Did you know that the main architect of .Net was the main architect of Delphi (have a look at http://windows.oreilly.com/news/hejlsberg_0800.html and especially at http://aolca.com.com/2009-1001-279995.html?legacy=cnet)? He was also the guy behind WFC if you remember the previous attempts of MS to get over with Java. When you work with Visual Studio.Net form and you have worked before with Delphi, you are on home ground. When you work with C# and you have worked before with Java, you are on home ground. When .... Serge ;P

Have a look at these quite amazing screen savers... Serge

code universe Serge ;P

I don't think so. But you can find a lot of very interesting stuff at viksoe.dk. Serge

Unfortunately not! Serge ;P

See the MS VS.Net Launch Site Serge

You can have a look at SCIntilla, it's a powerful editing component, it's not MFC, activeX, WTL, ... but it can be easily hosted in any Win application. There is a sample application SciTE. There is specific support for C++, VB, Pascal, C#, SQL, LISP, Windows Batch file, Unix batch files, Windows Ini files, HTML, XML, Eiffel, Makefile, PHP, ASP ... The support of HTML is quite impressive with different lexers used for HTML, java scripts, VB scripts, ...

The author of this article criticize Apache without knowing what he's talking about. Apache has a lot evolved since two years. It has already support for SOAP => SOAP == Web Services. Have a look at xml.apache.org Have also a look at XMethods (that's the only web service directory which show the kind of HTTP server), you wil that there is already a lot of web services loacted on Appach servers... Serge

I think that there is a misprint or an error in this article. If the star is 5000 light-years ago, it means that the light of the event took 5000 years from our point of view to reach our eyes and so the event happened 5000 years ago. According to the principles on which relies the theory of relativity, there is no absolute time (you can have a look on the numerous papers explaining for example that if two events happened at the same time for an observer, for another observer moving relatively to the first observer it won't be the case). Relativity tell us that if two objects are in relative motion, the time doesn't flow at the same rate for the 2 objects. But in order to have something noticeable, the relative speed between the two object must be relativistic (close to the speed of light ~ 300000km/s). I don't think that this is the case there (the star seems to be in our galaxy and relatively close, and the relative speed of this star should be at max of a few hundred km/s). Serge

Very Interesting, have a look also at SalCentral Serge :)

Yes and no. For example, if you target your product for the international market, writing a unicode application really simplifies the job. Now (I mean in a few years when the XP base will be big enough), we will be able to develop only unicode applications and so we will avoid the hell of DBCS strings, codepages, .... Serge

I'm wondering if there is still a lot of people playing games under DOS? In my opinion the very big change is the merging of the Win9X and NT systems. What a big change, in a few years when most of the systems will be at least XP, we won't have to develop for 3 or 4 systems (Win95, Win98, NT4, win2000, ...) but just for one!!! Serge :)

Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap!!! I agree completely with you :

• Generic programming is an awesome and so powerful tool! My life as a programmer has completly changed since I used STL. Did you have a look at the containers provided by the .Net libraries, ouuch...
• Garbage collecting is a so powerful tool that either in Java or in .Net, you have a lot of API which allow you to be sure that it works as intented and that not too much ressources are wasted :eek:
• If multiple inheritance is not useful, why the hell these guys bother about interfaces. Multiple inheritance provide interface at the power 10 because you can also provide a default behavior

Serge :)

Remember that C# and VB are all compiled to native in the end. MS's technology looks very close to Java's JIT compiler (they were in fact the first to release a JIT compiler for Java, if I remember well):

• first, the code is transformed into Java bytecode
• when the program is run, the first time a piece of code is executed, it is tranformed into native code

From my experience, the difference of speed between native applications and Java applications is more than just a small difference. C# has the unsafe keyword that turns off a lot of the checks doen in managed code. My choice of the word "unsafe" was "unsafe". What I meant, it's that with C++, we can still write "native" Dlls that can be called from the .Net runtime. Serge

It will run at the same speed if you are developping a .Net application in C++, but I don't think it will run as fast as a C++ application which uses the native Win32 API and not the .NET framework... Furthermore:

• Moving to the .Net framework limits a lot what you can do when you compare with what you can do with the native API
• when speed is required (for exemple for intensive processing), it's still possible in a "C++" .Net application, to write unmanaged code. VB and C# developers don't have this choice.

Serge

I had invested quite a lot of time in writing a few C# applications. I must say that I was really upset by the huge changes in the .Net libraries. I can understand changes in the design, but people at Microsoft should have at least put somewhere in the documentation a list of these changes. I think that to let people have a early access to .Net is a really good idea, because it allows people at MS to have feedback from their customers. But it should not be only a one way process. Serge :mad:

Hello, Does someone know how to set the background and the text colors of the date/time picker? I've tried to handle the WM_CTLCOLORXXX messages but none of them are sent to the parent... Thanks Serge :)