Sunday, April 18, 2004

Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

Nice idea, the tools to converting the InfoPath XML form to be ASP.NET web form.
ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures

Good article, seems like the author prefer the ASP.net, but I have to say the struts is more suitable for large web site since the structure of java struts could help the developer be able to have a better feel to the entire sytem.
ObjectSpaces and Whidbey

ObjectSpace will be come later than Whidbey, the reason seems like that ObjectSpace use some new feature in WinFS, such as a new Query syntax(hybrid-SQL-and-XPath),
is that means ObjectSpace only for Sql Server because WinFS use Sql server
FTPOnline - VSLive! SF 2004 - Model Apps More Effectively

It is hard to keep the code and Model in synchronization. MS case tools is going to make it easy.
Unit Testing a Windows Forms or Console Application

Separating the business logic code with Winform units is the key

Friday, April 09, 2004

Java Studio Creator: An IDE to Create Web Applications

The JSF web developement IDE from sun, is it as easy as Asp.net?

Monday, April 05, 2004

Essential Delphi 8 for .NET

There are a preview chapter available for downloading.
Something I got from this charper,
1. Initialization in D.net become the Static Class Method and called from Class Constructors
2. sets in D.net become the enumeration class (marked as sealed) that inherits from System.Enum.
3. the difference between record with methods and class in D.net is the way the use memory, the record is in stack and the class is in heap, so the record is a little bit more efficient.
4. StringBuilder is for increasing the performance of string concatenation. it is much faster than common string concatenation.
5. the Direct type cast became more restrictive in D.net. Integer (anObject) is no longer allowed
6. protected symbols defined in another unit are accessible only within the same assembly/package, but not across package boundary
7. ECO framework use Class Helper too, the Class Helper in D.net looks like the partial class in c#
8. published property in D.net become the BrowsableAttribute in CLR
9. Any class needing resource clean-up should implement the Dispose method of the IDisposable interface,
and add the 'using' clause in c#. the VM will free the object and resource in the the score of 'using' clause, this way eliminate the delay of GC.
in D.net, the Destroy() method becomes an implementation to Dispose. nice
10. However the Delphi 8 compiler cannot impose the presence of a specific metaclass for classes not
compiled by Delphi but imported from assemblies written in other languages.


Saturday, April 03, 2004

Oracle Technical Interview Questions Answered - Part1

A Oracle DBA or developer must read this article
XP flow Chart
WinForms is dead misconceptions are misplaced

how soon will you have 100% Longhorn coverage? Here's my guess: 2012 to 2014. so learning the winform will keep your job up to 10 years.
MSDN TV: Windows Forms and Non-Rectangular Applications

Friday, April 02, 2004

The .NET Show: Longhorn and WinFS

WinFS intergrated the Hiberarchy Files System, Relational Database and Rank based web search engine togeather, it sounds excited, but I am not sure if M$ could make the entire system easy to use, even for common people who has no IT knowledge.
How to design good APIs and Why they matter

Good article, the author wrote the effective java before,
CS CODEDOM Parser
I might use CodeDom sometime in the furture, just keep this link as reference

Thursday, April 01, 2004

The Code Project - XButton control for .NET - C# Controls

there are some GDI+ function in the source code, such as making the gradient effect
java thread model

A chinese article about the synchronized, DCL, lacyload, it introduces some important idea to all of developers who even are not java guy