microsoft
Don’t be too quick to dismiss Microsoft’s effort to solve the double-click problem. Try it yourself. On any explorer window, select Tools, Options, General: I believe this feature was introduced with Windows 98; it’s an attempt to map everything to the single mouse click, using the web
.net 1.0
This is something of a dying art, since Microsoft is doing their level best to pretend that .NET 1.0 doesn’t exist any more – but here are a few key utilities you’ll need when running .NET 1.0 and 1.1 side by side. Each website on an
.net
There’s an interesting article documenting the dramatic uptake of .NET: Want more proof .Net is taking off? Consider the following: In May, Forrester Research released a report that found 56 percent of developers polled consider .Net their primary development environment for 2004, compared with 44 percent for J2EE. In
debugging
I’m looking forward to VS.NET 2005 like everyone else, but the one killer feature that will absolutely compel me to upgrade on day of release is Edit and Continue. I had no idea exactly how much time I spent editing live code in VB6’s debugger until I
software development concepts
Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs you can almost think of hardware as being free. – Bill Gates We’ve all been reaping the benefits of Moore’s Law for the last 20 years, but there is one unintended consequence of this rule: as hardware becomes cheaper, software