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Funny how it goes. I've been away a while from blogging mostly working on other stuff and prioritizing my life around other work tasks. But recently, Ericgu left C# and I'm covering our community interaction. And I realize that I miss the interactions that I used to have through my blog, or the sheer pleasure of telling the community of how we work, little tricks in the IDE etc etc. So I come back sheepishly, but excited again to share a little bit of C# with you guys.

Its been a fun couple of months. With the Beta2 release on the horizon, we've been working hard at shutting down the product. The C# team put in some hard hours to reduce our bug backlog and that was a pretty intense experience for me. As a result of this big push we've reached out to the community less and now we want to change that.

I'm planning what we can do to help you with our product. Currently some ideas floating in my head -

  • More code samples that we write and make available.
  • A simpler page at msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp
  • More or at least more frequent VC# team member blogs.

What else would you like from us?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2004
    The ability to specify both the field and property names that get generated when using the Encapsulate Field refactoring feature. :-)
  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2004
    I have attended a "Hands on lab" in Microsoft Brazil a few months ago and there they presented attendees with a CD full of "Hands on labs". I loved them all and I believe Microsoft should develop samples as "Hands on labs" and let developers download them from Microsoft site. What do you think about?
  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2004
    Sean - I've sent along your feedback.
    Luciano - thats a good idea. Let me follow up and see if I can help out here.
  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2004
    Sean, have you btw tried using the expansions in the editor to perform the encapsulate field? You can type prop or propg in the editor, hit tab and you will get the property created. In this way, you will have the option to specify the field and property names.
  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2004
    a) contests! Both whole program contests, but more snippet type contests - imagine for instance an ongoing "template of the month" competition - where each one wins something on the order of a pocketpc or xbox+games or something - and there is a website where we can see and comment on all previous entries.

    b) "powertoys" - surely the .net dev team has all sorts of stuff that they've written to make their lives easier, from code to macros and the like?

    c) hosted debates... we get this a bit from Eric's site, but there are a lot of issues in coding that people aren't sure about, or vehemently disagree about. A forum where all the MS developers are involved as well, and particular issues are debated would be very popular. Things like "should you make static functions" "should you have public constructors" - "should member variables be prefixed" .
  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    After their push to ZBB the C# team would like to improve how they reach out to the community.