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  • Language Level Pattern Support

    One thing I've been wondering lately is why there isn't more support for design patterns at the language or framework level in any language. It would really speed things up. I guess the addition of C# templates could solve some of these issues, but it sure would be nice to have some functionality built into the compiler for things such as factories.

    Example:

  • Office 11 on MSDN

    "MSDNĀ® subscribers will have access to download the Office System Beta 2 starting March 11, 2003. Visit the MSDN Web site to learn more about MSDN subscriptions."

  • Office 11 Betas

    "As previously reported, concurrent with the rebranding, Microsoft officially launched Office 2003 Beta 2, which will be available to about a half million beta testers and businesses. Microsoft mailed the software late last week to the 12,000 people that tested Beta 1, which was released in October. Microsoft plans to ship Office System during the summer."

  • More VS 2003 Goodness

    Another cool VS 2003 goody: When in the C# editor, editing a derived class. Typing something such as "protected override " will bring up autocomplete on protected overridable members from the base class.

  • Interested

    "Still, if anyone is interested - I'll see if I can whip up something similar in a server control."

  • ASP.NET WYSIWYG Xml Editor

    This FreeTextBox.NET thing got me thinking about the whole XML based editor idea again and how frustrating it was to get Xopus running on top of .NET. So, I got to thinking, how would you go about making your own .NET based XML editor? Well, it needs XML, XSD, XSL support and the Framework covers that. The question is, how do you insert editable areas into the page?  Take this simple example:

  • Hello World

    public class JoiningTheExodus
    {
      public static void Main()
      {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
      }
    }