Friday, August 30, 2002

A Roadmap to the Recently Released Windows APIs. "There is a common belief among programmers--particularly those disinclined to believe the truth of anything coming out of Redmond--that Windows is full of 'secret functions.' These functions, so the story goes, are used by Microsoft to prevent independent reimplementation of its operating system and to give its own applications programmers an extra advantage. With the August 2002 release of its Platform SDK, Microsoft is complying with the terms of the consent decree it signed with the Department of Justice in November 2001. ... If you are one of the people who harbor suspicions against Microsoft, then you're not likely to be convinced that the recent release has changed anything. For a lot of the rest of us, including shell integration programmers, cryptographers and the terminally curious, the new information is fascinating and potentially useful, although not always as complete as we'd like." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] Heh-)   4:28:06 PM

Ok, all those .NET Stories seem to be "lost." Well, not lost in the sense that they are up on the server at Radioland as I see when people find them with Google. But they are lost in that they are not listed locally here on my local machine and I have no control over them. This must have happened when I switched over to my laptop as my main development machine. I'm going to try to re-create some of them as some actually seem quite popular (at least they get a lot of hits!) -)) Here's they are: Intoduction to .NET Languages, VS.NET and Extending VS.NET Mixing VSIP Unmanaged Code with Managed Code Is COM interop Fundamentally Flawed? Parts 1 and 2 and the all-time favorite: It's The Runtime Stupid 11:31:25 AM

If you create a client proxy installation for a COM+ application, you can specify the remote server name (RSN) on the command line to msiexec: Msiexec /I  myapp.msi RemoteServerName=XYZ This came from Q246057 BUG: RSN Cannot Be Changed in COM+ for an Application Proxy although the bug has nothing really to do with it.[Adrian Bateman - VisionTech] A big welcome to Adrian who seems to be a Microsoft/.NET type of guy. Thanks for the handy COM+ tip.   11:23:10 AM

The second article in the series; this article describes how to develop assemblies and how to use .NET components from an ASP.NET page. The sample code provides a basic Data Access Layer class. 11:18:08 AM

GDI+ is the way to display 2D graphics in the .NET framework. Learn the essentials with a fun walkthrough, where you will get to create a simple tetris-like game. 11:16:05 AM

New Name: Windows .NET Server 2003 [ActiveWin] Name #4 and counting... 11:14:25 AM

Today's the Day to Spend with .NET! [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] Chris also says: Download mIRC [1], connect to a "Random US/EN Undernet Server" and join the "#c#" channel (it may not be listed). 11:13:22 AM

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