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Mono 1.0

Mono has gone 1.0. Looking forward to trying it out. I do a lot of .NET work, and like the APIs and C# — just not too fond of the lock-in.
I’ve been watching Mono, but haven’t had time to dig into prerelease versions. Now that it’s final, I’m more interested.

Friday, July 2nd, 2004. Posted in .NET | 1 Comment »>

str/boolean - string/bool

The two languages I’m currently writing most of my code in at work are C# and X++ (proprietary Axapta language). One thing about the base datatypes is driving me nuts, however. In C#, strings are “string” and booleans are “bool”. In X++, strings are “str” and booleans are “boolean”.
Doesn’t that seem a [...]

Wednesday, September 10th, 2003. Posted in .NET, Dynamics AX | No Comments »>

Wrapping

Well, after some investigation, it seems the COM API for GFI Faxmaker ( our fax server at work ) isn’t terribly well crafted, and doesn’t have the necessary component structure to allow it to be introspected by Microsoft’s development tools.
So what, you say? Well, then I guess you aren’t trying to automate Faxmaker in [...]

Wednesday, February 12th, 2003. Posted in .NET | No Comments »>

.NET

Just spent a little time reviewing the Microsoft ASP.NET docs at gotdotnet.com. I’m surprised to say that it looks like a pretty attractive development platform. They’ve really addressed a lot of the horrible clumsiness that is ASP, and provide much better abstraction, and thankfully, non-VB language choices. C# looks like a pretty [...]

Tuesday, December 26th, 2000. Posted in .NET | No Comments »> Next Entries »