Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Have you "met Dr. Thip"?

The Saturnian moons that will be observed by the Cassini probe are:

Mimas [MY-mass]
Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus]
Tethys [TEE-this]
Dione [dy-OH-nee]
Rhea [REE-a]
Titan [TY-tun]
Hyperion [hi-PEER-ee-en]
Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus]
Phoebe [FEE-bee]

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Microsoft has some .NET 2.0 development tools at MSDN Lab that have gone to beta and can be freely downloaded. They include "Visual C# 2005 Express", "Visual Web Developer
2005 Express", and "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition".

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Here's a couple of links with some more info:
Whidbey Beta 1 Ships
Visual Studio 2005 Express Products (Includes a link to MSDN Express that didn't seem to be with the other express products)

Paint.NET

Paint.NET: "Paint.NET is a senior design project aided by a mentor at Microsoft. It is a paint program designed entirely by students and written using Microsoft's .NET Framework. The program makes it easier to create and edit photos. It maintains some of the best features of the original MS-Paint application and includes new, powerful tools. Such new tools include a history storage for undos and redos, and powerful multi-layering which is often seen only in high-quality, expensive photo-applications. This product was engineered with the latest in graphics and coding technology such as the new C# language from Microsoft, and the GDI+ graphics libraries. These programming frameworks allowed for the creation of a speedy, responsive application with an amazing array of graphic capabilities."

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Sysinternals Freeware - Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000

Sysinternals Freeware - Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000

They've got a lot of useful utilities. Including:

Process Explorer v8.4
Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.

Autoruns v4.31
See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.

Friday, June 11, 2004

Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET

Roy Osherove found another .NET Set implementation

Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET: "One of the missing collection classes in .Net is one that's not as often used, but when you need it, boy, it's really missing, is the Set. You know - Set theory ('Group Theory') and all, including Intesect, join and so on.
I found this really nice Set implementation library with Source over on CodeProject :
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/sets.asp "

Virus Proofing

This will probably prove useful for my relatives.

A Simple Plan: "Virus-proof your PC in 20 minutes, for free"