MFC library updates for Visual C++
A recent downloadable Visual C++ 2008 feature pack beta has power tools covering both the client and server sides of things. The VC++ 2008 MFC libraries have been extended to help developers work with...
View ArticleLang.NET shows Iron Python with Robotics Studio, JScript on DLR
Microsoft’s Lang.NET Symposium 2008 got up and running yesterday. C# father Anders Hejlsberg talked about C# 3.0 features, IronPython guru Hugunin discussed the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and...
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TFS to the rescue — almost
(Editor’s note: This is the first blog post by Christopher Yager, who will be writing on the .NET Developments blog from time to time. Yager is chief software architect at GLD Solutions Inc. and is...
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WCF Certificates, by example
We bought into .NET Remoting early and have quite a few products in place that exploit the .NET Remoting lifestyle. Did I say lifestyle? Yes. It seems that, once you go remoting, you don’t want to go...
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VB6 Programmers – What happened to Printer.Print?
This post goes out to all you VB geeks that are wondering what happened to Printer.Print in VB. This may be a dated topic but I have a feeling there are a few out there longing for those VB6 days when...
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Anonymous Methods – Elegance or Kludge
According to Wikipedia, a kludge (or, alternatively, kluge) is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts...
View ArticleVC++ gets update, VB6 gets heave
Microsoft development honcho Soma Somasegar reports that a Visual C++ 2008 Feature pack has shipped. In January the pack came out in beta. MFC components included in the pack allow developers to create...
View ArticleIterators, Lambda, and LINQ… Oh My!
Since the creation of the .Net Framework, Microsoft has kept the concept of “Type Safe” at the forefront of their design goals. When 1.1 shipped, the framework had a “generic” collection type called...
View ArticleMono brings C# to the iPhone, Wii
Mono is best known as an open source implementation of .NET, but as we mentioned in our coverage of Mono 2.0, the project actually started with just a C# compiler. The idea was that C# is a nice...
View ArticleOur readership survey is in!
The vast majority of SearchWinDevelopment.com readers are using modern tools, but a significant number of them are also interested in maintaining legacy applications, according to a readership survey...
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