After 3 months of development, we finally released a new LLBLGen Pro version, v1.0.2004.1! This update was focussed on upgrading the GUI with various new features like creation of relations and custom properties (name-value pairs, usable to generate gui elements at runtime for example), updating our database provider model to make sure all...

I started a little C++ Dll test project this morning and a good start for that is to fire up VS.NET 2003, create a new Win32 project and specify that it is a DLL. VS.NET creates an initial .cpp file for you with some plumbing code. Here's the code it generated, no editing has been done on my part: // TestLibrary.cpp : Defines the entry point...

Roy Osherove organizes a very cool contest for .NET developers out there: the Most Useful/Innovative VS.Net Add-in/Macro contest! The amount of prizes is very high, so don't miss this opportunity to win cool stuff with writing some cool add-in. I'm one of the judges but I promise I'll be gentle .

Alex Thissen reported yesterday (and we all know what day it was yesterday ) about a rumour that Objectspaces would be removed from .NET 2.0 and would be released as a separated package. It's a rumour, posted at a date when you can't trust any website, but let's say that it is true. I said as a reaction on Alex' blog: Dropping it would be the...

Dan Fernandez blogs about the Whidbey release date slip and VS.NET service packs. An understandable article and I thank him for giving some insights in the why-o-why's. He also talks about service packs and why this is a problem. He gives some reasons why service packs for VS.NET aren't released yet. Let me warn you first: reading the reasons may...

eWeek has an article about the release date slip of Yukon and Whidbey. It's more an article about Yukon than about Whidbey and for a reason: it's a known fact that Yukon holds back Whidbey, not the other way around, so if Yukon slips, Whidbey will slipperdy slide with it. From the article: According to Rizzo, both products are on the same...

Paul Wilson and Alex Thissen both blog about concurrency control related to O/R mappers. Let me start by pointing you to an article about concurrency methods I wrote some time ago: Concurrency Control Methods: is there a silver bullet?. I don't believe in low level concurrency methods, as they give you the false sense of 'it has been taken care...

Consider the following enum definition (which is defined in a C# assembly) public enum EntityState:int {    New,    Fetched,    OutOfSync,    Deleted } OK, now, we have an object which has a property called 'State' and this property is of type EntityState. All great, let's set that...

Julien writes: PSS is the first line of contact for issues and if you contact them and tell them about your issue we will look into it. If we have a hotfix available for it, even if the SP is not yet released, we will provide you it. If we don't have a hotfix and your issue doesn't have a good workaround, we will make a hotfix for you (that's how...

Jeff writes as a reply to my previous blog about Microsoft Support: I found an actual bug in the framework (one of the RewritePath() overloads) and had a nice exchange started via the online support ticket system, finished by a member of the .NET team. It's one of three times I've had to contact MS directly, and every time my problem was resolved...

Alex Lowe wrote a blog about Microsoft and developer support. In there he ventilates his misunderstanding about a blog Roy wrote about information sharing. In the blog, Alex writes these remarkable words: I believe Microsoft has the most comprehensive developer support in the industry with its tools, paid support options, free support options like...

Paul Wilson blogs: In fact, several have went out of there way to tell me how much the hostile attitudes of Frans and Thomas had turned them off! This is new to me: do I have a hostile attitude towards people? Before you stand up and cry from the top of your lungs: "Yes!", let me explain something. I'm Dutch, I'm not a native English speaker. We,...

Today I've posted this as a reply in the Microsoft.public.objectspaces newsgroup. I think it's also blogging material, so that's why I post it here too. You can decide to react here, on your own blog, but also in the microsoft.public.objectspaces newsgroup, available on the msnews.microsoft.com USENET server. The person who wrote the quote has a...

Disclaimer Although I find it absurd to put in a disclaimer, I know for a fact that talking about Multiple Inheritance (MI) is risky, because it is one of those subjects which can cause irrational reactions, resulting in flame-fests. Discussions about MI should be theoretical and thus based on theory, not about one of the many different...

Follow these easy steps. The first 4 steps you only have to do ONCE in your life. Step 5-7 you only have to do ONCE per project. Open a command prompt Type vsvars32.bat (enter) or navigate to the .NET bin dir Type: sn -k mykey.key (enter) Move mykey.key to a folder where it gets backupped daily, for example: c:\myfiles\keys\ Open your code's...