Archive for June 2006

Value Types vs Reference Types - Boxing Unboxing

In a custom control, I wrote a general function to handle the object equality. I have used it several times without error. However today I sent a value type instead of a reference type, and some unexpected results occured.
The base class object have some basic methods which other classes override those methods. One […]

Hakia -> A new search engine

I was surfing, and found that brilliant search engine. Hakia

According to its features It has a new algorithm for the searching called MAQ. The results looks relevant served with a simple user interface. It is worth a try. Below is the quotes..

MAQ versus Indexing
hakia’s designers broke from decades-old indexing method and built a much […]

Messenger Add-in -> MSN Messenger API

I was surfing on the developer site of Windows Live . I saw the new (for me) MSN SDK. Lastly there was only activity sdk which is not real SDK.
The new Messenger Add-in SDK is included inside MSN Live messenger, althought the site says it is a seperate download.

Anyway to use it,

Add […]

Windows Communication Foundation - Simple Web Service Call

Invoking web services is not much different in windows communication foundation. We have a tool svcutil that generates the interface and the proxy class automatically, I think this will be included later on the IDE. For this sample call I just used google search service. We use the command svcutil with the wsdl adress of […]

Worldcup Live in ASCII for Old Schools

ASCII World Cup

Just Start a telnet session and wath the matches, simply Start - Run

telnet diego.ascii-wm.net 2006

As the site states : “The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!”

Screenshot of the half time

http://www.ascii-wm.net

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Microsoft .Net Framework 3 Community Sites

Here are new community sites from microsoft. The new design looks great. It wil be the new resource for .net framework 3.

Microsoft .net Framework 3 Community

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Presentation Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows CardSpace

Synergy - Share Keyboard and Mouse on different Computers for free

Synergy is a great program that lets you share a single mouse and computer for multiple computers. You still need monitor for working.
Synergy
Settings window

Start dialog

Systray in action

Info

.Net Framework 3.0

WinFX has been renamed to .Net framework 3. Although .Net framework 3 is simple and easy to remember, I get used to Winfx.
I liked WinFX. It was like Win32, Win16..
Just like the avalon case renames to WPF, new names will be remembered at last.
Apparently there is no new version come up […]