Saturday, April 13, 2002

I updated some of my .NET information yesterday I updated some of the technical info on my web site yesterday. I (think!) I updated these: http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/dotnet.htm http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/DotNetOverview.htm http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/clr.htm http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/managed.htm http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/Assemblies.htm http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/COMInterop.htm 4:33:48 PM

I thought this would change when I finished the book. Here I am on another Saturday (actually one in which its 70 degrees plus in April NH!!), working on writing again and not spending time with Sue or Jonathan. The only saving grace is that I am listening to an incredible live Gabriel/Genesis live 1973 at the Roxy (before Phil destroyed them) while I work. Comments came back from two reviewers on my Wrox Press UK article on "Doing Web Forms with Managed C++." Of course, the reviewers didn't even get the premise of the article: showing that it is possible and how with Managed C++ and not doing it in place of C# or VB.NET. Gosh darn it. C#, C#, C#. Chris Sells asked me something about limited audience for my Managed C++ book. So what? I do it because it is so darn hard and because everyone and their brother does C# books and articles (the current media darling). I can tell you this: I have done .NET work for 3 different places in 2 years and there is very tiny amounts of C# development being done in real production (as in products) projects. To be honest, most of the work guys is taking all these millions of lines of existing C++ or COM code and integrating it and working with it in the managed world. And there is only one way to do that folks: write a managed wrapper in Managed C++. 2:46:50 PM

Peter Drayton managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: Google2RSS is a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits. 8:44:29 AM

XML Web Services Security Architecture Announced Microsoft and IBM announce this general purpose XML Web services roadmap and together with VeriSign, the foundation specification, WS-Security. Learn how these will enable you to easily develop interoperable secure XML Web services.  (April 10, Article)   More... Microsoft's site for the WS_SECURITY doc 8:26:21 AM

Microsoft .NET: Implement a Custom Common Language Runtime Host .... Peter: Anyone out there interested in testing a little late-night Google hack? Subscribe to my new RSS feed with the top 10 Google hits for the CLR Methinks you need a better late-night social life-) Seriously though this is pretty darn cool, Peter. Now, if you just have it changed for the interesting part of .NET - Managed C++ -) Microsoft .NET: Implement a Custom Common Language Runtime Host .... ... Rate this page: 26 users, 4.0 out of 5. Microsoft .NET: Implement a Custom Common Language Runtime Host for Your Managed App. ... [In the CLeaR]   8:12:08 AM

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