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VB.NET
"Picking VB.NET over C# is a little like picking which Playboy bunny will join you in the hot tub—you can’t go wrong either way."
[Greg Robinson] -
Politics
On Thursday, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate panel that the United Nations “can’t be in charge.” He suggested that Russia, France and Germany could contribute to postwar reconstruction by writing off Iraq’s debts.
Iraq owes Russia and France about $8 billion each, mostly for sales and contracts concluded in the 1980s, when Iraq was at war with neighboring Iran and had friendly relations with most other countries. Russia, then as the Soviet Union, was the major supplier of arms to the Iraqi military.
But Wolfowitz, one of the main advocates of the campaign to overthrow Saddam, also said that France would have to “pay some consequences” for its opposition to the U.S. invasion, especially for opposing NATO assistance to Turkey.
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What is the Matrix?
THIS is the Matrix.
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GPLangelo
"I get tired of seeing people claim the GPL says you can't make money off covered software, or not sell covered software. The GPL says nothing of the sort. The GPL says you can't *prevent others* from sharing the software, its source code, or modifications to it, and that all modifications to it must also be under the GPL."
"RedHat makes money selling GPL'd software. Cygnus was making money selling GPL'd software before they were bought by RedHat. ArsDigita was making money selling GPL'd software before they brought in those outside VCs."
[Chris Hanson] -
ECMA / ISO
On top of an ISO seal of approval, companies can also look at the published specifications of C# and the CLI to better understand the underlying products once they purchase them, Goodhew said.
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IsNullOrEmpty
Yea, we have heard that request before... here is a method we are looking at adding a the Whidbey release of the .NET Framework on the System.String class.
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Architect Webcast: GRID-lock
Live Event:
April 10, 2003 - 11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time / 2:00pm Eastern Time. -
VBNullString
Don McNamara points out this:
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NullOrEmptyString
Tired of doing this: "if(s == null || s == String.Empty)"...
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Do not use IClonable
"I was doing a little work on the Design Guidelines document tonight and I noticed this section that we added recently. I thought I'd post it here for your comments. Where are you using ICloneable today? Do you agree with this suggestion?