30 January 2003

Who really cares if .NET is better than Java (or vice versa) I must admit I have stayed off this subject as it goes back and forth between camps. Who really cares, its a toolbox and you pick the right tool for the job. 6:05:46 PM    comment []

Using NAnt to build .NET projects Nice article on the automated build tool for .NET. 6:01:44 PM    comment []

Sam is moving From radio to the Blogs at dotnetblogs, I must admit that I am ok with radio but miss the remote blogging that Blogger always let me do. 5:53:54 PM    comment []

Mono News See the latest news letter here plus some news on a new effort to start porting #develop to Mono. Some Janet news :- I don't have CVS access to Mono and creating a patch with out it was proving to be a royal nightmare so instead I just sent my C# over to the list and hope someone commits it. 5:51:46 PM    comment []

Light Blogging Not updated for a while, I have huge project to complete. As part of this project I am creating a COM object in VB 6.0 (see the memory leak post). I have spent that much time in .NET that i decided to bring across some of the things I love about .NET, Unit Testing and documentation from code to name just a few. To help trace logic and code flow I have created another COM object which shadows my orginal COM object and traces each call. The end result is a XML file that with help of a simple XSLT transformation I can then see in HTML. As I run unit tests I can then see for a given result what my COM object has done and how data has been exchanged and changed. Already thought of a way of doing this in .NET using reflection ;-)  5:49:57 PM    comment []