Frans Bouma's blog

Several blogs have been posted lately, especially by Paschal, about SqlServer security and .NET. People on the DOTNET-CLR mailing list are already familiar with the problem, but looking at the reactions on Paschal's blogs I can only conclude that the rest of the world, including Microsoft, is in a severe state of denial.

James Avery blogs about an article written by a person who calls himself 'Angry Coder' (I thought people called me that ;)) and that article ventilates the opinion that code generators are not useful, to say it in a politically correct way. I agree with James Avery that the article misses the advantages of code generation and how it can benefit you in your daily life. I'd say: the article is totally wrong. Here's why.

I've blogged before about wishes I had for the IDE I use on a daily basis: Visual Studio.NET (currently v2003). Since that blog I've made a new list of new wishes not mentioned in the previous wish-list. I've also included wishes for .NET and the .NET API. The list is very long so I decided to post it as a story. You can find the story by clicking here. Below is the list of items I discuss.

I've blogged before about wishes I had for the IDE I use on a daily basis: Visual Studio.NET (currently v2003). Since that blog I've made a new list of new wishes not mentioned in the previous wish-list. I've also included wishes for .NET and the .NET API. Here we go.

Apparantly I changed this blog posting instead of posting a new one, therefor this posting seems changed, it's not. :)

Yesterday I was playing around with VS.NET and discovered that I didn't use any macro's at all. So I opened up the macro IDE and looked at the examples. It's pretty easy stuff. So I wrote my first macro. It is a set of macro's actually which create #region ... #endregion sections. Two pre-defined ones for members and properties and a generic one which pops up an input box for the region name. Bind them to a hotkey and you're set. I'm pretty sure the code can be more efficient, it's my first attempt to write a macro that manipulates an active document in the IDE, so if I'm doing things in an inefficient way, that's the reason ;)

With all the new emerging heros with their books about modern age technology about how to develop good, working software the right way, you'd almost forgot that in the last 15 or so years, a lot of people have already done that on a lot of occasions. How come?

I have a copy now of Harry's new book, 'The Order Of The Phoenix'. It's even thicker than its predecessor :). Thankfully my wife volunteered to read it first, so I can continue reading Hillary's Bo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H John T. Lescroart's latest ;)