Jack of all trades; Master of one.
When it comes to programming on the modern-day GUI (post-DOS) platform, the vast majority of my coding has been, in order of experience, using T-SQL, VBScript in ASP, and about equal parts classic VB (v3.0 to v6.0) and VB.NET. As you can see from my order of experience, I’m really a database guy, and since the …
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Contents I Ranted and Eric Rebutted While I Respect the People at Microsoft… …They Become Detached Eric Unconsciously Supports my Thesis! Dismissing the Proposal, Not Solving the Problem Not More Power; Transitionality! Today’s Potential Didn’t Address Yesterday’s Deficiency Nor Does an Orphan Address Yesterday’s Deficiency And a Potential isn’t a Solution Yes, there’s Powershell, but… …
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Paul Kimmel recently wrote an article for informit.com entitled "Anonymous Methods in C# 2.0" where he made the following statement: Linguistically, I love methods, but as a practical matter anonymous methods may just be an example of some inventive person at Microsoft being a bit too clever. Unfortunately that was the pull-quote used to promote the …
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Esther Schindler who is the editor of the email newsletter DevSource Update recently wrote about Visual C++ and Microsoft’s LINQ Project that adds the ability to use SQL code directly in VB and C# programs (emphasis mine): Ever since the PDC, developers and the press have been talking about the LINQ technology that Microsoft showed off. …
Readers of my prior posts about the "My" Classes planned for VB 2005 know that I am pretty enamored with them: here, here, and here. I think the "My" classes have the potential to become one of the most significant productivity features of VB 2005 and beyond, and could result in a huge reduction in …
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Matt Davey just posted about a presentation to management types where they asked the question (among others) “What major advantage does the C# language have over and above the Java language?“ My first thought was “attributes“ which allow developers to tag code with metadata that can be programmed against but I was sure there was …
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