General .NET Development

Visual Studio 2008 Released!

Chad Albrecht — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:09:00 GMT

Yes it’s true! Microsoft released VS2008 today. Scott informs me that Microsoft will be doing a launch party for the .NET User Group on Dec. 11th. Sign up here.

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VS2008 & .NET 3.5

Chad Albrecht — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:18:00 GMT

I'm very excited to hear that VS2008 will be released at the end of this month sometime! Brad Abrams posted a great diagram of whats included in .NET 3.5.

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Google's .NET Client

Chad Albrecht — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:52:00 GMT

I just discovered that Google has a fairly impressive .NET client library to interface with their services. Looks like you can talk to Blogger, Calendar, Speadsheet, Code Search, Picasa and YouTube just to name a few. I'd love to be able to talk to Analytics, but I'm not sure if I can.

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Multi-touch without and iPhone

Chad Albrecht — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:48:00 GMT

Channel 9 has a great behind-the-scenes look at some of the people and hardware involved with MS multi-touch. I can't help thinking of Tom Cruise in Minority Report when I watch stuff like this:

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Comment Spam

Chad Albrecht — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Got more comment spam last night! Even with Captcha turned on! (Thanks casey) Time to try something a little different.

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C4

Chad Albrecht — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:35:00 GMT

That would be Charlie Calvert's Community Convergence. A great list of links related to C#, LINQ, F#, PFX, etc.

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Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX)

Chad Albrecht — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:55:00 GMT

Channel 9 has an interesting video that gives an overview of the .NET PFX framework. PFX is a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware. Cool stuff!

Introduction to Grid Computing Presentation

Chad Albrecht — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:12:00 GMT

I presented last night at the Wisconsin .NET Users Group on an "Introduction to Grid Computing." Overall it went well but Alchemi, the open source grid framework I was using, crashed during the demos. :( I had the audience participate in the grid and we had a 25GHz grid with about 16 nodes. It would appear from examining the log file this morning and doing some reading, that my use of the Alchemi Console is what caused the crash. It would have been cool to see some of the demos run on a 25GHz grid...oh well maybe next time!
For those of you that are interested, the PDF of my presentation is here. The grid demos are included in the Alchemi download and the ExcelGrid Demo is here. If you plan to use the ExcelGrid demo, you should note that I could not get the calc.exe to work correctly and wrote my own. If you are interested in this, send me an email.

Dynamic DNS client

Chad Albrecht — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:05:00 GMT

For those of you who use a dynamic DNS service (DynDNS, no-ip, etc.), I wrote a C# based updater client. The project contains a class library, console app and service. It is designed to be extended to other mechanisms for fetching the IP and reporting it to the DNS server. Right now it uses the checkip service of dynDNS and updates RegisterFly.com. Full VS2005 project and source code available here.

July WI .NET Users Group Meeting

Chad Albrecht — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:00:00 GMT

I will be presenting at the July WI .NET Users Group Meeting. The topic will be an “Introduction to Grid Computing.” The meeting is at 7:00 on July 11th at the Medical College Building. Here is the summary from the UG page:

Have a power hungry application on a machine that just can’t handle it? Don’t buy a faster machine, steal the cycles you need! In his presentation, Chad Albrecht will discuss the basics of grid computing using .NET technologies. Grid computing provides an interesting means of distributing applications across any number of machines. Learn the fundamentals of grid computing, data grids, basic SQL Server scaling out and a few other tricks. Those in attendance will be able to use their laptops as active grid nodes, so make sure to bring it along!

Hope to see everyone there!