Thursday, July 17, 2003

VM Ware vs Virtual PC Google Search It Itron seems to have selected VM Ware as their primary virtual machine software (for testing purposes mostly).  I have been trying Virtual PC (which Microsoft acquired from Connectix) but I have not tried VM Ware.  I have been very impressed with Virtual PC, however, and since it is another product that presumably will be supplied with MSDN Universal (if not the OS) it is another licensing cost I can avoid. Yasser points a key advantage with Virtual PC is the fact that it uses the right device drivers for the hardware versus the virtualized device drivers used VM Ware. 10:15:08 PM   []    comment []

Enterprise Localization Toolkit by Todd Abel Google Search It This is an interesting as our Alameda office stores resources in the database rather than in resource files and this article describes a toolkit from Microsoft that does the same thing.  Hmmm..... 1:00:27 PM   []    comment []

Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost by Jan Gray Google Search It The most noteworthy item in this article was that there was no difference in performance between a property and a field unless the property was marked as virtual (in which case it was 6 times slower.)  Hmmmm....  I would have thought the difference to be negligible not zero.  Also, if you wish to do your own timings the high performance API declarations are as follows:     [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("KERNEL32")]     private static extern bool QueryPerformanceCounter(         ref long lpPerformanceCount);     [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("KERNEL32")]     private static extern bool QueryPerformanceFrequency(         ref long lpFrequency); 12:57:06 PM   []    comment []

SOAP Futures by Remoting Guru Ingo Rammer Google Search It This is an interesting post by remoting expert Ingo Rammer on the future of SOAP and how it too will support channels and formatters.  Does this mean we will get a binary formatter as part of Microsofts web services architecture? 12:49:17 PM   []    comment []

An WIN32 API Wrapper Google Search It While reading through responses to Chris Sells' blog about Interop Declarations for Windows.h I came across this post that seems to be more promising than the automated one provided by Chis.  I would like to see Microsoft provide this in Whidbey. 12:32:10 PM   []    comment []

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