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Joe Nalewabau discusses TechEd 2004
Visit his blog and offer some feedback if you want to influence his presentation... TechEd 2004 (May...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/23/2004
Going back a bit... Rick Spencer talks about the Usability of Generics...
I've been thinking a bit about Generics lately, with the growing conclusion that I will mostly use...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/21/2004
Generic Methods...
Someone suggested to me that VB.NET Whidbey didn't have support for 'Generic Methods', so I quickly...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/19/2004
Paul Vick, Language Designer on the VB team, discusses arrays with non-zero lower bounds...
One of the changes from VB6 to VB.NET was the removal of non-zero lower bounded arrays... a concept...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/19/2004
Weird Gathering of MSDNers at theme parks...
Chris just got back from Disney, Sea World, etc... Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/18/2004
Tried the "new" Napster tonight...
Hmm... pretty cool so far, guess I'll see when I decide to start moving music around to my MCE box,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/17/2004
Two new additions to my blog home page...
You may never see the actual web interface to my blog, but if you do you'll see two new graphics...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/17/2004
Eric Gunnerson just keep pumping out the cool posts...
If you follow Eric's blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you'll have already seen...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/16/2004
Interested in learning more about Visual Studio Tools for Office?
Over in the Office side of the world, a set of 6 labs have been released, focused on learning how to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/16/2004
Wow, a huge FAQ for System.Web.Mail...
From Dave Wanta, the guy behind kbalertz.com, a detailed FAQ for the SMTP mail classes in the .NET...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/15/2004
There's nothing like a nice control to make development easier...
I'm just playing around with an internal application, just a tool that hits our internal web...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/14/2004
Shaykat's Visual Studio 2003 Tips
Shaykat, a PM on the C# Team, has been posting some great tips on VS.NET 2003 so I thought I would...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/14/2004
Team Chat on Unit Testing coming up next Thursday (3/18)
A few team members have blogged about this already, but here I go again... Unit testing is a method...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/13/2004
Some cool controls from DarthPedro
Ok... so I'm biased here, Pedro used to be my grand-boss at MSDN, and now works on some very cool...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/12/2004
hey... want to come work at MSDN?
Turns out we (MSDN) are looking for a few good testers to come and work with us in Redmond... if you...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/12/2004
"Blogs from the C# Team" page now up... enjoy!
This page lists all of the C# team blogs (that I am aware of) and provides you with a list of...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/11/2004
The eagerly awaited Part 5 of Scott Mitchell's Data Structure series is now live
Check it out here In this fifth installment of the article series we're going to examine graphs....
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/11/2004
Have you seen Joe Hummel's webcasts yet?
Well, if you haven't managed to see any of them live yet... don't fret, they are all available...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/11/2004
Debugging Guide now available
Min Kwan Park, who works in QA on the C# team (responsible for debugger features) has compiled an...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/10/2004
Anson Horton starts his blog with talk of Intellisense
Anson, a PM on the IDE team of C#, discusses the different ways that Intellisense is used and the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/10/2004
C# Team Blogs as OPML
Gus Perez has been maintaining an up-to-date list of C# team blogs, but after carefully duplicating...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/09/2004
Neat little utility (with C# source) that copies and pastes files from the command line
Gus Perez has posted the binary and source for a little utlity he has dubbed "ezClip"; Back in the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/08/2004
Matt Warren on Language Design
Matt provides us with some insights into the world of language design, a field that most of us have...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/08/2004
New MSDE Articles Available
Brian Randell has written 4 (really 7, but 3 of them are just the same article as both VB and C#)...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/08/2004
Scott Nonnenberg dishes on Visualizers in Whidbey
Scott goes into detail on the cool "Visualizers" feature of the Whidbey debugger in his post...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/08/2004
Grant Richins discusses Anonymous Methods
Grant starts on what appears to be a series of posts about a new C# language feature, with...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/08/2004
Gregg Miskelly on Debugging Interop Issues
Gregg discusses "Why interop debugging is difficult"... The Visual Studio debugger supports...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/07/2004
The CSharp Team has a "Frequently Asked Question" Blog...
Click here to see the first post, which is a request for some questions!!
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/06/2004
Looking to write for MSDN?
Someone recently asked me for our template, style guidelines and other details about writing for...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/04/2004
Frequently Asked Questions, or Frequently Requested Code (FRC?)
Hey folks.... I've been thinking (dangerous, I know) and I've decided that you need to see more...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/03/2004
Paul Vick on two new operators in VB Whidbey
In a recent post to his blog, Paul Vick discusses the new IsNot Operator (and the history/rational...
Author: Duncanma Date: 03/02/2004
Code Project just continues to amaze...
I love the recently posted "Enhanced BrowseForFolder styled TreeView" (a C# control by Jerry...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/26/2004
A chapter from my KickStart VB.NET book is up on Code Project
Hmm... I had no idea it was going up, but there it is... Click to read Chapter 3: Building Windows...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/26/2004
MSDN TV episode on the IDE enhancements in C# Whidbey
Dan Fernandez presents how Visual C# “Whidbey” will include several IDE enhancements...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/25/2004
ASP.NET Resource Kit now available
This bit of news is getting quite a bit of airplay, so you've likely heard already, but the ASP.NET...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/25/2004
Oh geez... now I'm all hot and bothered
Writing my last post started me thinking about the C64... and I found this page detailing software...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/20/2004
Broderbund Software... and C#
This is so cool, even if you might take it as mostly marketing (sorry in advance)... Having spent...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/20/2004
Great article on the DataGrid control posted on CodeProject
Provides a great introduction to creating your own custom columns and column styles.... including a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/20/2004
12 free sample training modules about .NET
Free sample modules available from the following training courses... Programming with C# Developing...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/20/2004
Just playing with Generics in Visual Basic Whidbey
My simple class:Public Class Customer Dim m_CustomerName As String Dim m_CustomerID As Integer...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/19/2004
Joel's doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)
Joel Semeniuk, (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/19/2004
Ninja Gaiden, where art thou Ninja Gaiden
While I did manage to find some really nice desktop backgrounds at...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/18/2004
Robert Green's VB Blog
Robert Green, a PM on the Visual Basic team, has recently started up a blog... and he already has...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/18/2004
C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet
A new sample was posted recently by Joel Pobar (a Program Manager in the CLR team)C# command line...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/18/2004
Finally, the good ones coming to DVD
"By the way, you might want to send a Valentine to George Lucas. His first "Star Wars" trilogy is...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/13/2004
Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those...
Actually, I've always wanted to mimic something simpler, just the error message and a more button to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/13/2004
New installment in Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures
Part 3: Binary Trees and BSTs This article, the third in a six-part series on data structures in the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/10/2004