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C# 2.0



C# 2005 Unleashed is "in the can"!

Tue 31 Jan 06 10:10 A GMT-05
After 14 months of starting and stopping this book, all the drafts have been submitted!

SOA Manifesto

Thu 26 Jan 06 5:38 P GMT-05
My personal feelings on the subject of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

GLoWORM - Generic LightWeight Object-Relational Mapper

Wed 09 Nov 05 9:02 P GMT-05
I've decided to write my own attribute-based ORM for super-fast and easy database access, and this version is on steroids (ok, so its on Generics...)

Tic-Tac-Indigo Part III

Sun 04 Sep 05 9:30 P GMT-05
In this third installment of creating a Peer-to-Peer application with Indigo, I'll show you how I got around a common P2P data sharing issue

Tic-Tac-Indigo Part II

Fri 02 Sep 05 11:34 A GMT-05
Last time I showed you a very basic piece of a developing Tic-Tac-Toe game. This time, I'll show you some of the code that made it possible

Tic-Tac-indiGO - Part I

Wed 17 Aug 05 6:21 P GMT-05
I recently took a look at the Peer-to-Peer Chat sample available in Indigo's Beta 1, and decided to turn it from a fairly limited sample into something useful - a game.

Windows Vista - Day 1

Fri 05 Aug 05 6:27 P GMT-05
This is a brief summary of my first day using Windows Vista, including step-by-step instructions on getting Vista to work in a dual-boot scenario

Creating a Serialization Library for SharePoint Lists using Generics

Tue 07 Jun 05 9:04 P GMT-05
I was recently writing some code that retrieves list items from the SharePoint Lists.asmx Web Service. As you may already know, this web service allows developers to query the items contained in a list with regards to views, customize which fields ar

VS.NET Team Foundation Server - Wish List

Fri 20 May 05 12:47 P GMT-05
After having played with this application for a while, and watched it consume a massive pile of memory on my machine, I realized that it is actually lacking quite a few things. There's a single show-stopper that will more than likely prevent myself a

VS.NET 2005 Team Suite

Thu 05 May 05 4:28 P GMT-05
Well, I've finally managed to get a copy of Team Suite running. I have a Virtual PC that is running Windows Server 2003, as well as SQL 2005, Team Foundation Server, and Team Build Server. All of this combined creates a Virtual PC image that requires

VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 "Stable"

Mon 25 Apr 05 9:06 A GMT-05
I think the notion of "stable" here is somewhat in question. I have installed many different versions of VS.NET 2005, including pre-beta, Beta 1, and Beta 2 CTP editions. Most of them have installed fairly easily without few hitches. Most o

Retro is so now

Fri 22 Apr 05 9:12 A GMT-05
I don't know the average age of the average .NET programmer, but I know my own experience. I remember back in the good old days of DOS programming (yes, I am that old... hey, at least I don't remember when COBOL was hip and trendy....). I remember th

Visual C#.NET 2005 Unleashed ... Unleashed

Wed 20 Apr 05 9:12 A GMT-05
Well, I started working on Visual C#.NET 2005 Unleashed the other night. With moving across the country, unpacking in the new house, stressing about selling the old house ... I've actually been away from the keyboard for quite some time... it feels r

System.Transactions - No Love for the Transactional File System

Mon 14 Feb 05 3:44 P GMT-05
I recently saw an MSDN TV webcast that illustrated some of the fantastic new features that we can look forward to in .NET 2.0. It showed a really cool feature, known as promotble single-phase enlistments. What this system really does is only use the

.NET 2.0 BackgroundWorker Component Demo

Thu 10 Feb 05 11:35 A GMT-05
The other day I found myself spending a lot of time writing code to do asynchronous operations in a Windows Forms application. I remembered hearing at the PDC ('03) that there was a new feature in WinForms 2.0 that allowed you to easily control backg