maart 2006 - Posts

29 maart 2006
RAD Race 2006 results: Class-A finishes 4th
A while ago I blogged about Class-A participating in the RAD Race 2006 . The team that spent two days in a too small room with about 25 other people consisted of Dennis van der Stelt and myself. We had to wait quite a while to get the results, but they were announced today at the Database Systems 2006... Read More...
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28 maart 2006
C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 2: Implicit typing
Forget all you know about variables that are declared "var"! You probable know about var in JavaScript. Yes, you should forget that too. Microsoft took quite a chance by choosing the "var" keyword in C#. var has nothing to do with previous uses of the keyword. So, what is it for then? The C# 3.0 compiler... Read More...
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26 maart 2006
C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 1: Extension methods
Pick a .NET class, any class. Take a class from the .NET Framework. Is there any method that you think is missing from that class? Let's say you picked the ArrayList. Too bad it does not have a Concat method, that will take the ToString() of every object in the ArrayList and concatenate it to one big... Read More...
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26 maart 2006
The road to Linq: C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 0
It's not the easiest of documents to read: the C# 3.0 specification . On my recent endeavours with Linq and DLinq in particular, I read through it. Most of what is new in C# 3.0 is there to make the Language Integrated Queries possible. The spec is very technical, so I thought I would break it down into... Read More...
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25 maart 2006
See Microsoft marketing taken to the iPod packaging
Ever wondered what would happen if Microsoft had designed the packaging for the iPod? Well, check the movie here through YouTube . Rumor has it that employees from Microsoft have created this parody. More rumor that Microsoft even confirmed that it originated the movie . Thanks to Roel for pointing me... Read More...
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17 maart 2006
Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition released
About 10 minutes ago I was browsing through the MSDN subscriber website and wanted to download the Release Candidate of Team Foundation Server. I had created my first TFS Team Project earlier this day on the project that I am now working on at Qurius/ETX . I must have been there at a lucky moment, because... Read More...
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12 maart 2006
Questions during DevDays
While at the DevDays several people came up to me after the sessions. A couple of them had very interesting questions. Constantijn Enders of LogicaCMG asked me where to catch any exceptions that are thrown during an asynchronous page or task. I responded that it should be in the End... handler for the... Read More...
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12 maart 2006
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and ASP.NET 2.0 combine forces
When I was writing up the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) demo for Astrid Hackenberg I found out something nice. (For a primer on XSS, check a previous post ). I noticed that it was not possible to steal the cookie using JavaScript. That could mean only one thing: HttpOnly cookies. I did not post anything... Read More...
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09 maart 2006
Collaboration between Client Callbacks and Event Validation
Unfortunately I was not able to cover all details on client callbacks and event validation during my talk at the Developer Days. I did find out some interesting things on the combination. Let me tell you about it. When a callback is made from a ASP.NET 2.0 web page or control that supports Client Callbacks... Read More...
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09 maart 2006
Developer Days 2006 slides and demos
Here are the slides and demo code to my DevDays 2006 presentation "ASP.NET 2.0 Black Belt". Make sure you check the hidden slides as well. There's some nice extra info on them. Also, if you visited my talk on the first day, notice the updated slide on the architecture of Query Notifications. I'll explain... Read More...
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