For you Germans among my readers, it might be interesting to know that the last and the current edition of the dot.net magazin have articles written by me - a workshop article about the rubberband project in the 12/05 edition and a test of Developer Express XtraPivotGrid in the 01/02/06 edition. There’s also something upcoming about [...]

For you Germans among my readers, it might be interesting to know that the last and the current edition of the dot.net magazin have articles written by me - a workshop article about the rubberband project in the 12/05 edition and a test of Developer Express XtraPivotGrid in the 01/02/06 edition. There’s also something upcoming about [...]

GAT (the Guidance Automation Toolkit) is an interesting package that allows you to easily create VS extensions, wizards, template engines and similar things, without going through all the hassle that the Visual Studio SDK (used to be VSIP) still involves. The new Dec 2005 CTP runs on VS 2005 RTM, which makes the whole thing [...]

GAT (the Guidance Automation Toolkit) is an interesting package that allows you to easily create VS extensions, wizards, template engines and similar things, without going through all the hassle that the Visual Studio SDK (used to be VSIP) still involves. The new Dec 2005 CTP runs on VS 2005 RTM, which makes the whole thing [...]

Weird title, cool thing. Just a quick pointer to a toolkit that had so far escaped my attention: the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Extensions In a nutshell, it allows you create wizards for VS very easily, that can perform complex tasks related to code generation. Input can be queried from the user, selections can be made [...]

Weird title, cool thing. Just a quick pointer to a toolkit that had so far escaped my attention: the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Extensions In a nutshell, it allows you create wizards for VS very easily, that can perform complex tasks related to code generation. Input can be queried from the user, selections can be made [...]

Developer Developer Developer day 2 was yesterday and it was fantastic. I met a bunch of people there and at the geek dinner afterwards. If you were there and we didn’t meet, bad luck… I’m sure we’ll manage next time - or you could just drop me a line. Anyway, don’t forget to leave your [...]

Developer Developer Developer day 2 was yesterday and it was fantastic. I met a bunch of people there and at the geek dinner afterwards. If you were there and we didn’t meet, bad luck… I’m sure we’ll manage next time - or you could just drop me a line. Anyway, don’t forget to leave your [...]

In a newsgroup I replied to a question about calculating average data throughput during data reception over the network. A simple average bytes per second calculation needs only a few lines of code: int bytesTotal = 0; int bytesPerSecond = 0; DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now; do { bytesRead = receiveStream.Read( ... ); bytesTotal += bytesRead;...

In a newsgroup I replied to a question about calculating average data throughput during data reception over the network. A simple average bytes per second calculation needs only a few lines of code: int bytesTotal = 0; int bytesPerSecond = 0; DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now; do { bytesRead = receiveStream.Read( ... ); bytesTotal += bytesRead;...

This is the eighth article in my mini series about object pooling. Be sure to read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7 first. So, although the number of downloads of the sample program hasn’t been exactly great, I’m finally continuing the series. As I said in a [...]

This is the eighth article in my mini series about object pooling. Be sure to read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7 first. So, although the number of downloads of the sample program hasn’t been exactly great, I’m finally continuing the series. As I said in a [...]

And another piece of good news that had so far escaped me: in .NET 2, it’s finally possible to explicitely configure the order in which class members are serialized to XML. See the XmlElementAttribute.Order property.

And another piece of good news that had so far escaped me: in .NET 2, it’s finally possible to explicitely configure the order in which class members are serialized to XML. See the XmlElementAttribute.Order property.

Using a new feature called Version Tolerant Serialization in .NET 2, it becomes possible to change class definitions and still deal with old serialized data versions after an application has been updated. This is actually extremely easy to do. Consider this code: [Serializable] public class Test { string name; public string Name { [...]