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.NET and COM: Available once again in non-electronic form
As I mentioned in my earlier post , my .NET and COM book is now being printed on-demand and can be purchased only at the following location (and perhaps only for a limited time?): http://www.samspublishing.com/title/067232170X Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 15 May 06 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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This just in: .NET and COM is coming back in print!
A few months ago I mentioned that my .NET and COM book went out of print . Well, after getting regular streams of e-mail from people who still wanted to get a copy (which I forwarded on to the publisher), I can now happily say that they are planning to Read More...
Posted 20 April 06 10:58 by Adam Nathan | 14 Comments   
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The passing of one book and the birth of another
It's official... I got a letter informing me that .NET and COM , almost four years after its release, is out of print. Of course, it still lives on in PDF form . Like Luke , I've sometimes been baffled by the apparent lack of supply. I've been told many Read More...
Posted 12 December 05 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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Light up on Windows Vista: The "Top 10" List
PDC attendees got a "top 10" poster, but the details are now live on MSDN: " 10 things you can do to make your application shine when it runs on Windows Vista ." They are, in no particular order: 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich Read More...
Posted 12 September 05 10:42 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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Announcing www.winfxhearts.com!
To correspond with my PDC talk about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista, I've created www.winfxhearts.com . This site has a ClickOnce link that enables you can play a version of my new & improved Internet Hearts game. Here's a "before Read More...
Posted 08 September 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 16 Comments   
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Migrating from VC6 to VC8: Resources
In order to update Internet Hearts with WinFX features , I'm going to leverage C++ Interop and recompile at least some of the source code with /clr so I can start using managed APIs. Therefore, my first step was to get the source code (which hadn't been Read More...
Posted 15 July 05 10:17 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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Internet Hearts: 112,000 Lines of Code
On Monday I asked for guesses on the size of the Internet Hearts source base , and the highest (public) one was 45,000 lines of code. The answer: approximately 112,000 lines of code! 51,000 are client-specific, 35,000 are server-specific, and 26,000 are Read More...
Posted 15 June 05 01:39 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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2005 Products: Why Upgrade?
Yesterday at TechEd, someone asked me if we had one-page documents that explained: What's new in SQL Server 2005? What's new in Visual Studio 2005? What's new in the .NET Framework 2.0? In other words, what are the features that will make her team beg Read More...
Posted 09 June 05 02:25 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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pinvoke.net is one year old!
In a recent meeting, I got the opportunity to meet Ward Cunningham , David Ornstein , and Korby Parnell . Naturally, afterwards I had wikis on the brain. They (not intentionally) made me feel guilty about pinvoke.net being on such an old version of FlexWiki. Read More...
Posted 09 May 05 02:18 by Adam Nathan | 0 Comments   
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Migrating Internet Hearts to WinFX
Last year, Chris Sells wrote a series of articles in which he set out to rewrite Solitaire using Avalon. The lack of scaling graphics in the Win32 version (and lack of access to its source code, I suppose) forced him down the road of rewriting the app Read More...
Posted 02 May 05 11:59 by Adam Nathan | 13 Comments   
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.NET Framework 2.0 and app compat
Jason Zander , head of the CLR, does a great job explaining application compatibility issues that the team is focused on. I'm curious to hear about managed apps and components that have been released, whether they're " 100% managed code " or even 1% managed Read More...
Posted 28 April 05 10:23 by Adam Nathan | 1 Comments   
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Help us help you!
[Update: This program is no longer available.] Do you write managed apps or components? Then you should run them on a special edition of the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1 . With this, you can now give Microsoft direct feedback on what portions of the .NET Read More...
Posted 08 September 04 03:48 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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'Introducing' PINVOKE.NET and its Visual Studio Add-In!
I guess I'm not cut out to be a journalist. Two weeks ago when I decided to spend my weekend creating the PINVOKE.NET wiki, I had a great opportunity to awaken my blog from its deep slumber by announcing it to the world. But Ben , Brad , Brian , Charlie Read More...
Posted 06 May 04 01:26 by Adam Nathan | 79 Comments   
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CLR SPY: Feature requests for the next version
Now that I'm set up at my new blogging home, I'd like to get some feedback from anyone who has used the CLR SPY tool that I've uploaded to gotdotnet.com and blogged a lot about in the past. We're investigating shipping the tool in the .NET Framework SDK, Read More...
Posted 13 January 04 11:32 by Adam Nathan | 16 Comments   
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An Overview of Managed/Unmanaged Code Interoperability
I promised I'd post this link on my blog. PDC attendees can also find it on their Longhorn DVD (Disk #2). It's a document called "The Developer's Guide to Migration and Interoperability in Longhorn: Alpha Patterns and Practices". Read More...
Posted 03 November 03 05:00 by Adam Nathan | 7 Comments   
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