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Eric moves on...

Eric has decided to try something new after what I believe has been close to 10 years of compiler...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 08/12/2004

I can now type freely...ahhh.

I installed XP SP2 RC2 a little over a week or so ago. The greatest thing happened as a result...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 07/23/2004

Folklore.org

Somehow I came across the Folklore site which has a bunch of interesting early-Apple stories...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 07/02/2004

I'm behind...

The last few weeks have been the definition of busy for me. Getting beta 1 out the door hasn't...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/30/2004

Native -> Managed?

Today, I was asked for performance data comparing between C++ and C#. The reason they ask is the...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/30/2004

VS Editor team blog

My wife and other members of the VS editor team are now blogging. If you use VS, you might end up...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/21/2004

Mgmt Training at Mt. Si

I've been shacked up at the Rainbow Lodge Retreat with about twenty-something other MS managers this...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 06/10/2004

Santosh has a first post...

Another member of the C# compiler QA team has started blogging recently. Santosh is a very...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/28/2004

Power-save and me just don't get along

I've got a Samsung Syncmaster 213T flat panel display at home. I love it except for how power save...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/27/2004

Update

I haven't posted in a while so I figured I'd post a quick update on what's been going on (work and...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/27/2004

Cyrus blogs...

Cyrus is a developer on the C# IDE team and he's recently started blogging. In almost two days, he's...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 05/16/2004

C# response files

Over time I've answered, and I'm sure lots of other guys on the team have as well, a question along...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/29/2004

Keeping docs in Word and not in the browser

Today, I had one of those moments of minor frustration where a 'feature' bugged me. So I tried to...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/28/2004

Grant moves upstairs

Grant has been my next-(office)door neighbor for a long time now. But tomorrow it comes to an end as...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/22/2004

Random fun fact: Lines of code in our C# compiler test suite

For some reason, that I don't remember now actually, one of the guys on my team had to write a quick...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/22/2004

Got bugs?

“Any idea how many bugs may still be in the product?” A question I've been asked and...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/18/2004

New laptop is up and running

Got my new laptop today around 3pm. After spending ~2-3 hours, it's all ready to go. Got all the...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/16/2004

Busy, busy, busy

It's been almost a month since my last real post. Posts about ubercool bulldogs and mice (the furry...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/16/2004

Skateboarding Bulldog

Far from work-related, but a good break from it, check out the skateboarding bulldog. Be sure to...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 04/12/2004

C# Compiler warnings

I wrote the code snippet tool using Everett (VS7.1). At one point, I struggled for a bit with a typo...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/23/2004

Snippy - C# Code Snippet Editor

Update (1/31/08): It looks like Snippy has now found a home on CodePlex. I haven't been maintaining...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/22/2004

Snippy - A C# code snippet editor

I made it my weekend project to hack up an editor for code snippet files. If you don't know what...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/21/2004

The Disclaimer

Each post is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/20/2004

Setting up remote debugging under XP SP2

Check out this page for detailed steps on how to get remote debugging working after you've upgraded...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/19/2004

Unused referenced assemblies don't actually stick around

Thanks to all who joined us in the C# & Unit Testing chat today. It was fun and we'll try to do...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/18/2004

Uptime 2000 - Displays system's uptime transparently on your desktop

Features:A tiny Win32 application (C++) that displays the system's up-time either in a small...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/18/2004

Uptime 2000 - Tool to display your system uptime transparently on your desktop

I'm posting an old utility I wrote back in 2001 that displays your system's uptime transparently on...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/17/2004

Measuring test effectiveness

You can find the post here.

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/17/2004

RightSideUp - Automatically rotates images based on EXIF data

Update (1/3/06): Find the latest info on RightSideUp on my main blog from now on. A .NET application...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/13/2004

Two more C# apps added: RightSideUp and Space Invaders

I've moved over a couple more of the apps from my old site that I've hacked up over time....

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004

Space Invaders - Another clone of the classic game

A .NET version of the classic game. It's all written in C# and uses GDI+ (not DirectX) for graphics....

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004

My Software Projects

Below is a list of C# (mostly) applications I've written over time. They're all free, so do as you...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004

C# and unit testing chat next Thursday (3/18)

Scott's post reminded me of the upcoming chat I got an invite for a few days ago. It's happening...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/12/2004

Wordy v1.01

My vocabulary consists of about 100 words in total (and that includes not-quite-words such as...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/10/2004

Wordy - Quick dictionary access via system tray

Another C# app I wrote ages ago that I still use on every single one of the machines I use. Wordy...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/10/2004

Anson's blogging...

Anson used to be the C# Compiler PM and has now been working on the Visual C# IDE team for a while....

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/09/2004

ezClip v1.02

Back in the 7.0 days I wrote a little tool called ezClip. It's sole purpose was to allow me to...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/08/2004

ezClip - Command-line clipboard utility

This is a tiny C# application I wrote a while back that allows you to copy/paste files via the...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/08/2004

C# Team Bloggers

The list of C# team bloggers is now being maintained by Charlie Calvert. You can see his (much more...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

Migrated some entries from the old blog...

I've moved over a few of the recent entries I made on the old blog as I plan on posting follow-ups...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

Stochastic (aka Random) Testing

Paul Dietz commented on one of my posts about testing the compiler asking whether we do any "random...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

Inline Warning Control

There has been plenty of talk on four of the bigger new features in the C# compiler/language:...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

Testing the C# Compiler #2

Lots of questions were sent my way after the last post about testing the compiler. A lot of them can...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

Testing the C# Compiler #1

One of my intentions when I first started this blog was to focus some on software testing in general...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

My acting debut

Yesterday marked the first, and quite possibly last, acting job (unpaid) I've ever had. A friend of...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

My Intro

A friend just pointed out to me that I should probably write up a quick intro post since the people...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

I've decided. I'm making the move...

Goodbye Movable Type, hello .Text (and Scott). My old blog will be stopped after my next post to it...

Author: Gus Perez (MS) Date: 03/07/2004

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