musings from a snowstorm....

Here’s some good info…  “ .NET Remoting Architectural Assessment ” on MSDN.

Hot off the presses at MSDN : Learn how to move Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2002 software development from Microsoft eMbedded Visual Basic to the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Basic .NET. The release of the .NET Compact Framework enables mobile...

I'm attending a VB6 migration lab with a client this week in Redmond.  There's a VB6 add-in (“Code Advisor“) that tells you where you'll run into issues during the upgrade. It's best to take care of as many things as you can on the VB6 side before...

Deborah Kurata is presenting on “Best Kept Secrets in .NET”.  See you there !

I went looking around for blogging software written in a .NET language and saw DasBlog 1.0.  It's available in a GDN workspace .  Pretty cool.  Written in C#.  Just saw that they've posted a 1.1 release.  I'll have to take a look.  (I had made of list...

A couple of people asked me if it was difficult.  Well, yes and no. First, the 'No':  I've been working with .NET full-time for a year and a half.  I worked on several .NET projects while I was in Microsoft Consulting Services.  Fortunately the projects...

ASP.NET provides three forms of caching in Web Applications. Examine best practices and techniques for using these three methods to improve your performance.  Click here to read. Learn best practices for Web application design and programming in this...

I just passed 70-300, the last exam for my MCSD for .NET.  Wa Hoo!

I saw this at the bottom of one of David Weller 's e-mails, in his signature “bumper sticker”: “Dream as if you'll live forever.  Live as though you'll die today.”   - James Dean

CNET has an interview with Martin Taylor , Platform Strategies Manager at Microsoft.

Phil Scott  mentioned that I just announced to everyone that I have some say in who gets to beta test Whidbey... No, not really.   But I can ask.  ;-)  And I'm sure (at least I hope!) there will be a public beta period, similar to the one for “Everett...

As I was sitting at a long red light this morning, trying to get out of the neighborhood, facing a 30 minute drive into work, I decided to sync my e-mail.  There was a request from one of the account managers asking if a particular customer could get...

If you live in the Portland or Seattle area, you'll want to register for the upcoming free MSDN event.  Two topics, from 1 - 5 pm: Smart client deployment with WinForms Microsoft Office 2003 and VS .NET 2003.  Click here for more info about...

Recently posted on MSDN : “In this recent chat, members of the Visual Basic team discuss performance issues such as late binding, compile-on-demand, thread pooling, and measuring your app's performance.” It doesn't matter if you're writing Web apps...

You know.  Sometimes just stepping away for a few minutes can make all the difference it the world.  I closed my laptop, walked upstairs and took a shower.  All the while, in the back of my sludge pit of a brain, I was dredging around, trying to figure...

One “nice” thing about not being able to sleep because I feel the need to show the world how much sludge I have in my brain: I just walked outside and was blinded by how bright Mars is. Received in e-mail: Never again in your lifetime will the...

If I define eData as a variant in the VB6 program, the program compiles.   I ran the program and set a breakpoint after the assignment statement (eData = emp.ReturnEmpData()).  In the immediate window I typed “? eData” and it printed Employee.EmpData...

Frans Bouma states that “user defined types in VB are not something related to COM, but are a VB thing. The error clearly states that the user defined type is stored inside a variant, it is not used as a com object.” OK.  So I can't use a VB6 Type...

If I define the type in C# as a public class instead of as a struct, I still get a compile error on the same line as before in VB6.  This time the error message is: “Only user-defined types defined in public object modules can be coerced to or from a...

I've beaten my head against the wall time and again over the weekend, and still haven't been able to figure it out. Returnin a string or an int isn't a problem, but when I try to return a struct that consists of a couple of string fields, you'd think...

After months of debating with myself, I finally bought a Pocket PC Phone on Friday.  It's cool.  My phone company got my GPRS internet service going this morning. The phone has better coverage than my old cell phone did. And it's really nice to be able...

While on the topic of security, please make sure your Windows systems are up to date !  Especially regarding security bulletin MS03-026 .  Seriously.

Ted Neward's post about SQL injection attacks is very eye-opening...