"In his remarkable new book, Stephen Wolfram asserts that cellular automata operations underlie much of the real world. He even asserts that the entire Universe itself is a big cellular-automaton computer. But Ray Kurzweil challenges the ability of these ideas to fully explain the complexities of life, intelligence, and physical phenomena."

“Npgsql .Net Data Provider for PostgreSQL. It is written entirely in C#. This data provider supports the version 2.0 of PostgreSQL protocol.

“It is in a very early stage. For now, just the connect/disconnect functionality is working. It parses and validate the connection string and makes the connection.

“Any help, suggestion, recommendation is welcome.”

"With over 9,000 files, and including some 1300 public classes to pore through, the Shared Source CLI can teach you quite a bit about the internal workings of the CLR. But the sheer amount of source code included can make just starting your exploration a monumental task. This article discusses some of the things you can learn from the source code facsimile of the CLR, like how JIT compilation works. It will also help you understand how to control execution along with debugging and loading classes. A walk through the steps involved in setting up the runtime will let you become familiar with the process."

First, the poem itself (there are many versions, this is just one):

<> ! * ′ ′ #
^ ” ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * <> ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , system halted

In English, this reads:

waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
bang splat equal at dollar under-score
percent splat waka waka tilda number four
ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma crash

Serdar Kilic
win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com
Sat 5/18/2002 6:32 PM

"C# allows developers to embed XML comments into their source files—a useful facility, especially when more than one programmer is working on the same code. The C# parser can expand these XML tags to provide additional information and export them to an external document for further processing. This article shows how to use XML comments and explains the relevant tags. The author demonstrates how to set up your project to export your XML comments into convenient documentation for the benefit of other developers. He also shows how to use comments to generate help files. "

Dino expounds on a subject near and dear to my heart -- databinding in WinForms.

XsdClassesGen is a Custom Tool Add-In to VS.NET 2002 & 2003 to generate type-safe wrapper classes for serializing to and from XML documents. It takes as input an XSD and produces the C# or VB.NET code to do the serialization using the XmlSerializer. This is really just the output of running xsd.exe /classes, but integrated directly into VS.NET.

If you’d like to know more about what a custom tool is and how to build your own, check out CollectionGen.

Also, Atif Aziz used some of my custom tool code and built a generic VS.NET code generator shim that allows you to build a code generator that plugs into VS.NET by implementing a single method.

And, as if that weren’t enough, Stephane Tombeur has posted the code to VS2005. Thanks, Stephane!

From Razvan Caciula: Nick Hodapp publishes an interesting ActiveX Control Library (ATL) giving you the permission to include it in a commercial application. Cool work, Nick :)