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• ApplicationSettingsBase.[Insert Event Name Here] Discrepancy

  Microsoft has done a good job when it comes to event naming within the BCL by following a common naming pattern: the gerund form of the verb is used during the act of doing something (i.e. Form.Closing), whereas the past tense is used after the act has completed (ala Form.Closed). They've also done a fairly good job of encapsulating the full lifetime of events for a set of actions, and it's fairly intuitive to find what you are looking for in the documentation. Recently I've been fooling around with... Posted Jan 26 2007, 02:44 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks

• Microsoft, I'm Pleading With You

  I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to mention it again: Microsoft is absolutely killing me with their version mismatching versioning scheme as of late. A list of complaints: The .Net Framework v3.0 is anything but a major release...hell, it's barely even a point release. It should be called .Net 2.0 extensions or something similar. A 3.0 release should contain new versions of all the core assemblies, like WinForms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc...all 3.0 includes is WCF, WPF, and WWF (sans WinFS.... Posted Nov 07 2006, 02:07 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks, Vista and WinFX

• A Case For and Against the Enterprise Library

  A Case For and Against the Enterprise Library : Already, I've run into an interesting issue: when it is better to forgo the code of the Enterprise Library and roll your own, vs. using existing code. Roll your own what? Well, the MS Enterprise Library is a set of source code (in both VB.Net and C#) that provides an infrastructure for business applications. The "blocks" that are provided include: caching, configuration, data access and instrumentation, among others. I know that many people have downloaded... Posted Aug 04 2005, 01:48 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• Applied .Net Attributes -- A Great Read

  Attributes in .Net are given the red headed stepchild treatment; misunderstood, misused, and widely ignored (at least in most of the projects I’ve worked on). They were one of those new features exposed by .Net that most of us coming from a legacy background simply didn’t understand…for me personally it was a matter of “I’ll learn about them when I get around to it, or when a project calls for their use.” I’ve done a sprinkling of custom attribute work,... Posted Jul 18 2005, 06:09 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• Signing Into Passport for the Microsoft Support Site?

  Maybe it’s just been a while since I’ve been to the Microsoft support site, but since when do you have to sign into passport to view articles? Steps to reproduce: Google “Serialize to xml c#”. Click this link (should be the 3rd one down). Get prompted to sign in to passport. Actually, just browsing to http://support.microsoft.com prompts me to sign into passport from Firefox…making the same request from IE takes me straight to the support site, no sign in necessary…I... Posted May 18 2005, 04:03 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• Managed Palindrome Code (C#) -- char[] Data is Fast

  [Update] I've been told that my solution isn't really “fair“ as it uses char[] data as parameters...a fair function call for this algorithm should accept merely a string as a parameter, i.e. “static bool isPalindrome(string s)” since most of us don't make a habit of passing char[] data around classes/dll's, plus the method should do all of the work (blackbox theory...aka encapsulation) itself. I somewhat agree with the first argument, agree less with the second argument (in... Posted Oct 13 2004, 05:40 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Installation -- Round 4

  Decided to give a little more effort into getting VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 installed. After some more googling (more time has passed since the release, so I found plenty of good articles), the general consensus seemed to be recommending using Alcohol , which I had heard of before...but if MS's own virtual ISO mounting software wasn't working, why would another? Incredibly, using Alcohol worked perfectly. I am halfway through the MSDN installation now, and will start posting my findings with VS.NET as I... Posted Oct 06 2004, 01:34 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Visual Studio

• JetBrains Omea Reader Version 1.0 Released

  JetBrains (of ReSharper and IntelliJ fame) has released v 1.0 of their RSS aggregator, Omea . They are also offering a free license until January 1st 2005, which seems like a pretty good offer given the high quality of their other products I've used. This isn't just an RSS reader though...it also manages NNTP feeds, web bookmarks, and contacts (full details are here and here ). I currently use FeedDemon ; the GUI looks awful with the Windows skin I use on my home PC, but it's lightning fast and has... Posted Oct 04 2004, 11:52 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!

  < update > I didn't realize that my “for“ loop was garbled by .Text: line 20 should read as for ( int i=0;i<halfwayMark;i++) < / update > The folks over at channel9 recently did a whiteboard session (simulating an interview technique used at Microsoft to screen candidates) whereby the “candidate” was asked to whiteboard an algorithm to determine if a string was a palindrome. While I don't know C/C++, I decided to give it a shot in managed code (C# in this case... Posted Aug 26 2004, 04:06 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net

• Javascript Confessions

  I have a confession to make: I don't know javascript (ECMA script, jscript, whatever you want to call it). Scratch that actually, I know javascript - the language (I mean, come on...it's almost identical in syntax to C/C++/Java/C#), I just don't really know the DOM too well. I can do basic stuff, but I've really realized my limitations with it recently. If I can't do it, more than likely someone else has done it and published it on the web; it's just a matter of finding it; I rarely write my own... Posted Aug 07 2004, 07:55 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, General, .Net