Saturday, May 11, 2002

One of the more interesting features of C# is the indexer. This article explains how it enables you to treat a class like an array. Meanwhile, Capturing and processing keyboard input from the user are still important tasks in various Windows programs. Depending on which keys you want to process, there are several techniques for capturing and processing keyboard input.  The questions I get asked most about in .NET have to do with the role (or lack thereof) of COM in .NET. Yes, while its true that traditional COM components do not play an role in .NET other than as legacy components, COM+ components and services still play the important role of creating Enterprise Applications using .NET involving transactions and such. In the article, aptly titled O COM+ Where Art Thou, Rocky Lhotka, explains it. Being a good .NET Programmer requires a fundamental understanding of Garbage Collection. 3:00:31 PM

Mike Deem:: I think I need to say this in an unambiguous way as possible:  We (meaning the SOAP community as embodied on soapbuilders) have done a damn fine job working around and within these specifications to deliver an amazingly interoperable cross platform messaging infrastructure. It is an accomplishment that ranks very high on the all time list of truly wonderful things that have happened with computers. We should be very proud of this. [deem] Bravo and 100% agreed. I'd like to see the arguing back and forth stop. SOAP is what the world is using, Period. 1:59:19 PM

According to the Rotor Mailing list. Dave Stutz, will have a Rotor book: I know of several books currently being written that will discuss Rotor either as explanatory material for the Microsoft commercial CLR, as a basis for academic projects, or as a CLI implementation. Geoff Shilling (who leads the Rotor group), Ted Neward, Brian Jepson, and I are currently working on a book for O'Reilly that will have source code on CD and covers the CLI component model and how Rotor implements it. Here is a link to the pre-release info: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/ We're writing as fast as we can :) -- David Stutz 1:49:11 PM

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