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Atom.NET grows with Mvp-Xml

Atom.NET (the cvs version, but the new release will be here soon) grows with the integration of part of the Mvp-Xml library, an effort made by various Microsoft’s MVPs to enhance .NET System.Xml support. Thanks to Daniel Cazzulino (XML MVP) for the support.I’ve also added an example made in VB.NET by Russell Lindell. See the [...]

Mono 1.0 is out

Here are the release notes: http://www.mono-project.com/using/relnotes/1.0.html

Generics are cool, but Python is cooler

My friend Valentino has posted on his blog about a sample of code with C# and generics and he rewrote the sample in Python Here the samples:C# 2.0:List integers = new List();for(int i=1; i< =10; i++) integers.Add(i);int sum;integers.ForEach(delegate(int i){ sum+=i; });vsPython (basically any version):sum([x for x in xrange(11)])

Limits of XPath in .NET

In those days I was trying to enhance parsing capabilities of Atom .NET and since I based all the API around XPath I tried to gain more advantages from .NET implementation. The only limit I recognized is the lack of the capability to “serialize” the content of a visiting node (something like InnerXml or OuterXml [...]

To My or not to My?

I’m not mad, I’m talking about the custom My namespace that will be here with the .Net next shipment. Before getting into deep I want to spend two or three words about what My is and what it’s all about. First, I’m not a VB developer (I’ve basically never wrote more than 10 lines of [...]

NUnit 2.2b1 is out

From the agiledotnet mailing list: From the announcement: This is the fourth major release of NUnit and the third since it was rewritten to take advantage of .NET custom attributes. Highlights of this release include support for Mono, multiple-test selection in the GUI interface, a built-in lightweight mock object facility, new command line switches for [...]

Mono slides

Miguel de Icaza points at some mono presentations… nice stuff!

QueryBuilder is out

The long awaited QueryBuilder tool is out. The QueryBuilder is a GUI tool to visually build SQL statements. Nice job Gianluca!Homepage: QueryBuilder HPSample screenshot: Select query with auto join

Atom.NET 0.4 release

I’ve released the 0.4 version of the library. It’s a big rework against the past version.See the website for more infos: http://atomnet.sourceforge.net

Uptime advice

I noticed that the snippet in the previous post doesn’t work correctly on Mono, because their implementation of Environment.TickCount is erroneous. The MS .NET implementation says that Environment.TickCount returns A 32-bit signed integer containing the amount of time in milliseconds that has passed since the last time the computer was started. but in the Mono [...]