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Re: Soma, Carol Grojean, Jeff Beehler: Visual Studio 2008 RTM!!!

SecretSoftware — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:29:28 GMT

Thanks for Visual Studio 2008!!!!

I think MS was able to give us the most per-formant IDE since vs6 time.

Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks.

Can we get a showcase of all the new features?

The Visual Studio 2008 Week? to see the new innovations right from the devs?

I am so happy with Visual Studio 2008. Its really cool, Especially with the long awaited LINQ.

Hip hip hurray, Developer Division and MS.

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Re: Pat Brenner: New Updates to MFC in Visual Studio 2008

SecretSoftware — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:11:37 GMT

figuerres wrote:

SecretSoftware wrote:
Why does C++ even exist? Why does MS keeps maintaining such a language that caused so many buffer overflows, and generally was not as secure as C# or Vb.NET.

The only + point for C++ is that it compiles into machine code directly, and if we can get C# to do that, then there is no need for a language like C++.

I was wondering why C++ still exists when C# is that good of a language.

MS, why not retire C++, and just focus on C# and Vb.NET and F#?

Expand C# capabilities, and get rid of P/invoke and replace it with a new kind of mechanism to call dlls outside the .NET framework.

Finally, make the .NET framework really .NET, in the sense that it is distributed in terms of processing power, by enabling sharing. So that my application could use the processor that is Idle in a second room in the the house, automatically through the use of Remoting in LAN.

Kill C++, and lets all be on one page, with C#.

Its confusing many people, and things needs to be simpler, with few languages. C# for experts, VB.NET for beginners and intermediates.

That is all.

PS: some might say, there are programmers outthere who enjoy dealing with buffer overflows, and the pains of C++, and to them I say stick with Visual Studio 6 C++ IDE. and that is that.

WOW....

please do some resarch in to the topic.

like C and C++ are ANSI standards for a start, not owned by Microsoft or any other company.

and MSFT has provided new C Runtime libraries to help with buffer and memory problems.

and so on...

they can stop supporting it in future VS builds.

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Re: Pat Brenner: New Updates to MFC in Visual Studio 2008

SecretSoftware — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:10:13 GMT

John Melville, MD wrote:

SecretSoftware wrote:
Why does C++ even exist? Why does MS keeps maintaining such a language that caused so many buffer overflows, and generally was not as secure as C# or Vb.NET.

I'm hoping I just missed the sarcasm in that comment.

Even if we assume, as you seem to, that C++ is an obsolete and uselss language then there are still billions of lines of C++ code out there that work and do the job they were designed, and purchased, to do. There is absolutely no chance that all of that investmen is just going to vanish any time in the next several decades. C++ will be with us through the remainder of any of our careers and well beyond.

Since someone will be maintaining C++ code for the next 3 decades at least, Microsoft has, wisely, decided to make more money by selling modern tools to those developers.

PS: I still find C++ to be pretty useful in some circumstance. I'm just ingroning that for this post.

Let these people use VS 6 , it has C++ 6 and its good for them.

I Yearn for the day when Visual Studio will not have C++ in it anymore.

OSes will be using managed code in the future.

Games too.

So lets just slowly get rid of C++ and focus on C#.

C# is the future, and C++ brings back bad memories , of sleepless nights.

Customers who still use C++ should upgrade to C#. And that is that.

Any one who likes C++ should just stay with VS 6. or previous builds of vs.

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Re: Pat Brenner: New Updates to MFC in Visual Studio 2008

SecretSoftware — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:56:09 GMT

Why does C++ even exist? Why does MS keeps maintaining such a language that caused so many buffer overflows, and generally was not as secure as C# or Vb.NET.

The only + point for C++ is that it compiles into machine code directly, and if we can get C# to do that, then there is no need for a language like C++.

I was wondering why C++ still exists when C# is that good of a language.

MS, why not retire C++, and just focus on C# and Vb.NET and F#?

Expand C# capabilities, and get rid of P/invoke and replace it with a new kind of mechanism to call dlls outside the .NET framework.

