november 2006 - Posts

22 november 2006
Cheap skate way to do exception shielding in ASP.NET web services
You read it right. There is a very cheap way to shield exception information from an ASP.NET web service. Mind you, this is available only from ASP.NET 2.0 (and upwards presumably). So, what is exception shielding for web services? Preventing potentially valuable exception information from leaking to... Read More...
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22 november 2006
Learn to use "keyboard only" when programming
Loads of time I see fellow programmers and students of mine struggle with both the keyboard and the mouse when they are programming. Useful at first, but it will slow you down in the end. I’ve tried to adopt a “keyboard only” mode when programming. Meaning that I will only reach for the mouse when really... Read More...
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11 november 2006
Bitslapping contest: LX vs compile on Test integration in VS2005 part 2
Round 2: LX offense, compile defending Continuing the bitslap on unit test integration between Dennis and myself. Time to counter the first round . Ready, set, go. VS2005 comes with three frameworks for testing: Unit testing (in assembly Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework) Web testing... Read More...
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10 november 2006
Microsoft Photosynth technology preview
Microsoft Labs has released a tech preview of Photosynth . It is a web application that will show a 3D scene through a large series of photos. The site features several collections of photos, such as the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy and the Grassi Lakes in Canada. It is full of 3D animation and... Read More...
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10 november 2006
Cool Windows XP Theme: Zune
Normally I don’t change the appearance of my OS very much. But when I came across this Zune theme I did anyway (through theWPFblog right here ). I love the small fonts on the caption bars and the dark color is pleasant to the eyes. Read More...
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08 november 2006
Bitslapping contest: LX vs compile on Test integration in VS2005
Round 1: compile offense, LX defending Colleague Dennis (irl, compile in CS and WoW ) tries to give a few punches . He thinks that NUnit is a better testing framework than the one supplied by VS2005 (Team Edition for Developers, Testers and the Team Suite) I can’t do in VS2005 what he can with... Read More...
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08 november 2006
.NET 3.0 balloon joke
On theWPFblog you can see the celebration of the release of the .NET Framework 3.0. This post shows a nice set of balloons over the logo and release date of .NET FX 3.0. Real nice demonstration of the possibilities of WPF, … except that it is a Flash animation! Read More...
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08 november 2006
Is Linq to SQL here to stay?
A couple of days ago the October 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Orcas appeared. Loads of people blogged about it appearing, but I get the impression not a lot of people actually played with it. In the meantime Pablo Castro from the ADO.NET data team just posted on their weblog that: “ Also, since the ADO... Read More...
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07 november 2006
Sneak peak at Linq from C# 3.0 perspective
You might be wondering where all this C# 3.0 is going. Especially when reading the previous post on Lambda expressions . Let me give you a sneak preview of how Linq needs most of what’s in C# 3.0. Linq uses lambda expressions quite heavily. Linq expresses queries with query operators, which essentially... Read More...
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07 november 2006
C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 5: Lambda expressions
Time to continue with the longest running series on C# 3.0. Lambda expressions originated from lambda calculus and found its way into functional languages such as Lisp and Haskel . Lambda calculus is all about calculations with functions. Functional programming on the other hand uses the application... Read More...
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02 november 2006
Don't overuse var keyword
Most of the Linq demos that are around show sample query expressions like this (the demos shown are largely from the 101 samples included with the May 2006 CTP): int [] numbers = { 5, 4, 1, 3, 9, 8, 6, 7, 2, 0 }; var lowNums = from n in numbers where n < 5 select n; The point of this posting is that... Read More...
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