Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Jason has moved his Blog 2:08:42 PM

Everett just made my day.... Sam Gentile on the new version of Visual Studio.NET: "Last, but certainly not least, there is now a Form Designer for Managed C++! You will be able to do everything you do with the C# or VB designer. You can visually design forms and work with Managed C++. This obviously opens powerful opportunities to do certain things like Direct/X without Interop penalities and much more. Its very exciting!" [Sam Gentile's Weblog] Damn straight it's exciting. Reading this paragraph just made my day. [StrangeCoding] An important affirmation of the core strengths of C++: "Games are going to be written mostly in C++ for the next umpteen-thousand years. Even if MS comes through with their promise to make managed DirectX run at 98% performance, you won't be seeing C# games on the shelves. You're probably never gonna see any form of CLR running on a console." and now the new features of Managed C++ WinForms: "So I'm back to square one, working with the built-in Dialog Editor that has barely changed in the last 4 versions of Visual Studio -- and that means internal tools create frustration from having a poor UI. But now... a Managed C++ Form designer... rock." 11:25:03 AM

New C# features: whitepaper now available. The whitepaper (a Word file) is now available. And the Demo Files link, previously dead, now works. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 10:07:48 AM