Finally, make the .NET framework really .NET, in the sense that it is distributed in terms of processing power, by enabling sharing. So that my application could use the processor that is Idle in a second room in the the house, automatically through the use of Remoting in LAN.

Kill C++, and lets all be on one page, with C#.

Its confusing many people, and things needs to be simpler, with few languages. C# for experts, VB.NET for beginners and intermediates.

That is all.

PS: some might say, there are programmers outthere who enjoy dealing with buffer overflows, and the pains of C++, and to them I say stick with Visual Studio 6 C++ IDE. and that is that.

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Re: Visual Basic Intellisense Improvements in VS 2008

SecretSoftware — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:00:24 GMT

I liked the speed of the Intellisense, it makes development much fun.

However, I want intellisense to do more. I want there to be more information (from MSDN Libraries if installed). I wand this information to appear in the yellow tooltip that appears over classes when I hover over intellisense box items.

So when I do Dim X as String ( I wand to hover over string in the intellisense box and the tool tip box would have an expandable tree (clickable + sign "more information") that has more information from msdn library about the string class for example. This way I would have the information in my fingertip). so I can see the code comments and if i want more i can click the + sign and it can show me information about the string class from MSDN library in small font or even link to it. Also it would be better if when i click on the links the browser to browse the msdn library would be with in the IDE. (I hate to open too much development windows).

I used the string class as an example. There are some classes that I or others might have not worked with, and its a pain in the you know where, to have to open the MSDN explorer browser and sift through the informaiton. Its too much hassel. Its better to have information in your fingertips as you are coding.

Would this not be cool?

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Re: So long, Adam Kinney...

SecretSoftware — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:05:19 GMT

Well, its sad to see Adam go.

Good luck in your new team.

Perhaps we will see you again in Ch9 videos to tell us about Client side stuff. WPF/Win Forms/sliverlight..etc.

Its kind of shocking to see you leave C9 before the beta became gold , but..

I hope you remain as a member of C9. [A]

PS: Good to see Rory. Hope all is well:)

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Re: Erik Meijer: Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 1

SecretSoftware — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:58:10 GMT

When will Part 2 be up?

Thanks for the Interview.

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Re: Rick Rashid: Leading Microsoft into the Future with Research

SecretSoftware — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:55:46 GMT

Very Cool Interview.

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Re: John Morello: Designing Software Security Infrastructures for Large Systems

SecretSoftware — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:53:10 GMT

Certainly one of the cool videos in C9!

It touched on some questions I was wondering about in terms of Multi-Core and Cryptography.

The main problem here is that many of the crypto algorithms depend on the impracticality of factoring prime numbers in a meaningful time frame.

With the advent of Multi-Core architecture, this problem has become more manageable from a cracking point of view. Hence this represents a concern to many business owners, because they cannot sleep thinking their data/business/customers' private info are secure, because the computing power is certainly here.

The only solution is to develop newer cryptographic and stenographic algorithms, that does not depend on computing power at all. Rather it should depend on mathematical unknowns. Like the 3 unknown algorithms etc..

I believe there is a need for the development of the One Time Pad over PKIs, so it can be used securely in business platforms. Because only one time pad algorithm (Vernam's algorithm) does not depend on the processing power as a factor in the security of the algorithm.

One of the problems that many devs face is that you have to trust a 3rd party in the Public Key exchange scenario, and I managed to develop a secure way to exchange public keys without the need for 3rd party to be trusted. And I am working on optimizing this.

As a developer I feel that there should be more algorithms that depend on mathematical solvability problems rather than computing power impracticality as a function of time. Because as time goes on, we will get more powerful processors, and we are at a stage where we cannot afford to keep the algorithms that were developed in the 60s and 70s time frame.

On the whole, it was a very good channel9 video. Many thanks to Charles and many thanks to channel9.

PS: It would be good if we get more crypto videos and in general more security videos, because this topic is fascinating. I call cryptography and stenography the 7th wonder of the computing world.[A]

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Re: Windows "Longhorn" Server Beta 3 Ships!!!

