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...
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...
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Jayson Knight
on 11-07-2006
Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, .Net, Irks, Vista and WinFX
What with the announcement of WinFX being renamed to .Net 3.0 , there has been some confusion as to exactly what .Net 3.0 really is. Kirk does a great job of explaining it here (a bit dated, I’m way behind on my news), but I’m still confused as to why this will be a major release and not...
The buzz around CodePlex is starting to make me nauseous. I first read about it yesterday and was actually somewhat excited about it (and was even in the middle of hammering out a post saying “great idea”…then I started poking around the site and promptly deleted the draft). I’m...
Let’s face it. Visual SourceSafe is pathetic. The admin tool is horrible, the fact that it uses a text file based database (if you can call it that) system to track projects is antiquated, and anyone who’s ever had to administer a VSS installation knows that if you even look at the database wrong, it...