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I am so glad I haven't invested gobs of time learning this stuff.
WPF is mature
Uh...Sort of like my jar of moldy pickles in the fridge? I could come with some more graphic images of "mature", but I'll spare you. From the little I've dabbled with WPF, a not insignificant portion of time is spent working around WPF's shortcomings.
Marc
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Tried it and it's a no.
There's too many wtf's in there. It is really great if you want animations and bells and sh*t and feel the need to "design" every page. It is not an efficient replacement for WinForms. An alternative, mayhaps, for some, but not a replacement.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One area of conversation that tends to come about in software engineering is the degree to which one takes their code personally. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous code review...
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It's our code, but they're my bugs. 
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Wise words, indeed. 
/ravi
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It's our code, but they're my bugs.
I'm willing to team up with you, and share code.
The bugs are still all yours, yes?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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History has shown that to be the case.
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Never let it be said that I'm unwilling to learn from history.
I'll compile a batch of bug numbers for you ad CoB today.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft is just about to unveil their next major operating system, and with improvements to Windows Update being one of the main factors with this release, it does raise the question as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to change the way Windows is updated. Well, according to a new job listing from Microsoft, the company is "creating a new system that will fundamentally change the way Windows is shipping to put the ecosystem at the center of Windows." No more DVDs! Now it will ship psychically!
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As today you can download and install a large group of updates/fixes before restarting Windows, in the future you will have to restart it after each one 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Remember when they told us that we'd never have to reboot after patching again (I think it was around XP)?
Yeah. Good times. 
TTFN - Kent
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Wait, what? People still use DVDs to install Windows?  
I guess my last Windows DVD was Vista, and it wasn't even a retail original but the burn-it-yourself recovery image from some HP laptop. The last real Windows retail package in my possession was Windows XP Professional RTM, and that came on CD! Kind of reminds me like the world changes: In 1996, it was an amazing experience to install Windows 95 from a CD instead of a stack of 3.5" floppies. Then in 2000, when Windows 2000 came out, you could even boot it from CD if your BIOS supported it, but one time I remember I even used the four floppies in the box just for fun to boot it up. XP didn't even ship with any floppies anymore. Today, I installed every Windows version since 7 from an USB stick.
Now, what else can they do to improve it? Deliver it directly over the web using some WinPE environment? No, thanks. Too much traffic to download all that stuff every other time.
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When teams abandons an Object-Relational Mapper, ORM, because they think it doesn’t perform well or adds too much magic, then it is often due to bad usage Jimmy Bogard states in a recent presentation highlighting what he sees as correct and incorrect ways of using an ORM, including mapping and querying problems. Or, as some would write it, "You are using the ORM. Wrong way."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You are using the ORM. Wrong way."
You are correct, sir. 
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On the other hand, hand assembling SQL in code is like digging a ditch with your nose - unnecessary, painful and slow.
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Forward or backward?
TTFN - Kent
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Reciprocating back and forward - I'm not a complete idiot!
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He may have a point, but jesus the guy should take a course on how to write.
When a columnist makes that many grammar mistakes, I lose all confidence in their attention to detail.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A while back, I interviewed several Microsoft executives to get their take on how to think like an effective executive. "But what would happen, if for some reason we ignore, somebody unlocked 100% of the cerebral capacity?"
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Bug enables malicious sites to grab cookies, passwords from other sites. It's been a while since I posted an Android security scare
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Both of the people who actually use the android browser could be in trouble, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Prior to today, if you were a developer of Windows and Windows Phone apps, you had to pay an annual fee to keep your account active and to be able to submit apps to the various stores. Well, it looks like Microsoft has now decided to drop the annual charge. Before you get excited: MSDN subscriptions are still an arm and/or a leg
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We love hearing from developers that the virtual machines, tools and offers available on modern.IE are valuable to them, save them time and help make testing on Internet Explorer a little easier. That’s why we’re excited to let you know about a few new offerings we’re making available due to developer demand. For all your real virtual needs
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The Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) project is pleased to announce the general availability of its first release – WinJS 3.0 – since the open source project began at //BUILD 2014. "It is over. The world of men shall fall. All will come to darkness."
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As Windows and/or JavaScript are not bad enough alone!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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