SecretSoftware — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:19:55 GMT

This is exciting news. VS Orcas beta 1, and now Longhorn server beta 3.

MS just rocks!.

Very good and realistic video. The walk through the campus was really good! transparency cannot get any better than this!

Very good work Longhorn Server Team!

Congratulations!

Live Long, and Prosper \\//_.[A]

Can we get some screen shots of Beta 3?

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Re: Conversation with Soma: Orcas Beta 1 and Beyond

SecretSoftware — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:02:17 GMT

WoW. OMG!! OMG !! OMG !!

Is this real? Tell me its real!

I am feeling light headed already!

THIS IS EXCITING NEWS. Cant wait to download it and install it and use LINQ.

ITs always good news when you see SOMA!!!

Thanks Charles! As always you rock!.

Now where is that , Post button,,,, ah there.

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Re: Outstanding Technical Achievement: C# Team

SecretSoftware — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:55:17 GMT

Now if we get an update from the VB Team, this will be even more interesting.

Thanks for this, Charles. You Rock!

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Re: Connected: Windows Vista Networking Overview

SecretSoftware — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:38:16 GMT

Q: Detection of loss of connection. Is it improved? or do I still have to send the remote end point socket, a small packet to query if its still online and if it did not reply in say 1 min, then the client is lost?

In XP, sometimes you have to query the socket for data, and if you get an exception with error:10054 (?), then the remote end point was lost (cable was unpluged and the connection was reset exception) and then you had to handle that in your try catch.

How is it in Vista? Does the stack query remote socket to see if its till alive or not? even if the remote host has its cable unpluged (did not properly end connection)? Or same old same new again?

Thanks for the video.

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Re: Connected: Windows Vista Networking Overview

SecretSoftware — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:45:31 GMT

very cool. I have been looking for this video for some time .

Still watching it...

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Re: Anand Iyer - Life in the Field, Racism in the Tech Industry, and More...

SecretSoftware — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:28 GMT

The people who are racist against individuals because of the place they came from , or the religion they adhere to or the heritage they come from, should be dealt with firmly. This kind of low level racism needs to be cleaned from society.

Racism is real, and the people who commit it think they are better than everyone else, just because they think their race is better than other people's races.

Same thing with religion. People who defame other religions by attributing falsehoods to it. (like saying such and such religion is not peaceful or such and such God is .....) hurts people's feelings and it should not happen.

Not in a country like the USA, which was the lightening beacon for Justice and freedom and equality among all races, religions and sexes, for all other countries.

I want to thank you Rory for this video.

Best Regards,

SS

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Re: Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML

SecretSoftware — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:48:50 GMT

Very Cool. On ward!

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Re: Elissa Murphy: From Music to Microsoft

SecretSoftware — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:29:33 GMT

I think in the area of anti-virus and these things , Live products sucks compared to products from Kaspersky and Agnitum.

for some people its better than not having any protection. But if you can get the best why not go for the best in security and antivirus areas.

MS would do better if they buy companies like Kaspersky and Agnitum. This is because these companies have been there in the area of security and antivirus for years and have more experience. I would never exchange My Kaspersky Antivirus, antispam , anti malicious software for any thing else. And I am talking from experience here.

And because of this Alot of the live products except for hotmail and Windows live messenger, have been uninteresting to me to say the least.

The Heuristics algorithms study code sections, and its an intelligence level above just using signatures for viruses. Viruses mutate and new kinds emerge and Heuristics detects behaviors that the code will do if its executed, and if its doing things in the core of the OS that it should not, then this is to be stopped. Also programs that wants to add themselves to the windows startup part of the registry is flagged by heuristics analysis. Kaspersky Is a pro at this. And their detection rates are better than Windows Live Defender products.

So MS has to do alot to make it more attractive based on detection rates. Not just a solution that gives people a false sense of security online.

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Re: Sampy Gets Shot in the Face - A Channel 9 Exclusive

SecretSoftware — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:01:12 GMT

I envy Jesse Lewin.

