.NET From India

Friend Assemblies

This is quite old, but I seemed to have missed it...

Jim Hog writes about a new modifier called Friend assemblies that is coming in Whidbey, in a comment in this blog entry.

(via Brad)

Gender Genie

The Gender Genie tries to find out whether you are male/females based on your writing pattern. I tried it with one of my blog entries and it gussed(calculated!!) right.. Interesting stuff.

Thanks to Rosh for the link.

XAML with FX 1.1??

Want to try your hands on XAML, but dont have the Longhorn PDC peices??

Check out Xamalon(Currently in Beta). According to the website, it is the XAML for Win Forms...:-)

You can write XAML like code, that is intepreted in runtime to create your winform...

(via Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet)

Received the VB.NET Resource Kit

Got it yesterday. I have not had the time to go through it fully, but it does contain a huge collection of stuff.. Samples, articles, videos etc..

But the ComponentOne controls included seem to be demo version and not the full fledged version. But the other controls seem to be real one.. The web site and the CD cover says all controls included are real version and not trials, but the C1 controls throw a trial version dialog when I run the samples. I am not sure if I missed something though...

A great set of stuff if you do any .NET programming... (Though most of the articles are on VB.NET, you can extend some to work with C# and of course all controls work in any language...)

Martin Fowler in Chennai

I am off to attend the Martin Fowler event today. So most probably I will not be posting anything new today....

XP in your Audi

My fellow MVP Anando sent me this link of a man who modified his Audi to have a comp running Win XP. Has a lot of picture..

Tinkering with HTTP.sys

HTTP.SYS is the new kernel mode http driver that ships with IIS 6. If you want to play around with the different parameters that it uses then you need to get into the registry. And MS has a KB that talks about these details!!!

INF: Http.sys Registry Settings for IIS

They do have a set of warning codes associated with each key. So know you are playing with fire here..

(via Richard Ersek's Blog)

Finalize and VB.NET

C# internally generates a base.finalize() call when you use the destrutor syntax. Though most people do not know about this, it still save a lot of possible leaks.

VB.NET did not have this feature and you had to manually put this in. The IDE puts in a MyBase.Finalize when you choose the finalize method from the dropdown.

But the problem is, what happens if I just type the sub definition?? No code is inserted. Likewise, since code is just inserted, someone can delete it too and this may lead to a problem.

The same holds good in the new Whidbey Technical Preview version too!!!

I would prefer if VB.NET also generates internal code to call the base finalizer....

Paul, Will my wish come true????

When does IIS 6 Cache a Page

Rich Ersek has a post on how the IIS 6 Kernel mode driver decides when to cache a page.

Does a page get cached or not?

dotnetindia.com

I have now registered a domain for this blog and you can access this blog thru the domain www.dotnetindia.com.

The older links will continue to work and you can still use the older links, RSS feed etc.

Typepad where I host this blog is quite cool in that sense. You can have multiple domains pointing to the same blog and the permalinks, comments etc. are mapped accordingly....