I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005" stream of things. There was a Q&A session at...
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Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
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I've been rummaging through the Windows Vista User Interface Experience Guidelines draft, a 33 MB pdf file , and it poses some interesting questions around warning and exception dialog messages. Now apparently it is not OK to present the user with an exception message and an OK button. Instead the...
C# has some interesting rules for operators on nullable types. Given: int? x ; int? y ; Laws of transitivity tells us that if x is equal to y, (x == y), then x<= y would be true too. Well not in C#. With this function: static void test(int? arg1, int? arg2) { Console.WriteLine("arg1 == arg2 returns...