Archives for February 2008
My Take on Visual Studio 2008
I just finished five days of Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0) training, with a day of Visual Studio 2008 (.NET 3.5) sprinkled on. My take on VS2008 are as follows:
First, AJAX integration is very tight. I have actually done AJAX the manual way before (with PHP) and I appreciate how much coding VS has […]
Blu-ray Has Won
Yesterday Toshiba issued a press release saying that they are giving up on HD DVD.
How did Sony do it? By somehow getting the movie studios on their side, and by seeding the market with free Blu-ray players in the guise of the PS3.
Why Microsoft?
A colleague of mine was once IT manager of a Fortune 500 company. His job was to look after the IT needs of a couple of thousand users - email, productivity suites, business applications. During his tenure he migrated everything to Microsoft: from Domino to Exchange, from Apache and WebSphere to IIS, from Oracle to […]
Difference Between C# and VB
This is a beautiful interview trivia question: What is the major difference between C# and VB?
Answer: In C# you can write “unsafe” code, i.e., code involving pointers, whereas in VB you cannot.
Update 20 February 2008
Also, VB does not have anonymous methods.
Offline Shared Folder
Today is the first day of .NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005) training.
I learnt that you could make a shared folder work offline by pointing its drive letter to a local path (basically, faking it). The DOS command for it is subst. Example usage: subst x: c:\data. Of course, for this to work, you must first […]
