Faster Managed Code & Self-Installing Service

Jan Gray from the Microsoft CLR Performance Team wrote a while back on Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/fastmanagedcode.asp] . A very nice article to read. Craig Andera [http://staff.develop.com/candera/] shows HowTo:…

Longhorn Article at CNET News

A new article (special report) on Longhorn [http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html] and Microsoft’s future strategy has been published at CNET News -?Is Microsoft’s new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company’s winner-take-all software strategy from a…

Ask a Language Designer

“Have a question about the Visual Basic .NET language? Want to know why the language has or doesn’t have a particular feature? Why something was done in a particular way? Where the language might be going? Just enter your question below and your question will be considered for a…

Longhorn Goodies

Thanks to Brad Adams [http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/] for?posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/LHArch.PDC2003.png] and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.pdf] / JPG [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.jpg]). Ofcourse,…

.NET Rocks! Hosted by MSDN

.NET Rocks! [http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp] now has a mirror repository?hosted?by MSDN [http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/]. http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/…

Managing Windows Services

It may happen that you wish to connect to and control the behavior of a Windows Service – programatically. There’s a .NET class called ServiceController [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicecontrollerclasstopic.asp] just to do that. It represents a Windows service and allows…

AssemblyDiff Tool

John Lam (iunknown) [http://www.iunknown.com/] has developed a small utility that will diff two different sets of assemblies and calculate the diff between .NET v1.1 and v1.2 of the Frameworks. Check it out here [http://www.iunknown.com/000364.html] ……

Articles at MSDNAA

The following two articles at MSDNAA [http://msdnaa.net/] are?pretty interesting: Use Design Patterns to Simplify the Relationship Between Menus and Form Elements in .NET [http://msdnaa.net/Resources/display.aspx?ResID=2337] – In Windows Forms applications, similar commands, such as those in a menu and their counterparts on…