I'm not adding anything to the "BCL vs primitives" naming discussion - everything has already been discussed. I just wanted to give a real-world example of how this effected a project I'm working on: We were porting business logic code from VB6 to...

Is it just me, or are XML namespaces really really that ugly to work with in .NET? After formalizing my XML format and defining a schema, my cuddly-puppy code: xmlData.LoadXml(XmlString) xmlCommandCollection = xmlData.SelectNodes("//CommandCollection...

We are developing on the tablet PC so there are a few floating around the office. I got to test drive one for a while, and I must say that that for a geek toy they have a very high "wife acceptance factor" . Apart from that, I don't see it replacing my...

... 'Write' functionality on config files is just as logical as reading from them. If you want us to steer away from ini files, or registery values - give us something that replaces this functionality at the simplest level. When i first saw the appSettings...

Heh, I was just wondering if this would ever happen in my lifetime <G> http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html <Yes I know it's fake, but still too much fun to ignore :) rebuffed at http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue...

Dammit, it is annoying working with MS guys who keep dropping remarks such as " yeah, I played around with the C# features in whidbey and they are pretty cool... " and then follow that up with " ... I wouldn't have bothered, but I needed it for developing...

Hi, I will be attending the SharePoint Products and Technologies Developers’ Conference between April 14 – 17, 2003 in Redmond. My main areas of interest: Sharepoint V2 and InfoPath. Does anyone want to try to meet up over there?

Maybe someone out there can help me out: I need to parse a really complex data format which tends to change every now and then. Manually coding something to read the data and take it apart would probably result in an app which needs reworking for every...

Just saw the Final Flight of the Osiris (along with "Dreamcatchers"). The characters- wow . The story - WOW . The CGI animation - WOWOWOWOW . The coolness factor - undescribable:) In short, the 10$ ticket was worth every cent just for the 4 minutes...

This picture appeared on the CNN homepage as part of a headline describing the fighting in Nasiriya: I can't help but wonder about the amazing similarity between that picture and a CounterStrike screenshot. Would anyone care to bet on the chances...

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For anyone who really misses XML comment support in VB.NET - check out VBXC - which adds an almost complete implementation to the VB.NET IDE. While it isn't quite stable (it tends to popup error windows now and again almost at random) it is great at what...

Peer pressure will get ya every time - I don't wanna be the only guy on the server who didn't mention that Ingo Rammer's newsletter is out. And it is short and sweet, just as I like 'em :)

C# Syntax for having an interface implement another interface: public interface I2 : I1 Now the same in VB.NET: Public Interface I2 Inherits I1 "inheriting" an interface... Ugh. Why oh why does my client prefer VB.NET??? (Answer: it isn't...

Looking over the new features planned for C# and then for VB.NET it seems (at least at first glance) that C# programmers are getting lots of new goodies which the VB guys aren't. So far MSFT has gone to great lengths to keep both languages equivalent...