you visited... Read More...

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23 maart 2004
MSDN Webcast on ObjectSpaces tomorrow

Just found out about this today. I hope you read this in time. There's a MSDN Webcast on ADO.NET ObjectSpaces on Wednesday, March 24th (which is tomorrow!) at 11.00 Pacific Time. For European mainland readers this will be at 20.00 hours. If you are on time go here , get registered, watch and enjoy. Read More...

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21 maart 2004
Hidden members in ObjectSpaces

If you have worked with ObjectSpaces you might wonder what hidden members are all about. The documentation is pretty slim here: "If you do not want to display the unique identifier value for a particular class, you can use the Hidden attribute to specify whether the Member is visible by the class or... Read More...

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18 maart 2004
Return of Nintendo: Mario Twins

Update: I discovered that my direct link to the Mario Twins page is not working all of the time. Here is the page that links in a more official way. Just click on “Watch this movie“. One of my clan pals (Remco van Dalen aka Gunter aka Divinity) showed me this funny Flash movie of the Mario... Read More...

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14 maart 2004
ObjectPersistence Toolkit

Nizar posted a message on the news:microsoft.public.objectspaces group with a question on the ObjectPersistence Toolkit. He got an Exception from System.Data.SqlXml with an error message when trying to persist an object from a class that's essentially the same as this one: namespace Console_persistence... Read More...

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14 maart 2004
Visual Studio.NET 2005 it is

Daniel Fernandez has put up some words on Whidbey becoming VS.NET 2005 . He also addresses several other points, e.g. why there are no service packs for VS.NET 2003 and .NET 1.1. That sure got a lot of comments streaming in. Frans Bouma did his fair bit of adding comments and wrote about it on his blog... Read More...

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14 maart 2004
COM+ deployment with COMREPL

This week I was teaching another round of the course MOC2557 called Building COM+ applications using Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services. Another week to dive further into COM+ and look into things unexplored before. With this course I always seem to "loose" some students over the week. The last two times... Read More...

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13 maart 2004
Ken Muse improves WebResourceHandler

Last Tuesday I got an email from Ken Muse, asking for the source code of the WebResourceHandler. You couldn't download it, because I was smart enough (not!) to upload the .cs file. I've since changed the file to a zip file. Anyway, Ken was the first who ran into this problem and actually contacted me... Read More...

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06 maart 2004
Using the ValueMerging event of an ObjectReader

In a previous post on concurency error handling in ObjectSpaces I spoke of the three versions that an object has: the current in-memory representation, the original values of the properties during the time of materialization and the persistent values, being the values stored in the database. It became... Read More...

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06 maart 2004
It happened again: blogging concurrency

Just like last time , Paul Wilson has posted something on the same topic at practically the same time: optimistic concurrency. Fortunately he's talking on other aspects related to this. Pfeew. Read my entry on it here . Read More...

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