Excellent post by Roland Weigelt on Visual Inheritence in WinForms

I Just thought this was a great article for anyone interested in developing WinForms in C# (or indeed and .NET language)

Decent Review of .NET Perfomance versus Java and Rotor / Mono

Found here: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/vogels/Papers/CLI-sc2003-final.pdf for those who hate PDF (I am not a fan..) here's clever little Google's HTML copy...the HTML version loses the pretty graphs though...:-(

New Blog on Graphic Apps Development (and 'other') in Managed Code

Cool new Blog - http://xplsv.com/blogs/devdiary/ by David Notario

Dumb little thing...class which outputs an Excel compatible table from a DataSet

Very simple and based on the one I blogged about previously (well not based on the code but based on the same idea). Anyway, hook this up to a link button, pass in a dataset and it'll provide a downloadable Excel compatible file... public class GetExcel {…

Brain Shutdown...oh and some semi-useful links...

Well, it's 1am, I have at least 8 hours work ahead of me but my Cerebral Cortex has unfortunately decided to cease functioning. I'm also listening to the .NET Rocks showwhere Chris Sells and Rory Blythinterview Carl Franklin...hmm...Carl si currently going on…

Very nice free bits and pieces from Lumisoft

I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…

Wow - IntelliJ is doing IDEA for C#!

I used this IDE a fair bit in my Java days, all I can say is WOW! It really is an awesome IDE - check out some of the features! So I am really pleased that there's a plan to release a version of IDEA for C#. Found this on Stefan Demetz's blog... If Roy is…

Very small tip...ViewState enabled properties

This really is a very quick tip...I think I got it from Fritz Onion'sexcellent Essential ASP.NET with Examples is C# (which I really recommend incidentally!). If you want to store a property which should persist using ViewState, you can save yourself a lot of…

Bugs in .NET !

Just noticed this on Stefano Demiliani's blog, lots and lots of bugs, some of them pretty interesting! I don't know just how 'verified' lots of them actually are: http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1660/bear-fight-slide-2-71.tclAn interesting idea of Dejan Jelovic.…

New personal crusade...

Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the mentioned methods...). I'd have thought that Web…