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Visual Studio 2005 Application Settings Oddities

While watching the MSDN Nugget on Application Settings in Visual Studio 2005, I found a couple of things I found weird about the default application settings provider, LocalFileSettingsProvider:… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress.

Should Humans Be Called Ape2?

Ever since Kathy Kam announced on her weblog that a new type named TimeZone2 will be introduced into the Orcas release of .NET, the community has been in an uproar, claiming the new name is horrible and that we’re going back to the days of Win32 and COM with types like TimeZone3 and DateTimeEx not far down the line…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

Generic Type Variance in C# and the CLR

Andrew Stopford has an interesting couple of posts on the CLR’s support for generic type variance[1] in version 2.0, and the lack of which in C# 2.0. I join Andrew in wishing this would be implemented in C# 3.0 (or at least in an interim ‘2.1’ release with .NET 3.0)…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.