Memi.ReflectionPrivate members of memi's thoughtsIIS on XP Home- August 23, 2004 Yep, that's possible. My machine had crashed yesterday, and is in the lab right now. Looks like the vent has gone crazy. As usual, I had a really urgent .NET thingy to finish, so I wanted to use my wife's laptop (IBM R40, cute little machine) for this. There was no problem installng the VS.NET. Since it went so well, I though to myself: "Well, why won't we try to install a web server". I started with Cassini, but the VS.NET didn't get used to it. I then found this article, and voila!...http://weblogs.asp.net/memi/archive/2004/08/24/219134.aspx OT Cute easter egg for VB6- August 15, 2004 I may be the last one to hear about it, but in case there is someone who didn't know that: 1. From VB's View Menu, select toolbar, then customize......2. In the resulting dialog, click on the command tab.3. In the Categories List, select Help.4. Select "About Microsoft Visual Basic" in the Command List, and drag it to anymenu or the toolbar.5. Right-click on the item you just dragged and rename it to "Show VB Credits"(without quotes).6. Then close the "Customize" dialog and click on the "Show...http://weblogs.asp.net/memi/archive/2004/08/15/214788.aspx The best thing to happen to Java...- August 15, 2004 ... is .NET. I know it sounds a bit strange, but I really think that's true. Before the .NET era, the world was divided between two groups: The USA and the USSR. Ok, just joking: The programming world was divided between two groups: The VB group, and the Java group. There were some smaller groups, such as the Delphinians, the Perlians, and even some Cobolists, but the major ones where, undoubtly, the VB'ers and the Java-ists. Those two groups almost didn't communicate between them. The Javaists.http://weblogs.asp.net/memi/archive/2004/08/15/214787.aspx Item Templates in Visual Studio 2005- August 15, 2004 One of the first things I've checked in Beta 1 of VS 2005 was the way to customize its item templates. I think this feature in general is one of the best productivity boosters around, and once implemented correctly can reduce development time remarkably. The reason most organizations don't use this feature is that in order to use it one would have to dive into complex ASCII files and obscure directories, without any reasonable debugging mechanism and sparse docs. There are some tools in...http://weblogs.asp.net/memi/archive/2004/08/15/214770.aspx SUN vs MS on Web Services - what really matters- August 5, 2004 I couldn't overcome my curiosity, and I donwloaded the source code used by SUN for their comparison of the .NET vs Java web service performance. The first thing that striked me was, that out of 208 files in the ZIP file, only 44 are related to .NET. All the rest are required by the Java implementation. I think that's also means something when comparing those technologies.http://weblogs.asp.net/memi/archive/2004/08/05/208631.aspx |