Not Necessarily Dot Net - All Comments

re: VB.NET vs C#

KyleKelin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:34:37 GMT

One difference is VB.NET has XML Literals now and C# doesn't (The C# team intentional left that out). So you might starting seeing C# devs writing their xml parser or generator in VB.NET and consume that in C#.

re: Linq to SQL Designer Weirdness

CoreyRoth — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:29:10 GMT

You can always skip the designer and generate your domain objects yourself and just apply the LINQ to SQL attributes.

re: Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

Massimo — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:44 GMT

Hi James, about web2py. Almost everything runs except 1) you have no access to filesystem so you need to save sessions in db; 2) you can use the web2y ORM API on the GAE as long as there in equivalent statement in the GAE ORM. For example db(db.table.field=='value').select(db.table.ALL) works with any database backend, including GAE and you do not need to rewrite it but, for example, db((db.table.field=='value')|(db.table.field=='other')).select(db.table.ALL)

would not work on GAE because they do not support OR (doh!). This is not a web2py limitation, it is a google limitation and there is not much one can do about it until they improve their system.

re: Empty try/catch blocks

zenhipster — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:50:35 GMT

Perhaps your co-worker is only interested in seeing the exception while stepping through the code??? I'm not sure.

re: First post in ages

CoreyRoth — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:24:54 GMT

So far community server rocks for blogging but I wouldn't really say its a CMS.

re: First post in ages

TonyKilhoffer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:17:21 GMT

I wish I had an excuse as to why I haven't posted in a while. Maybe I'll borrow yours?