Rev’s Thought Dump

Came across this article on Digg.

Looks pretty interesting, though they don’t apparently mention C# specifically. When oh when will the power of C# be fully recognized?!

Though a little more broad than the kind of articles that used to appear on Managed World, it makes me wish that Jason would get back to doing what his site was setup for – game development in managed code articles. But I fear he has fallen prey to World of Warcaft.

Speaking of gaming worlds. I was reading a copy of the latest MSDN Magazine – we get them at work – and I found 1 article that was actually interesting. It covered System.CodeDOM and how to use it to dynamically generate code, compile it, and then call it from the same app. While this is nothing new – I believe Eric actually wrote an app that generates form code for you with CodeDOM – it’s something I haven’t looked into. Two applications that come to mind: genetic programming and learning machines and secondly it would be perfect for my passion of having a game world you could edit/create from inside the game.

Have the user create an object ( or edit one ) edit the code and then recompile the object and re Activate it. Now I realize there are LOADS of potential security issues but this is a step in the right direction in my totally scattered and muttled thinkings about it. Perhaps you could have them only edit methods in an inherited object. *shrug* Anywho. It peaked my interest in the dynamic game world again.

And… speaking of MSDN magazine, I was reading through the Q&A section and noticed that all questions were answered in the form of a Visual Studio 2005 sales pitch. i.e., “How do I get this to work in C#?” “Well, you could do it in .Net 1.1. But here’s how you do it in .Net 2.0!” or “In Visual Studio 2005 you’d go to this menu item.”. I mean, I understand you’ve got a new product and you want to upsell. But now it’s no longer really a reference for .Net 1.1 VStudio 2k3 work.

I know it’s not a total waste for .Net 1.1 devs but a lot of things aren’t going to help folks whose development house isn’t going to want to switch to a framework that’s only been out a month or so. I just find it silly is all.