Thursday, July 25, 2002

I had been putting titles on a lot off stuff, honest-). Of course, it was foolish of me to rely on the Radio Prefs settings "Item-level Title and Link?" thinking that they did what they said. You actually have to do this which is kind of foolish as the prefs settings should insert a line like this into the HTML. Oh well. Argh!!! It's only doing it on the main home page. Does anyone know how to fix this?? 10:22:57 PM

.NET HandleCollector source and sample. "Basically the class keeps track of the list of outstanding handles, and when it reaches a certain threshold it can force a GC. Basically the goal here is to do a cheap and easy extension to the GC to try and teach it about the relative expensive of unmanaged objects." This is the way that GDI+ deals with unmanaged resource reclamation and can be used for your own non-memory resources. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:05:32 PM

Beta-2 of Nunit 2.0 is available. [DOTNET-PRODUCTS] [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:05:10 PM

Streams and Formatters in .NET. [Drew's Blog] 9:59:46 PM

A good time for .NET. It seems to me that .NET is poised in a very good position.  Let me explain. Throughout Java's past a lot of development has happened to make it a practical tool for developers.  ...Now .NET comes along 5+ years later.  It's based on a lot of the good points from Java but much more refined and incorporated with support for current technologies such as XML and WebServices. All developers who develop with C++ stand up and say "I'm Smart" All developers who develop with VB stand up and say "I have a life" Now all developers who develop with C# stand up and say "I am smart and I have a life" - paraphrasing Don Box's talk on C# at VS Live 2001[StronglyTyped - Richard Caetano's weblog on software development] Yes, you got it. That's the whole point in a nutshell. 9:55:06 PM

You can sign up now to receive free trial software for Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1 (RC1)—via CD or download Thank you for your interest in the Windows® .NET Server Customer Preview Program! Your request to download Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1 is being processed. Requests will be processed in the order that they were received. You will receive an e-mail notification which covers full download instructions and information on newsgroup support within 2 business weeks. Argh! 9:03:31 AM

The ObjectList mobile web control is one of the most powerful and versatile of the controls that are provided as part of the Mobile Internet Toolkit. This example demonstrates the use of this control to update and delete content in a database from any browser capable mobile device. 9:00:14 AM

In this How-To, the author shows you how to build a Web Form to handle redirects to binary files, such as MP3's or images, when the path information is stored in an Access database. 8:59:14 AM

Now that you know how to create custom controls, creating and handling postbacks is not that much harder and this article will take you through it. 8:58:37 AM

dotMSN is a class library to make use of the MSN Messenger Service. The library is built in C# and can therefore be used by all languages the .NET environment supports. 8:56:57 AM

A big welcome to Paresh Suthar, who has taken the plunge into blogging. His Bio does not quite do him justice. He would be the last person to be touting his horn but I would like to for a minute. I have had the wonderful opportunity of working alongside Paresh for most of the last 7 months at Groove and found him to be one of the smartest and most capable developers I have met and worked with. Paresh is a master of COM. However, he was able to quickly pick up .NET information from me and others and was a driving force in working with me to solve our huge COM Interop issues resulting in the delivery of Groove Interops (RCWs) and the TuneTown sample in the Groove GDK 2.0. He has now become a .NET Guy. He was also very instrumental in helping us with the Groove Toolkit for VS.NET in 2.1. His group's cool work with SharePoint is brilliant. Paresh is also one of the most patient people I know and a joy to be around. Welcome again. 8:29:01 AM

InfoWorld: Microsoft embeds HailStorm into .Net. "Contrary to reports that Microsoft has abandoned its HailStorm technology, company officials have revealed plans to embed components of the XML schema and data-access technology throughout its .Net application, server, and client stack." [almostperfect] 8:04:21 AM

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