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August 2004 - Posts

iMac G5

The iMac G5 looks very cool to me. I'm seriously thinking of buying one of these things when they're shippable (and possibly after some real hands-on reviews) just so that I can see "how the other half lives". I've never owned a Mac and I've never done Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:10 PM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0

I wrote a bit of an article about ASP.NET 2.0 and thought I'd share it here. It's a little more formal than what I normally post up here but I thought it was worth sharing. As an aside, I spent a lot of last week watching Jeff Prosise talk about ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:52 PM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

.NET Framework Code Coverage Edition Beta 1

This was a new one to me. MSDN has a download for the .NET Framework Code Coverage Edition beta. From the accompanying document; To help achieve this, the .NET Framework Code Coverage Edition is a new mechanism that enables you to give Microsoft direct Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:49 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Dual-core chips with dual caches

Quick pointer to a Cnet news story about AMD and Intel processor strategies for their dual-core offerings next year. The is here . Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:31 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Download films on demand?

An interesting story over here on the plans that NetFlix has to sell films on the web for download potentially using "peer-to-peer" forwarding technology not unlike what BitTorrent does. Sounds pretty cool to me - I guess it's going to be a fiercely fought Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:28 PM by mtaulty | 18 Comments

Summertime...

Activity here might go a little quiet for a while as I'm away for the next few weeks - back soon :-) Read More...
Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 11:12 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Early Adopter posting on VB Syntax

This posting on the Early Adopter site made me smile. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 1:55 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0 Feature changes post beta 1

The ASP.NET team posted up to the ASP.NET forums yesterday around changes that will happen in between the Beta 1 code that's out there today and a second beta. The posting is here - very important that you go and take a look if you're interested in ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:19 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

Stan Lippman on VC++ 2005 and the STL.NET

There's the first of a new series of articles about the STL.NET that's part of Visual C++ 2005 written by Stan Lippman and published here It's interesting stuff - personally I need to think a little bit more about Stan's comment on the generic collections Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:40 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

InfoPath Resources on the Office Developer Centre

A whole bunch of InfoPath 2003 Sp1 resources have gone up to the Office Developer Centre Possibly the most interesting would be the 16 hands-on labs that are here and walk you through items such as; Controls Business Logic (incl managed code) ADO.NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:31 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Tim Ewald on RelaxNG and Messaging

Tim Ewald's got a couple of great posts going on in his blog around the complexity of XSD and the attraction of RelaxNG as an alternative and also how he focuses on messages when thinking of web service design. Posts are here and here - you need to read Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:27 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Fritz Onion on Asynchronous ASPX pages in VS 2005

Fritz Onion's followed up a previous post about the asynchronous page model in ASP.NET 2.0 - the post is here . There's still some debate going on around this stuff on Fritz's blog here but it looks like it's ultimately coming back to this help page which Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:24 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Visual C++ 2005 on DevSource

DevSource has a good article over here around what's new in Visual C++ in VS 2005. The article's short and snappy and runs through the features that are coming - some of them are already here with Beta 1 of 2005. There's also a couple of pointers across Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:14 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Gareth on TracePoints

Gareth's got a short note on TracePoints in VS2005 - I agree that these are really cool. The link is here Don't forget of course that, in the theme of some of my recent posts, you can do this in WinDbg too :-) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:05 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

MSDN TV Show on WSE 2.0 Adapter for BizTalk 2004

Scott Woodgate has put together an episode of MSDN TV (i.e. the recordings that last just 10 minutes) around using the WSE 2.0 Adapter for BizTalk that lets you get WSE2.0 messaging support inside of BizTalk 2004. The link to the show is here - it's well Read More...
Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 1:56 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

CocoaSharp story on Slashdot

Only the other day I was wondering whether someone would put together the outputs of the Mono project along with the Mac OS X user interface and then along comes a story that references that very thing. I found this story to be really interesting – Read More...
Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 9:41 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility - GotDotNet Workspace

I’ve created a GotDotNet workspace around my WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility. I had a few requests around getting access to the source for this and I thought that the best way to get this to the people that wanted it would be to put it in a single, centralised Read More...
Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 2:47 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

C++ templates and .NET generics

I found some interesting posts around the comparison between C++ templates and .NET generics in V2.0 of the CLR and frameworks. Brent Rector’s written a good article here on the subject and Brandon Bray has a great discussion here. K. Scott Allen Read More...
Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 8:26 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

MSDN Articles on Software Factories

I just wanted to flag up a couple of articles that are being published within the Architecture section on MSDN on the topic of software factories. These two (of a series of four) went down very well with me; The Case for Software Factories Problems and Read More...
Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 4:58 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

More on debugging with SOS.DLL - enter Visual Studio

I can’t get off this debugging topic at the moment. To follow up briefly on the postings that I put up about WinDbg and the SOS.DLL I wanted to add some information about Visual Studio because I think I goofed really with the last couple of postings Read More...
Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 4:50 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

Wesner Moise on .NET

To follow up on my last post, Wesner Moise is writing some interesting things about .NET over on his blog here . Subscribed. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:40 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

.NET Framework 2.0 Change List

One of the things that I’ve been struggling with for .NET Frameworks V2.0 is a useful list of all the classes that have been added, removed, modified in the version broken down by functional area (or at least namespace). One of the better breakdowns Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:58 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

The eternal quest for a quiet PC

I have a dekstop PC which sits about 1.5 feet away from me for a lot of the time and one of my side-projects has been to make this PC quiet (ideally, silent) . I’d also like to make it so that it didn’t belch hot air out into the room but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:00 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

Googling from Internet Explorer

This is a re-post but I find this so useful that I'm sure it's worth reposting. I'm always wanting to pick up an arbitrary piece of text in Internet Explorer and launch a Google search for it without having to type it in to a new Window. What I use to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:01 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

A word for WinDbg (2)

Continuing on from the previous post on using WinDbg let’s take what we learnt in that previous post and apply it to managed code. WinDbg supports the debugging of managed code through an extension named SOS.DLL . This is named for esoteric reasons Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:27 AM by mtaulty | 6 Comments

A word for WinDbg

Before I came to work at Microsoft I worked as a professional developer on the Microsoft platform and I used to work with the Visual Studio (6 latterly) debugger which I thought was a pretty cool debugger. When I joined Microsoft I found that a lot of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:54 AM by mtaulty | 14 Comments

Apple Word Wide Developer Conference Video

This is a little bit old but over the weekend I caught up with the Keynote talk by Steve Jobs for this years' Apple World Wide Developer Conference - the video can currently be found here and you'll be needing QuickTime to view it. Interesting to see Read More...
Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 4:51 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

NEC's super-slim Tablet PC

Just a quick link to some pictures of NEC's forthcoming tablet PC - click here to follow . I saw this in the US recently (from twenty feet or so away rather than a real hands-on thing) and it looked very, very cool. It seems like we're at the point where Read More...
Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 1:54 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments