I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes, so why not just map it to Int64 or UInt64 and for...
If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight doesn't allow that ;) To get the .wmv's,...
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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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Beth and I have been having a argument all in fist fight discussion about dynamic code in VB. My point to Beth in the discussion was that all the code she showed could in fact be made work reasonably easily with Strict On, such is the power of the CallByName function. In VB 10 we hopefully will also...
I was just reading Roger Jennings blog and note he logged a bug in Orcas . What scared me was the response Roger got. It seems his bug was acknowledged pretty quickly, and some 5 hours later they said : Thanks for your feedback. We have reproduced this bug on Visual Studio Codename Orcas June CTP, and...
Recently a fellow MVP pointed out the addition of the TransferRequest method to the HttpServerUtility class. The documentation falsely states it as being .NET 3.0 when in fact the change is made in .NET 3.5 Beta. You'd think stating the file versions would be enough to clear up the matter, which...
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I was just reading Ralf's post about some future directions for XML and one thing that struck me is there is still a mismatch between "Data" and "OO". XML is really just descriptive data, at least it is at present. Of course it doesn't have to be, it could just as easily include event wire up, just as...
I was just reading Avner's blog entry about the latest LINQ bits and VB 9.0 , in particular the bit about the Value Extension Property. How cool is that !!!! :) So it occurred to me that perhaps extension properties are better than "normal" properties. Because an extension property is basically a shared...
Yag 's blogging about the PDC and he's let the cat out of the bag ... well almost... That's right, this Friday stay tuned to your PC's for some amazing videos about the future of programming. Paul Vick and Amanda Silver will rock your world with the amazing stuff they, Yag , Erik Meijer and countless...