Microsoft’s C# programming language sometimes reminds me of a pinata – it is full of surprises. The latest one comes in the form of the two delegate definitons below:
//DELEGATES
public delegate void doneSearchingDlg();
public delegate void newResultDumbDlg();
doneSearchingDlg doneSearching;
newResultDumbDlg newResultDumb;
In case anybody is new to C#: a delegate is a function pointer which can accumulate multiple functions, which are then all called at once with a single call. But this is not the reason for this little rant – instead, I am pissed about why the declarations cannot look like this:
//DELEGATES - CAN NOT COMPILE AS OF VS2005
public delegate void doneSearchingDlg() doneSearching;
public delegate void newResultDumbDlg() newResultDumb;
In plain-old vanilla C, almost every language primitive can be animated while it is being declared – why this feature was omitted from Delegates is a mystery to me.
Ideas, anyone?
Microsoft France’s product manager for all things mobile has made a very interesting quote in a recent 
Seth Godin is the man behind a very interesting marketing blog, a bunch of top-selling business books and – last but not least – the concept of permission marketing. I thus was somewhat surprised to see him talk about graphics design…but felt that his list could be useful nevertheless.
So far, Windows Mobile developers didn’t have to bother too much about getting their applications through a certification process…this particular and very annoying bit of work was – so far – limited to Symbian applications targeting S60.
The .NET CF was originally intended to be highly portable: unfortunately no implementations were made available except for the various breeds of Windows Mobile.