Last Friday I needed to write a batch file that executes a command several times. I failed because I never fell in love with the syntax. As a guy who started to use PC in Windows 95 and to program ...
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Product Review: Free LINQ Book From MS Press
Introducing Microsoft LINQ is now a free e-Book available from MS Press. You can download it from here. Microsoft is promoting LINQ hard so as to make it even more popular. http://csna01.libredigi...
GrapeVine Voice: NDepend Changes
“CQL constraints violations highlighted in report” was once a feature available in Trial/Academic/Open Source Edition of NDepend and now is no longer there. Thus, I have to manually check the CQL r...
GrapeVine Voice: Pass FxCop And NDepend
Why I did not release GrapeVine 6.0 yet? I thought I’d better review the source code carefully so FxCop and NDepend were used to analyse the code base. As expected there were a lot of critical iss...
UAC Off On Applications
I love UAC. If you find it boring, I guess you never use Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution before. At last Windows Vista learns something from other more secure operating systems. But it is rat...
Visual Studio Clones RAD Studio?
After releasing Visual Studio 2008, MSBuild team asks its users what should be implemented in next version of Visual Studio. It is funny to see the following items are highlighted, Make .sln files...
Vista SP1 Performance
I was expecting Vista SP1 and had installed SP1 RC as soon as it was available. But I did not see any significant improvement. Today I saw a piece of news on CSDN.net that Vista SP1 RC performs eve...
GrapeVine Voice: Possible JSON
.NET 3.5 introduces a JSON formatter. So I am considering giving up Yaowi’s XmlSerializer and XmlDeserializer some time later. I know this may break compatibility. So I will do that only if .NET 3...