Thursday, March 06, 2003

VB.NET Futures VB.NET Futures. We've all seen the list of features that are slated for C#.  At VS Live, they unveiled some of what's coming for VB.NET. Printing looks like it's getting a whole lot easier with some classes that give you a more intelligent API. XML Doc comments Looked like they're doing some cool stuff to make it easier to build data-centric UIs (Drag/Drop a table from the Server Explorer to see automatically generated UI, easily change the look/feel of the UI and add a child table) Some other new controls (XP-Style list view, Sound control, etc.) And the big things... Edit and continue Support for generics [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog] 5:09:00 PM    comment []

.NET Webservice Studio .NET Webservice Studio is pretty nifty. It allows you to test SOAP endpoints interactively; a great tool for developing XML Web Services. Makes a great gift! ;-) 2:53:36 PM    comment []

PR: Microsoft Releases Real-Time Communications Platform Beta Version http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Mar03/03-05GreenwichBetaPR.asp 9:57:23 AM    comment []

Test-Driven Development In .NET http://www.peterprovost.org/wiki/ow.asp?Test%2DDriven%5FDevelopment%5FIn%5F%2ENET Unit testing == goodness 8:37:46 AM    comment []

InfoWorld: SOAP author says enough specs already A call to arms! ;-) http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/05/HNmanyspecs_1.html AKA, "Less time writing, more time developing." +1 8:32:28 AM    comment []

Mixing the Web Services Cocktail by Christian Weyer (Part 2) A second installment of "Mixing the Web Services Cocktail": ".NET’s itchy feet: Remoting Web Services" Keep 'em coming, Christian! 6:53:50 AM    comment []