LOL.

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Re: Branching 101 with Doug Neumann - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

SecretSoftware — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:56:34 GMT

Very nice.

Is it possible to get a video, in which all of the features of LINQ project is demoed on the whiteboard or in a notebook/pc.

Like how to query SQL (Stored procedures using Linq...etc..), and Access databases and other kinds of databases.

How to query registry values using linq, or in memory arrays, andquery XML, use Regx with Linq to select matching stuff.

Basically a demo of what is to come in Orcas.

This would be very cool too.

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Re: Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman: Software Composability and the Future of

SecretSoftware — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:23:19 GMT

footballism wrote:

Actually "weak delegate" is the thing which I hope can be built into CLR3.0

Sheva.

Agreed too.

THis video is very cool. The topics answer some good questions, although other stuff could have been answered there.

On the whole its a very good interview. (Now if we could have had the VB team there too (Amanda Silver and the others) it would have been even better.

I hope this gets repeated again, because its like a dream come true for alot of people including me, for all the lead devs in the languages discussing the future and the existing problems that devs face today and how to solve these.

I agree that Locks in threads are very limiting and this whole model must be gone and replaced with a new multi-threading sub-model, where things are faster without the problems surrounding locks.

Linq is I think the best thing that happened to .NET in quite a while, and its adoption in the .NET would make .NEt even more attractive. I am a big fan of Linq because it makes programming fun and more productive on the whole.

If we can only find a way to emplement a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with MSIL as it goes form dev machine to users machine to CLR, I would be a very happy .NET developer and I think alot of people who depend on .NET to develop would be happier too.

All I can say, keep the good stuff coming!

Onward!!!

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Re: Scott Guthrie - MIX07, Work, and Personal Details Revealed

SecretSoftware — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:08:12 GMT

Good Interview!

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Re: Technology Roundtable #1

SecretSoftware — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:14:22 GMT

Robert Hess is cool. This interview is cool.

Here are some ideas as to the things that I am interested in.

1) C# team heads, + VB.NET team heads, discussing future of the .NET framework, did it achieve or reach the potential it was made for? Areas of improvment, adoption expecations versus actual restults. Did it basically live up to its expectations. Also what will come in C# 4.0, and VB.NET next.

2) How Multi-Core processing will affect the way we write applications. In the past decades , most people were not dealing with multiple threads in their applications. How will this affect C# and .NET in general, and the programming model in particular, and how transactions will come to play here.

3) Future of cryptography: As we have more powerful processing powers, what are the new stuff that will make online experiance secure and private?

4) Windows Vista design challenges and unexpected bumps during development. Where does Windows stand on security now as compared to its previous versions. Also, what about the content protection technology, is this bad or good?

5) How will online experiance , the web , will evolve. What are new visions that MS has that will make the future more interesting than it is already.

6) Software Technology meeting Biological Genetics: Basically bioinformatics and how software will simplify understanding of biological function at the gene level. What MS is doing to improve this growing field.

It would be very interesting for me to at least get one of these topics talked about in the Technology roundtable with Mr. Hess.

PS: Its nice to see Channel9 going to the next level in terms of content.

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Re: Tara Roth: Not your father’s world of Software Test

SecretSoftware — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:53:48 GMT

Nice video. Its always nice to see you in the Videos Charles!
I think you should do that with all future videos;)

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Re: Geeking Out in Barcelona

SecretSoftware — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:18:28 GMT

I dont know who is who. Forgot the "Who Are you?" question?

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Re: Scott Field: How secure is Vista, really? - Part II

SecretSoftware — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:17:14 GMT

I just wanted to say , Patch guard, or the hyperviser, will only make crackers move up one level. They will use the APIs to the Kernel, and do what they want. in the same way the security vendors are using it, to do their, dirty work.

but if MS added heuristics to detect malicious software behavior, then this can be reduced by 60-70%.

hey being clothed is better than being naked. Prevista, the Kernel was naked, now, it has some clothes on.

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