Daily Archives: March 6, 2005

More on System Types vs Language types

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Geeze – nearly 3 years of working in .NET and I just noticed this today – ’cause I went looking for it.

For the super curious (and this hardly satisifes anything beyond that), how do you know when you are using a system type vs. a “keyword“? It’s easy with VB’s Integer (keyword), or C#s int vs. Int32, but what about String and System.String?

But now I see it….

Note the text color of the System types vs. the text color of the language keywords. Subtle. Not earth shattering, but still interesting. In a why is the sky blue kind of way…



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Looking forward to 3 hour WSE for Humans Workshop at DevConnections

WSE

As I am looking at my presentation for the 3 hour workshop I am doing on WSE Security at Connections in a few weeks, I am really excited about it. This the first time I won’t have to cram all of this information in a short session – or skip a lot of it. I am going to have plenty of time to go over the security fundamentals as well as the basics of WSE 2.0, such as what they are, how they work and how to work with the API and Policy.

Remember that this is not a regular session at ASP.NET Connections, but a pre-conference Workshop on Sunday afternoon, which you have to register for additionally. There don’t seem to be any other WSE 2.0 focused talks at the conference, although there will be some Indigo sessions and Christian Weyer and Malek Kemmou will be doing sessions on Web Services . So if you want to get started with WSE and also be prepared to start learning about Indigo, I highly recommend the extra session so that you won’t feel lost at the higher level ones!

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Mainstream support for VB6 coming to an end March 31st

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Jackie Goldstein points out this important reminder.

What’s changing:

Extended Phase (through March 2008)

  • [Still have] Standard support offerings include Premier Support, paid telephone and online incident support, and free online self-help tools.
  • Critical Updates will be available for a fee.
  • Free telephone and online incident support will no longer be available.

Don’t throw out those old MSDN Library DVDs!!! (Though the online support won’t go away for 3 more years.)



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Congrats Drew Robbins – new Microsoft Developer Evangelist!

Community Cheerleading

Drew Robbins, who I have known since the beginning of my INETA days as a very involved user group leader as well as someone who has been a great community leader in Ohio, has just become the D.E. for Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. Many of you may also know Drew as the co-creator of PDCBloggers.net and TechEdBloggers.Net as well as a few other compilations.

Drew replaces Alex Lowe who has been, from all accounts, an awesome D.E., but just couldn’t resist the call to go work with his ASP.NET homies at Telligent Systems.



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