July 15, 2008
I found a happy little email in my inbox this morning. It was a note from Handango informing me that my application to become a Handango Developer partner has been approved. Woohoo!
Ya, you know, that application I submitted more than THREE YEARS AGO when I was at Borland experimenting with writing .NET CF apps for my smartphone […]
Tags: .NET, Borland, Delphi, Handango, Programming, smartphone
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June 26, 2008
In the midst of writing some Silverlight code, something struck my funny bone: .NET has an Application.Current.
“Current” suggests “now”, and its existance suggests there was a need to distinguish “now” from something else. Does that mean there could be an Application.Next? Application.Future? Application.Past? Those could save me a lot of effort. How will I fix […]
Tags: .NET, silliness, Silverlight
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February 21, 2008
Charlie Calvert writes about dynamic method invocation that has been implemented in the .NET DLR and is working its way into getting proper support by the full VS.NET tool set. Dynamic method invocation is late binding to the extreme - the lookup is performed at runtime, every time the function call executes. The compiler has […]
Tags: .NET, Delphi, DLR, IDispatch, Variant, Win32
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