The lowest level useful description of the goal of any software is probably best put as "elicit a positive emotional response
in a human".

2005 – DJ Mort

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File Attachment: sourcesafe_header.zip (550 bytes)

int[] ints = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 };

System.Random rand = new System.Random((int)DateTime.Now.Ticks);

Array.Sort(ints, delegate(int x, int y){

return rand.Next(-1,2);

Off course it was released the day after I built a new virtual machine for running the September CTP. Anyway, this release does support Visual Studio 2005 RTM, including the express editions.

Download here:

WinFX Runtime Components November CTP

SDK for WinFX Runtime Components November CTP

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows WorkFlow Foundation

Remember to remove all the old versions of WinFX, VS 2005 and .Net 2.0. Or start with a clean virtual machine.

The installation order is:

• WinFx CTP
• Visual Studio
• Windows WinFX SDK
• VS Extensions for WinFx
• VS Extension for Windows Workflow Foundation

From Rob Relyea’s install guide for the September CTP.

public static string GeneratePassword(int length) {

string allowedChars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@$?";

Random rnd = new Random( (int)DateTime.Now.Ticks );
            
char[] chars = new char[length];


for(int i = 0;i<length;i++) {
chars[i] = allowedChars[ rnd.Next( allowedChars.Length ) ];
}

return new string(chars);
}

When running in a tight loop, you're better of pulling the initialisation of the randomGenerator outside the method, or not use DateTime.Now.TickCount as the seed.

My highlights of the PDC 05:

• Linq and the associated C# 3.0 features
• IIS 7.0, plugable modules and xcopy deployment of configurations.
• Windows Workflow Foundation

Expect more indepth articles in the coming weeks, when I’ve had some time to experiment with everything.

I'm sure this will change a couple of times during the next week, but for now this is my schedule. If you can't make it, but would like to have my notes on a session, let me know (paul(dot)van(dot)brenk(at)tamtam(dot)nl).

Schedule for Paul van Brenk

The easiest way on sql server 2000 is to change the collation on the column you want to do the search on:

ALTER TABLE dbo.Customers ALTER COLUMN CustID char(8) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS NOT NULL