Today was I was on holiday, doing a « faire le ponte » between the weekend and the public holiday toussaint (all saints day). I had chance to get lots of little jobs out of the way, such as tidying the garden and making the Christmas puddings. In between that I installed Visual Studio 2005 RTM on my laptop as apposed to a virtual machine.   So I thought I’d also take some time to write up some notes on things that I have noticed reflecting over generic types in framework version 2.0. In, what I shall...

As noted here and here I have created some documents for F# using NDoc and the xml files that are available on with the F# download. There still in "beta" phase as I'll be making refinements such as search engine optimisations, as well as a build in search, but you may already find them useful. Enjoy!

This is an explanation of why the var “keyword” is like it is, and how this effects anonymous classes. I should probably point out I’m nothing to do with the C# design team, so these are merely my own opinions.   The var is all about type inference, it’s important to remember this is still static typing. The var keyword informs the compiler that it should try and infer the type of variable; if it can not do this a compile error is generated. One very important aspect of the var keyword is that it...

Last night we ate at the palace kitchen, why? Because Don Box recommended it to us! And very good it was too, we enjoyed a nice bottle of west coast red wine, which even my French friend Eric thought was good.   Anyway when our small party met him he was in the middle of a discussion with another Microsoft guy about xaml. They were talking about the possibility of using xaml to generate in memory only assemblies, of course while this is fun it does raise all sort of security issues, so Don suggest...

I recently started measuring what gets downloaded and this made me noticed that my AssemblyExplorer tool is still very popular. I found this a little strange as its hopeless out of date. Also, why wouldn't you just use reflector Anyway as it was popular I decided I’d revamp it, and sat down to do just that this morning. I successful completed the first stage of things, it now it works with the latest version of F# and AbsIl.   Updating it was a bit of a strange experience, the design of the application is a little odd...