Senthil Kumar's Blog

Skype is a software that allows users to make voice , video calls or sent text messages over internet.

I never realised that the application that i use ( skype ) was developed using Delphi . I found this information in the following links

Good Quality Applications Built with Delphi
Skype Shop
Here is the further information on the skype .

Recently , i was in discussion with My manager as well the client in moving an application from Delphi to .NET ( Visual Studio 2010 ) and thought myself Which one is Better?? and was struck up with no clear answer.

Here’s i compare two technologies ( Not Technically but just about what i feel ) and this is just my opinion and others might well disagree with me too . Here we go .

Anders Hejlsberg was involved in C# and for Delphi too and this puts me in a quetion on there might be similarities too …

C# / .NET

C# is a simple and very well defined language .
Its from Microsoft and .NET is the future for Development on the Microsoft Platform.
Visual Studio’s Code Editor and the Options of the Extensions / Addons to the IDE brings me more functions to be brought together in single IDE / Place especially Code Compare too and Data Compare tool etc
Excellent Community Support for .NET . Check the following sites

I read an article in one of the the popular site, The Register on Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels
The article states that the Exam Board ( Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance ) will withdraw C# ,C and PHP from the syllabus of A-level computer science programme following the low intake of the above programming languages .
The pdf document in the article also states that

The Microsoft’s ADO.NET team has released the latest Entity Framework Feature CTP,which is now available for Download from the Microsoft’s Download center . Remember that Entity Framework 4 was released together with Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010

The new CTP is called as Entity Framework Feature CTP 4 that includes the early preview of the Code First features.

Mono Touch is a .NET Libary which allows the C# developers to write code in .NET and that runs on IPhone OS .The iPhone Development now offers the hot opportunity for .NET developers too.

MonoTouch offers the .NET developers to create Apple iPhone and iPad applications.

Seems like one doesn’t need to learn the Objective-C , the native language for iPhone to master Mono Touch .:-)

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The Local Type Inference is also called as Implicitly Types Local Variables in C# and is an easy way to create a variable without having to know the type.
This is especially useful when using a LINQ via the var keyword .
The var keyword only works with the local scope , you cannot return or reference a variable created with the var ouside the scope of the local method.

This blog post gives an introduction to the different versions of Windows Mobile and small code snippet in C# / .NET Compact Framework to find the version of the Operating system.

Windows Mobile is a microsoft’s mobile operating system designed for smartphone and mobile devices .

Windows Mobile is a platform for running applications on mobile devices built on top of WINCE 5.0 .

There are 3-different platforms available

Windows mobile standard targetting the the Non touchscreen devices .

Windows Mobile Professional targetting the touch screen devices .

Windows Mobile Classic – Similar to Windows Mobile Professional but without the phone functionalities.

Every year, I make a resolution and the time of the year is back again for me to look back and evaluate what I’ve done well, what I missed, and what I need to change to make 2010 even better than 2009.