Section: Blogs
Eric Gunnerson discusses Enums, Validation and Versioning…
May 11, 2004 1 min.
Giving us an early peek at his TechEd 2004 talk, Eric discusses how to handle enums in your code, since they are not constrained to the list of options you define in the enum and also because they can change in ways that could break your code in the future… Enums and validation _ ... So, my first point is that enums are not sets – they can take on any value from the underlying type.
May 8, 2004 3 min.
Back in highschool, I cut lawns for a lot of people…. so many that it was really a summer job and kept me quite busy, and then in University I took a job laying sod for a landscape company…. kinda went from the amateur level to the professional there. Both jobs were hot, dirty and left me ready for nothing but sleep at the end of a day… but I’ve often remarked to my wife that sometimes I long for that type of job.
VB sessions at TechEd 2004…
May 8, 2004 1 min.
Paul Vick (Technical Lead on the VB team and author of this book) provides a list of key VB sessions scheduled for the upcoming TechEd conference… and his schedule for the week. TechEd 2004 sessions (from Panopticon Central) I’ll be there too… and I’ll post my schedule whenever I figure it out, but in general if you come by the VB Cabana (don’t ask me where that is, I’ll figure out on registration day) I’ll probably be hanging out.
Grant discusses Iterators…
May 8, 2004 1 min.
I’ve often had email exchanges and thought about posting them as blog entries… and now I’ve seen someone do it… and I have to say that it is a little hard to read (for the email part, start at the bottom and read up… which is normal for email, but not intuitive in a blog posting)… That difficulty is worth going through though because if you read the entire post you’ll find out lots of useful info… 🙂
New ‘Diary of a .NET Newbie’ column up at vbCity.com
May 7, 2004 2 min.
Part of vbCity’s newsletter, the ‘diary’ column always has some great content focused on how-to information for people who are ramping up on VB.NET… the latest post talks about the concept of an Owned Form, and it is pretty useful stuff… [Diary of a .NET Newbie: Owning Up](http://www.devcity.net/newsletter/archive/devcity/devcity20040505.htm#ni020) _...Just recently, I wanted to create a small form that would pop up in response to a button click to give the user somewhere to type in temporary notes.
May 7, 2004 1 min.
Watch Mike Schinkel interview Joe Binder (PM of VB’s My feature) about VB 2005’s “My” Classes. Not into video, check out my article on the same topic.
Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps… now available…
May 7, 2004 1 min.
I heard this was coming in a few weeks, but it is here now…. This is a free download, but note that you have to have your original CD-Key for this to work…. and that the version that supports custom maps is multi-player only and doesn’t ship with any of the original maps… the dedicated server program is included though!! [Update: Note sure about that ‘doesn’t ship with maps’ comment I made… I read that in an article on the web, but the maps appeared to be there when I played… perhaps the new maps added in Halo PC are missing… but I can’t be sure]
PInvokes available as a VS.NET Add-In…
May 7, 2004 1 min.
Amazing stuff… Adam Nathan creates pinvoke.net, to general acclaim, and then follows only a few days later with a great VS.NET Add-In that allows you to search for, insert and even contribute PInvoke signatures to his site. “Introducing” PINVOKE.NET and its Visual Studio Add-In!{#viewpost.ascx_TitleUrl.broken_link} it brings a tear to my eye it does…
Some FAQs are more FA than others….
May 6, 2004 1 min.
Joe Mayo posted a great ‘frequently asked question’ along with a very clear answer, to the C# FAQ recently…. Why did I receive the error: “The type or namespace ‘’ does not exist in the class or namespace ‘’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)” If you haven’t found the FAQ yet, check it out…. submit your questions (please try to stick to common C# issues, not general support questions, as we are trying to only answer questions that would make good additions to the FAQ list) and comment on existing ones!
Eric is asking questions again…
May 4, 2004 1 min.
This time, he wants to know what you think about C#’s community: **C# Community Review** _... If a friend came up to you and said, “I'm thinking of using C#, but I'm concerned that there isn't a good community around it”, what would you say? What are the good things about the C# community? What are the bad things? If you wanted us to change one thing, what would it be?