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ADO.NET changes in Whidbey (May 2004 CTP)

Jun 5, 2004 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Dan Fox of Quilogy presented this topic First, What's not going to be in ADO.NET 2.0 :-( ObjectSpaces moved to the Longhorn wave Data Paging - (DbCommand.ExecutePageReader method) Stand-alone table …

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Unit Testing in Visual FoxPro

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

FoxUnit is for Visual FoxPro developers interested in test-driven development and agile practices. FoxUnit is being debuted today, here at www.devessentials.com. Their site is …

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Extensibility of VFP 9.0

Jun 5, 2004 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Sitting through Ken Levy's session and he's going over some new, cool features of 9.0 (Beta) Copying and pasting VFP 9.0 code into some other app (IE, Word) - it keeps the formatting (colors) New BLOB …

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Whidbey (May 2004 CTP) Documentation Bug

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to Fredrik Normen for posting the fix! The MSDN Library that shipped with the Visual Studio 2005 CTP for May, will not display any documents. It just searches and searches for the …

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Continuing with a tradition: The Geek Lunch

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Some of my evangelist friends at Microsoft sponser geek dinners, nerd dinners, or pub-clubs, but in Boise, we have the Geek Lunch. We've been meeting sporadically, about once a month at our favorite …

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Maximizing VPC2004 Performance

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Been playing with a lot of beta software lately, so you know what that means - learning all the ins/outs of Virtual PC 2004. I picked up a few cool tricks at Tech-Ed last week, too. As far as …

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Refactoring To Patterns

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Scott Ambler (see earlier posting) recommended this soon-to-be-published book by Addison-Wesley. Joshua Kerievsky bridges the gap between the practice of refactoring and the art of designing with …

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Misconceptions about Agile

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Scott Ambler (see below) presented this list of agile falsehoods. It's good: agile = "code and fix" agile = XP agilists don't document agilists don't model agile results in low quality agile doesn't …

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C# to Delphi converter

Jun 5, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

BabelCode is a C# to Delphi for .NET code conversion utility. It is extremely experimental and you shoul use it at your own risk. For example, copy the following code to your clipboard and then try …

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