Sunday, October 06, 2002

DotNet Stuff (1) Compuware has a .Net Profiler for free. It helps pinpointing performance bottlenecks in .NET applications. What have you to loose ? FMS Inc's new Total Net Analyzer is here and this is a terrific tool to complement code-review sessions with your peers. It's more thorough than the VS.Net compiler (both C# & VB) and costs ~$500. Tell your boss it'll pay for itself within a few days. Josh Lane takes the lid out of frameworks in 'One-Size Frameworks Rarely Fit All' in the .Net magazine. He puts it as "a nebulous marketing term" that falls short. Worth reading, since the Groove GDK is maturing from COM-Scripting to .Net namespace libraries to frameworks and "patterns". A neat "trick" that you can do in C#:  string someString = @"this is a string and the carriage return will also be included in the string".  Check out the details regarding @ in the C# Language Spec document. This saves you from doing the limiters/delimiters for carriage-control characters especially for lengthy message boxes.   10:38:55 AM