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In the previous installment I managed to set up basic communications with the sensor network and try out some Link45 commands using my Super-Simple Serial Console . In order to actually do anything with the sensor data, I would need a function that could
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It started out as a simple project. My children had become interested in basic electrical circuits so I bought them some LEDs , batteries, wire, and solderless breadboard to play around with. I soon found that these components weren't ideal for a number
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Microsoft has just announced that the next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be October 2-5, 2007 in Los Angeles, with two days of pre-conference on September 30 and October 1. The last two PDCs were fantastic and this one is likely to be
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As I was putting together a post on IEnumerable and IEnumerator I was reminded of the subtleties of implicit and explicit interface implementations. C# does not support multiple inheritance, but a class has the option of implementing one or more interfaces.
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MSDN recently added Wiki functionality to the portion of the site dealing with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. This already looks like it is going to be a great resource - at the time of this post, there were almost 1000 topics with Community
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In the previous installment I described my decision to build a temperature and humidity sensor network using modules from IButtonLink.com . The heart of the system is the Link45 which connects the PC’s serial port to the sensor network and provides an
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Members of the C# team will be hosting an online chat session about LINQ to SQL on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Here's the description: The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query,
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Home Automation Home Automation Part 1 - Burning $200 of propane Home Automation Part 2 - Making Basic Measurements Home Automation Part 3 - Using Regular Expressions to Parse Sensor Data
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IDE Features New For VS2005 - Abstract Stub Generation Language Features (coming soon)
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Visual Studio 2005 includes a new feature to generate stubs for methods in an abstract base class . Here's an example of how it works. Suppose you want to create a class called MyDerivedClass that inherits from an abstract class called MyAbstractClass:
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Karen Liu , a C# IDE program manager recently sent me the specs for all of the new C# IDE features in Visual Studio 2005 . As part of my rampup as the new C# PUM, I plan to make my way through this list and blog about some of the more interesting changes.
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I like to use my knowledge of technology to solve problems outside of work. In this series I explain how I used C# and the Internet to remotely monitor a propane stove in my cabin. While reading about my adventures you will learn about C#, embedded technology,
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Hi. I’m Michael Hopcroft, the new Product Unit Manager for Visual C#. I started the job a few weeks ago and this is my first blog post. Working with the C# team is a dream job for me. I’ve liked C# since the day it came out and used it extensively in
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