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7/17/2020

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Uh-oh, it's google

So now I have GMail, the Google Toolbar, the Google Deskbar, and the Google Desktop. To search MSDN...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2004

Google for MSDN help

When I want to look up an API in the .Net Frameworks, or read about some language construct, I look...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2004

Come work on C#

I wanted to post a short note about all the different job opportunities available today in C#. We...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/30/2004

Safely firing an event, Part 3

Take another look at Safely firing an event. According to Grant, there’s another issue here. The...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2004

Won't Fix or Postponed?

In our bug database, when resolving a bug, you have to select a “Resolution”. Obviously you can...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2004

Separating out unit tests

This question came up on a customer chat today. It’s probably interesting to a wider audience, so...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/09/2004

C# Editor at a conference?

Back in da day, I used to go to VC/VS themed conferences and talk about the debugger. Even though I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/05/2004

A Factory pattern

The idea popped in to my head, so I wrote it down. I’m not sure what it’s good for, but here it is:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/01/2004

A blog break

Earlier I talked about the challenges of shipping software. You want Whidbey, and we want to give it...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/01/2004

A man talking sense to him self...

...is no less sane than a man talking nonsense, not to himself. The full text of the previous...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/01/2004

More on autocomplete

Related to the questions around TAB and ENTER are some questions around the new “autocomplete on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2004

TAB TAB TAB

We're going back and forth on a rather narrow design issue in IntelliSense. Suppose you're writing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2004

How do you ship software?

I surely don't need to tell you that we've been working on Whidbey for a while now. You probably...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2004

Refactoring the C# Express Starter Kit – Part 2: Organizing fields

Looking in RssView, I see a big mess. There are lots of fields. Some are related to each other &...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2004

Some good feedback on the Range post.

Dithermaster says “it's much easier to find out of they DON'T overlap” and proposes: ! ( (end2...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/20/2004

Refactoring the C# Express Starter Kit

Yesterday I decided to take a look at the code we shipping in the Beta 1 C# Express SKU for a screen...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/19/2004

Comparing ranges

Ryan Farley talks about comparing date ranges. In his post is this phrase “First range represented...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/19/2004

Rope Boarding Mat

My mom just bought another house. She keeps doing this. Nurse by day, real-estate mogul by...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/18/2004

Fallingwater

While in PA, we visited two Frank Lloyd Wright homes. The first was Fallingwater. I didn't go...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/18/2004

Help Make Blogs More Visible!

There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/17/2004

Old office; new office

I got to switch offices recently. Just moved a few down the hall, but the new one has a view of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/05/2004

Delaying email send in Outlook

All too often, I send an email and regret it a moment later. Maybe I bumped into Send before I was...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/04/2004

Making “Promote Local” make sense.

We’re sitting around watching a video from a usability study. A subject has been exploring the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/29/2004

Whidbey Refactorings: Signature Change

Almost 4 months after the first post in the series… not bad! There are 3 Signature Change...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/25/2004

I don't have a blogroll listed in the sidebar. I read in SharpReader, and maintaining two lists...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2004

What are named indexers?

Someone asked me about this, so I decided to write up the answer here in case other folks are...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2004

Refactoring the XMLNotepad

I’ve been reading Extreme Programming Adventures in C#. Currently reading Chapter 28 (Undo)....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2004

Keeping disks defragmented

I want to keep my disks defragmented, with these constraints: · Don’t consume the disk IO...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2004

email = pain?

A while back I took a training class called "Action Management!". Say it with a deep superhero...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2004

A way to do named indexers.

In this entry on Ladybug, a customer asked for named indexers in C#. Here’s one way to get it:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2004

Dear postal resident

When you enter an issue in Ladybug you should always get a response from us. We have a goal of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2004

Want to work on [TOP SECRET]?

I was reading job descriptions today and came across this one. Cool thing is, I actually do know...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2004

RANU: Running Admin Tasks easily

A while back I described the set of shortcuts I use to run things as Administrator, even though I'm...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2004

Kevin seeking feedback on Formatting behavior

Based on some feedback from the Beta, we're tuning the behavior of the VS 2005 Formatting Engine....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/09/2004

Geek Nirvana

Yesterday I got it to work. All of it, at the same time. Even though I was outside, I was still...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/09/2004

Disclaimer

My employer says I should have a disclaimer. I suggested “Not for use by minors” but...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/07/2004

API writability and the editor

Steve Clark talked about usability of APIs, and a snag some users hit when writing against ADO.NET,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004

More about the event class

In Popular patterns around events?, several folks mentioned that a usage example would be a good...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2004