Alex Hoffman
Perspective on development, management and technology
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Directions on Microsoft
Directions on Microsoft have some useful articles and resources available online e.g. ...
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Why Don't Most Windows Systems Have .NET Installed?
It's an all too common response to the question of using .NET code.
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Can Sun Tempt Windows Developers?
Can Sun Java Studio Creator (formerly Project Rave) tempt Windows platform developers?
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Shared Code, the GAC and Applications
A recent developer mailing list discussion questioned the efficiency of shared code, suggested the GAC should never be used, and suggested that (enterprise) applications should never be installed on the client.
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Synthetic Feeds and Australian Bloggers
There has been some discussion recently in the Australian .NET community about creating an Australian community weblog server, so one could have an aggregated feed for Australian weblogs.
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Win32 to .NET Framework API Map
“This article identifies the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.0 or 1.1 APIs that provide similar functionality to Microsoft Win32 functions. One or more relevant .NET Framework APIs are shown for each Win32 function listed.
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ASCII vs ANSI Encoding
A question posted on the Australian DOTNET Developer Mailing List ...
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Dynamic Dialogs
Roland Weigelt in a recent blog entry talks about having to spend too much time on producing relatively simple dialogs. In the past, I found myself thinking about this too, mainly because I wanted a dialog (GUI) alternative to providing arguments on the command line.
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Axapta vs Navision
For those involved in MS Business Solutions, or those just wondering about the difference between two of Microsoft's important business solution products - Axapta and Navision, the following (annotated) post by Gerrit Combrink and Rene on the Microsoft.Public.Axapta newsgroup might be helpful:-
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On MSH - The Longhorn Command Shell
The Longhorn command shell - MSH (Microsoft Shell)- was announced at the 2003 PDC.