SBC DotNet Weblog

APress has released Alexander Golomshtok's .NET System Management Services. Another book in the WMI field is Tunstall & Cole's Developing WMI Solutions. All timely - one has to manage all those runaway distributed objects. I would love to see a WMI agent on one of my favorite software nodes.

Some fun stuff from the author of BoundsChecker - the tool that saved me many long nights during my Win32 days. Thanks for this and that.

Very interesting article in CodeProject - 'A statistical analysis of the performance variations of assorted managed and unmanaged languages'. Interesting title with a good attempt. Particularly note the followups from Bill McCarthy regarding configuration settings. I took a cursory look at it - my concern is with the instrumentation itself, i.e. use of QueryPerformanceCounter for measurements. QPC makes several I/O port calls and this value then needs to be normalized. All this may mar the logging -  like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. I will have to look more in depth into this experiment to feel more conclusive.

WinSuperSite has some screenshots of  Longhorn Alpha Preview 3: Build 4015. Neat: the Carousel view of the relationships within 'My Contacts'  library - a better graphical representation of 'FOAF'.

Spring '03 issue of 2600 describes a security bug fix of IBuySpy. Mixed feelings on that one.

First, my thanks to Sam Gentile for providing more trails to MC++ info. This note is more of a preamble to MC++ conversion and why MC++ is here to stay. The reality is that MS does cater a lot for their enterprise customers (wait till 'Yukon' gets here). The enterprise market (aka corporate) contains former UNIX customers who are moving into the MS .NET world and they bring with them hundreds of millions lines of C++ code. MS is making major inroads in the enterprise market ergo we will be seeing more C++ code. Development code contains libraries  that are not easily converted - these may range from business logic, data structures & algorithms right down to utility and communications.

From Sam Gentile's article on MC++ at OReilly -  "the C++ compiler performs some optimization on the IL it produces, resulting in code that performs better than code generated from the C# or VB.NET compilers. "