Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Cool! Chris Sells just announced that SellsBrothers got a grant from Microsoft Research to "implement and study the performance effects of" adding reference counting to Rotor.[Drew's Blog] He had mini-announced this about a week ago and I knew about this. I'm glad to see the full announcement. He did confirm to me earlier that this will handle the COM problem we have been blogging about. 6:04:24 PM

Hey .NET Fans! I have a new story for you. A lot of my .NET work these days is on a full-blown add-in for VS.NET. I use a lot of VSIP and mix it with some of the powerful new Automation features. I wrote up the start of an article on my web page a while back and I need to add to it. Here is Introduction to .NET languages, VS.NET and Extending VS.NET. I hope you like it. Comments welcome. 2:25:25 PM

What is a News Aggregator?. A news aggregator is a piece of software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page. [Scripting News] Unfortunately, you just added one of the worst things about Radio's aggregator into the definition: reverse chronological order. Not only do I find myself stupidly reading from bottom to top (because I want to follow the proper chronological order!), but I also find it impossible to read my older items (beyond what's on one page) until I've read the newer ones, because all you have is "delete" capabilities, no "next/previous page" capabilities. I can't think I'm the only one frustrated by this limitation... an option is a bare minimum requirement here, IMO (but paging is probably close behind). [The .NET Guy] I agree. I don't think that how the new items are rendered has anything to do with the definition of a news aggregator. I'm toying around with writing my own news aggregator right now, called yaNA (yet another News Aggregator), and some of the features I intend to implement are various methods of filtering (by channel name, title, description, etc.), sorting, and paging. [Drew's Blog] Count me in agreement as well. You are going to write it in C# right Drew? -) 2:09:04 PM

An Extensive Examination of the DataGrid Web Control: Part 5 This well done series continues. 2:02:18 PM

This article demonstrates how to add Visual Styles (the Windows XP look and feel) to your C# application. 9:24:35 AM

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