Lance's Whiteboard

This isnt all-inclusive, but a good start. There are so many articles from MS right now, its going to take a while to catalog.

I just noticed that the Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap was updated with much of the information presented earlier this year. However, there is much more text describing each of the projects.

This pretty much sums-up the majority of the reason why I have the PDC Blues this week…

"Whidbey" Content at the PDC

For those of us MSDN Subscribers missing out on PDC 2003, you can contact MSDN customer support and order a FREE copy (DVD only) of the same bits given-out at PDC. The following was posted on MSDN Subscriber Downloads:

I'm an admitted audio-quality biggot, so when a coworker introduced me to the audio player utility FooBar, I was skeptical of his claims of it being a better mousetrap. But, now after a little time switching back and forth, listening to the same music on Media Player 9, and FooBar, I have to admit its lack of a descent UI is definitely compensated by its incredible audio-processing.

I was recently reminded of Eric Gunnerson's 2001 MSDN article "Writing Exceptional Code". This pretty much sums-up my feelings:

Based upon Joel's recent post on the evils of Exception handling, I guess I have been foolish to worry so much about defining best practices in Exception Handling...

I'm a newbie to many of the established OO patterns, but am trying to learn.  Many months ago, I joined the GDN Workspace for the MS User Interface Application Block.  This application block employs Model-View-Controller(MVC) style pattern that intrigued me.  Overall, I understood the premise, but frankly ,so far, it seemed too complicated to understand.