100 minutes – that’s what it took to remove Beta 1 and install Beta 2 on my Fujitsu Laptop (P4 1.7 GHz, 512 MB). I include the full details below :- Uninstall VS.NET Beta 1 : 10 AM to 10:16 AM (16 mins) Uninstall MSDN for VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 : 10:16 AM to 10:22 [...]
Entries from April 2005
VS.NET 2005 – Beta 1 to Beta 2 in 100 minutes
April 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Tags: General
My first MSDN chat
April 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Yesterday (Apr 27th, Indian time), I hosted my first chat on MSDN India Community Chats. Title : Visual C++ 2005 – Language Enhancements Description : Join this chat to know the goals behind C++/CLI, how it’s an improvement over the now-obsolete MC++ syntax, handles & pointers, the new managed array syntax, implicit boxing, templates, generics, [...]
Tags: General
Simulating polymorphic operator overloads with C#
April 25th, 2005 · No Comments
Isn’t that a fancy-sounding title? Jambo Johnson (Mister .NET) thought so too and so we used that as the title for our combo-article on The Code Project :- Link to article Basically, the article shows how you can work-around the operator-overloads must be static limitation in C# to simulate polymorphic behavior for operators.
Tags: CLR/.NET BCL
Send mail without specifying an SMTP server
April 25th, 2005 · 10 Comments
Frequently, this question pops up in newsgroups and forums where people ask how they can detect the user’s SMTP server (usually to send a mail from the app without using MAPI). I always reply with my solution of querying the MX record for the target domain and then SMTP-chatting to that server directly – it’s [...]