Emacs Keybindings in VS.NET 2k5
Just discovered that VS.NET 2k5 has a preset under Keyboard mapping scheme's for Emacs... Yay! It only remaps things that exist to Emacs commands, i.e. you don't get a killring on Ctrl-Y, but it's something.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
VS.NET 2003 to 2005
I recently started playing with VS.NET 2005 Beta 2, mostly because I wanted to see the Class Designer in action. The first, pleasant surprise was that it co-exists peacefully with VS.NET 2003. I was afraid i might hose my daily dev environment with this experiment, but it seems to be ok. Haven't tried ASP.NET yet, since the switch, but i hear that IIS is the one bone of contention with peaceful co-existence.
But enough about the pleasantries. Converting some work projects, i came across a C# language change that I'm not sure is a change or a fix for a bug. Either way it makes me change my code...
namespace ConsoleTester { public class Base { protected Base() { } protected Base(string x) { } } public class Child : Base { private Child() { } public Base MakeBase() { return new Base("foo"); } } }
This works in C# 1.0, but in C# 2.0 i get Cannot access protected member 'ConsoleTester.Base.Base()' via a qualifier of type 'ConsoleTester.Base'; the qualifier must be of type 'ConsoleTester.Child' (or derived from it). So is this a change in the spec, a bug in 1.0 or a bug in 2.0?
Monday, September 19, 2005
The new math.. er--trig
A friend of mine just pointed out DIVINE PROPORTIONS: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry. Having had to refresh my Trig understanding for a number of recent projects (basically any time graphics are involved), I like the concept of getting rid of sin, cos, etc. in favor of simpler rational math.
But what's even more interesting about Divine Proportions are its implications for graphics processing. Being able to get rid Trig functions in 3D calculations and replace them with simple squares and fractions should allow some significant speed increases in processing. Curious how this plays out.