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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated: A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 12 January 08 03:43 by BradA | 24 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL, .NET Framework, WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF
When there is no good name...: I noticed a good debate going on the BCL blog (and now Krzysztof Cwalina’s blog ) about the naming of TimeZone2… Clearly the name brings back bad memories of the Win32\COM world …. As Krys points out there is not an easy answer here. Ideally we could Read More...
Posted 10 October 06 08:01 by BradA | 5 Comments
Filed under Framework Design Guidelines, BCL
Source code for CLR\BCL 2.0: Great news... Rotor V2.0 ships ... I have found Rotor a great way to look at (mostly) the real source code from the CLR and BCL to see what is really going on under the covers. Read More...
Posted 23 March 06 08:40 by BradA | 5 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
You gotta love the little things in .NET Framework 2.0: File.ReadAllLines(): I was recently reviewing some samples and I ran across one that made me really appreciate the work we did in BCL in .NET Framework 2.0... it maybe a very trivial thing, but it really improves the code. The code sample in question looked something like: Read More...
Posted 27 December 05 03:44 by BradA | 16 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
PowerCollections for V2.0 RTM: Peter just posted a version of the Power Collections for V2.0 . I’d love to hear your feedback on these and the general model. Our goal with helping out Peter and Wintellect with power collections was to provide a first class extension of the existing Read More...
Posted 13 November 05 09:51 by BradA | 17 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL, .NET Framework
Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters: When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name can be much longer. However, as one of our internal customers noticed, Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters. This is because Environment.ComputerName Read More...
Posted 10 August 05 09:28 by BradA | 6 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
Cool Console Game: You thought Space Invaders! was a cool sample, check out this one: It is a VB 2005 Console based game that rocks. http://www.heroicadventure.com/ It reminds me of sitting in my Dad’s lab at NCSU playing Castle on one of the consoles connected to a mainframe.. Read More...
Posted 16 June 05 10:11 by BradA | 8 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
Showing Progress in a Console Windows: Recently I needed to show some progress indicator on some long running console application. I recall the good old days of my college days with console based SMTP clients such as elm and pine … as I recall these clients showed progress via a simple ASCII Read More...
Posted 11 June 05 04:41 by BradA | 27 Comments
Filed under CLR, Framework Design Guidelines, BCL
Love to code? Love to take on big projects? this is the job for you!: I am looking for a technical Program Manager to own some core parts of the platform including Reflection, Reflection.Emit, Delegates, etc. If you love to code, love working with developers, know how to really ship software you will love this job! Drop Read More...
Posted 14 April 05 05:32 by BradA | 10 Comments
Filed under Random, BCL
Fun with Equality Follow up...: Some great answers to my recent quiz … I particularly love the Nullable<T> and string interning usage.. very nice! The question again was: Find examples for each of the following: Question 1: x == y && !x.Equals(y) Question 2: x != y && Read More...
Posted 07 April 05 05:00 by BradA | 3 Comments
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Fun with Equality: Isn’t it funny how the “easiest” concepts can be the most complicated? A reader sent me the following quiz to help us appreciate the subtlies of equality in the system. Luckily he gave me the answers as well… ;-) Consider the following program: object Read More...
Posted 03 April 05 10:51 by BradA | 11 Comments
Filed under CLR, BCL
Manuscript drop SLAR Vol2: We are done! Today the author team for the SLAR Vol2 dropped the manuscript to Addison-Wesley. I gotta say it took a lot longer than I expected to complete the original SLAR , but I am happy with where we ended up. This completes the CLI standard library Read More...
Posted 30 March 05 10:14 by BradA | 12 Comments
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Now, that is what I call a blog day!: Wow – I gotta say the BCL team knows how to have a blog day … In one day the team managed to post 23 meaty blogs on a whole range of topics… and I know that many entries got ½ done that will post out over the next week or so. No doubt great search engine Read More...
Posted 15 March 05 11:39 by BradA | 8 Comments
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Pref: Convert.ToString() or Int32.ToString(): A reader recently asked me if there is any perf difference between Convert.ToString() or Int32.ToString(). If you search for Convert.cs you will find the Rotor source for Convert.cs which helps answer the question… 02066 public static string ToString( Read More...
Posted 10 March 05 10:34 by BradA | 9 Comments
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MSDN-TV on PowerCollections posted: Peter and Krys are interviewed on MSDN TV recently about the PowerCollections project… Check it out Peter does a great job talking about the history and motivation of the project... I do hope that you find value in the way power collections extends System.Collections.Generics. Read More...
Posted 26 February 05 02:46 by BradA | 2 Comments
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