Matt Croydon::Postneo

Category: .NET

  • NVIDIA releases Cg Compiler 1.0

    [H]:

    NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced the availability of the NVIDIA Cg Compiler version 1.0. The NVIDIA® Cg Compiler is designed to generate real-time shaders from the high level shading language syntax developed by NVIDIA. The Cg Compiler version 1.0 is compatible with Microsoft DirectX® 9.0, released earlier today. NVIDIA’s Cg Compiler generates code for both DirectX and OpenGL® platforms and is compatible with any graphics processing unit (GPU) that is OpenGL 1.4 (or higher) or DirectX 8.0 (or higher) compliant.

    I’ve heard mixed things about Cg.  Some people think that it might change the world, other poeple think that it’s not quite right.  Time will tell.

  • DirectX 9.0, .NET Baked In

    Chris Sells, among others, has pointed out the release of DirectX 9.0:

    DirectX 9.0 Release with .NET Support

    I’m not much of a graphics programmer, but I know folks have been anxiously awaiting DX9, which includes MDX (Managed DirectX) the managed API to DirectX for .NET programmers. This release provides a bunch of non-.NET enhancements as well.

  • Virtual PC

    Greg Reinacker likes what he sees in the Virtual PC specs:

    Among other things, what an awesome tool to test application installations.  I can create an image with, say, Windows .NET Server, and save it.  I can then start this OS, run my installation package, see how it went, and undo the whole thing automatically to restore the previous image.  Instantly.

  • Managed Pointers

    Thomas Restrepo asks the question:

     What would managed pointers pointing to unmanaged memory be useful for?

    I believe the answer is 42.

  • Multiple ResultSets in ADO.NET

    ONDotnet:

    Most Web Forms applications need to load multiple pieces of data, usually to load up comboboxes or listboxes. Many times we end up querying the database again and again for different lookup table data, and this reduces scalability and adds more stress to the backend database.

  • Codename: Dashboard

    Codename: Dashboard Beta 4.5 is out.  It is built on the .NET framework and looks like it provides a nice “at-a-glance” of some potentially important stuff.  It looks like it supports news feeds, as there are some screenshots of a feed from The Register.  I’m not sure if it uses RSS or scrapes the sites (I hope the former), but it looks like it has potential. [via BetaNews]

  • Traffic

    Whoa.  This weblog has generated over a gigabyte of traffic so far this week, and it’s not over yet.  I’ll try to post some stats tomorrow, and if this keeps up I’ll probably have to start paying more a month for web hosting.  Dave’s link and my javablog channel have both contributed to the rise in traffic.

    Welcome to my weblog if you’ve just started reading.

  • Cruise Control .NET

    Cruise Control:

    CruiseControl.NET is a functional port of CruiseControl to the .NET platform. CruiseControl.NET provides the benefits of Continuous Integration to .NET projects.

    [via Joe Walnes]

  • Categories!

    I’ve finally taken the plunge and enabled catagories in Radio.  I’ll be notifying javablogs soon!

  • MSFT

    Reuters/Yahoo: Is Microsoft going to buy Rational and/or Borland? [via JDJ]

    Two arbitrage traders said that there had been speculation that Microsoft, which had been rumored to be interested in buying Rational before IBM closed the deal, would step back into the race.

    […]

    Borland Chief Executive Dale Fuller declined to comment on whether any deal with Microsoft was in the cards, but he added that he would consider offers.

    It looks like it’s all speculation.  I’ll probably just leave it at that.