Can Microsoft’s Developer Division Compete Moving Forward?

I’ve been planning to blog about this for some time but just haven’t gotten to it. Well here goes… Contents Is Microsoft’s Approach Failing? After Ten Years; Too Little, Too Late? Providing Solutions Frequently Just Not a Priority Core “Real World” Problems Not Addressed Values “Sugar”-Free Over Productivity Focuses on Details, NOT the Big Picture …

Assertions in VB.NET?

Blake Watson talks about RemObject’s Chrome, a Pascal that’s not Delphi, on DevSource. There he talks about “class contracts“, a concept I’ve liked since I first read Bertrand Meyer‘s Object-Oriented Software Contruction, 1st edition back in the late 80’s back, and a feature I’d love to see in VB.NET. Whaddayasay Mr. Vick?

Mort, the “Hobbyist”, and the “Occupational” Programmer get their due

Several months ago I blogged about the need for a much simpler way to get into .NET, and I named my proposed solution VBScript.NET (in hindsight the name was a poor choice because people assumed I was proposing porting VBScript to .NET instead of providing a simplified VB.NET, but highsight often is 20/20…) And I …

What information do you need when you consider purchasing a component?

UPDATE (2006-May-18): I am no longer running Xtras.Net As many of you know, my company produces a printed catalog called Xtras.Net which we subtitle Your Source for Quality .NET Tools. However, we are revising the design for the next printing, and also adding features to our website to coordinate with some of the changes. For …