Friday, May 27, 2005 - Posts

Open Generics in .NET 2.0

Interesting post over here http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2005/05/open_generic_ty.html - not something I'd seen. Read More

Tom's Hardware on P4 versus Pentium M

Tom's hardware has a great article comparing Pentium M performance against Pentium 4 performance.   It's a long article. The conclusion is here;   http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/pentium4-21.html   The article's called "Kill the Pentium 4" - Read More

Good article on web service access to SQL 2005

I was reading this article up here http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/soapscenarios.asp about using SOAP to access SQL Server 2005 natively. It prompted me to write a little bit of code to build a "Query Analyzer" Read More

MSDN Article on WS-Security Interop

There's a nice article up here http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/WSSInteropJWSDP15.asp on how to get WSE2.0 WS-Security and Sun's Java WSDP 1.5 to interop using WS-Security to secure SOAP messages with Read More

"Longhorn" and .NET

I find this story on the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/dotnet_longhorn/ a bit puzzling.   The quote that's puzzling me is this;   "Mary Jo Foley reports that only some parts of Longhorn will be based on .NET 2.0, rather than the entire Read More