Archive for October, 2008

LINQ to SQL is Dead?

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in News | 2 Comments »

The last few days I've been doing quite a bit of database design and implementation.  I wanted to take advantage of the new LINQ to SQL technology, following along with ... Read more..

Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

I've blogged about the CCR and DSS components as part of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio in the past. It always did seem weird for the need to download the huge ... Read more..

Free Software for Students

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

DreamSpark Microsoft announced awhile back that they were making much of their enterprise-level software available to students FOR FREE.  Yes, you heard that right -- it's a FREE DOWNLOAD. ... Read more..

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are out!

Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

It's official -- a community technology preview of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are available for download! Also, if you haven't heard, Parallel Extensions have been rolled into ... Read more..

Not As Secure As It Could Be?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Random | No Comments »

I was cleaning off my desktop and ran across this gem that I'd snagged when I was registering my copy of MATLAB: Hmm, that's interesting. Just ... Read more..

NSandbox: An Introduction

Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

In my last post I introduced a new utility library called NSandbox that makes interacting with AppDomains, or sandboxes, incredibly easy.  I didn't go into specifics about how to use ... Read more..

Announcing: NSandbox on Sourceforge

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 5 Comments »

Have you ever needed to: Use a "plugin" architecture? Unload an assembly after using it? Execute arbitrary code with different ... Read more..

CCR 101 Download Available

Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

In my last post about the CCR, I made heavy reference to the excellent "CCR 101" blog post series by Nick Gunn. I'm pleased to announce the availability of ... Read more..