.NET Tools and BizTalk

A friend from work sent me this list of Companion Tools for .NET development [http://www.csharpfriends.com/statics/tools.aspx]. For anyone into BizTalk (2002 or 2004b [http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/beta/] ), you must checkout the BizTalk User Group [http://www.biztalkug.com/]. Its a growing community with…

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:…

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…

.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…

Interviews from PDC

Radio Interviews with .NET techies from PDC [http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/radio2003/interviews.cfm] via SYS-CON [http://www.sys-con.com/] Radio.…