Avalon 3D: Do we need it right now if it doesn’t deliver what we need?

Ryan Dawson made a post called “Avalon 3D Must-Haves”. In the post he makes a few good points about the 3D stack in Avalon that I figured I’d chime in on. Here goes… I think his first point is the most important. If we can’t use another scene as an interactive texture on a 3D surface then that’s […]

When’s the next drop then…?

Hopefully things have cooled enough since the cut-back announcement to ask this question without everyone getting all upset or starting yet another thread of FUD, so here goes: It’s been quite some time since the general development community has seen a refreshed drop of Longhorn… I believe WinHec was the last? Obviously things are a […]

Another Suggestion Made For Whidbey

I just entered a suggestion for the Whidbey .NET Framework. It has to do with adding a Disposed event to the SqlDataReader. Every other major class (SqlConnection, SqlCommand, SqlDataAdapter, etc.) in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace has a this event, so why not SqlDataReader. My personal reason for having it is that I have a data access […]

ConfigXmlDocument does not set BaseURI

Here’s a missing piece of functionality that’s frustrating me right now: Basically, XmlDocument has a virtual property called BaseURI that subclasses can override to provide the base URI (go figure) from where the XmlDocument instance was loaded. In a normal XmlDocment, if you call the Load override specifying the “filename” parameter, it will set it’s BaseURI […]

Toshiba Satellite P25-S676 Laptop For Sale

I’m selling my Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 over on eBay. It’s a great machine and less than a year old. In fact, it’s still under the original warranty! I loved that thing… actually I loved it so much that the reason I’m selling it is because I picked up the newer P25-S676 model.  It’s basically the exactly same thing […]