Shaykatc's WebLog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/feed.xml Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:01:02 GMT en-US hourly 1 Googles desktop sidebar and email panel https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/googles-desktop-sidebar-and-email-panel Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:35:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/08/23/googles-desktop-sidebar-and-email-panel/ Our sessions at the PDC https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/our-sessions-at-the-pdc Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:50:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/07/28/our-sessions-at-the-pdc/ In case you didnt see it, Luca has posted on our PDC sessions. Lots of cool new language stuff...

https://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2005/07/14/438824.aspx

]]> Compatibility competition! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/compatibility-competition Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:46:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/07/18/compatibility-competition/ We are holding a compatibility competition, to get the last couple of bugs out of the product before it ships! Compatibility for our customers is one of our top priorities for this release – we'd like to make sure your experience on the new runtime and toolset to be great when you use your old projects and executables. We would like feedback from you on a bunch of specific scenarios – and we are willing to provide a C# mug/t-shirt for everyone who provides a compatibility bug that gets fixed! We will collate the results of this in the next month. Interested? More details below –

Scenarios to try.

·       With your application already installed on the machine, install Whidbey and make sure your app continues to work fine. Does your application have any bad behaviour?

·       Assuming your application is using V1.x, force your application to run on .NET FX 2.0 (Whidbey) and make sure it still works.  The easiest way to do this is by dropping a .config file next to the .exe with <requiredRuntime version="v2.0.50215" /> in the <startup> section.  (note that v2.0.50215 is Beta 2)

·       Try installing your application on a machine that already has Whidbey on it (make sure your own install logic doesn't fail) . Does everything seem to work ok?

·       Upgrade your project in Visual Studio.  Were you able to successfully get it recompiled on the new version and executing?  You may hit some "by design" issues when recompiling such as ambiguous overloads. 

A document of known issues can be found at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/listofbreakingchanges.asp

More details on entering bugs!

o       We would like the bugs to be entered in the MSDN Product Feedback Center.
o       Please mark each bug for this area with Category = “Compatibility”
o       Please provide your email in the bug and mention this competition so we can follow up with you about prizes!
o       Prizes - We have cool mugs/t-shirts and gift certificates to give out for each fixed bug!
o       The contest runs through Sept 1st.

Notes

More information on compatibility can be found at:

o       Jason Zander’s blog entry: https://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2005/04/25/411925.aspx
o       Compatibility between .NET Fx 1.1 and .NET FX 2.0 (Whidbey): https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/netfxcompat.asp

o       Testing compatibility: https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/NETFXcompatapptest.asp

o       List of breaking changes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/listofbreakingchanges.asp


Shaykat]]> Ipod candy https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/ipod-candy Tue, 31 May 2005 21:38:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/31/ipod-candy/ this nearly made me change my mind. I'm hovering dangerously on the edge here...]]> Card Game Starter Kit aka "Play more Blackjack" released! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/card-game-starter-kit-aka-play-more-blackjack-released Fri, 27 May 2005 20:07:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/27/card-game-starter-kit-aka-play-more-blackjack-released/ We just released the Card Game starter kit, a new starter kit for Beta2 here. Its a blackjack game...check it out! Karen on our team has been hard at work getting this out of the door and fixing bugs in it all week. The VB version will be releasing soon.

Shaykat

]]> C# Status: 5/27/2005 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/c-status-5272005 Thu, 26 May 2005 15:03:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/26/c-status-5272005/ Short status today...

These last two weeks have been a whirlwind ride for our team. We made a huge dent in our bugs to hit our goals for last week. We incentivized the dev team with late night dinners and they pulled through magnificently, fixing a high number of bugs. We feel good about the bugs and more back on track. We are tracking our bugs today to make sure we hit another goal, but so far its looking good.

I've also started thinking about shutdown procedures. There are two models I know of that teams use as you shut down a product and have escalating bars. The first is the distributed triage system - each team does its first level fo triage, then brings the bugs it wants to have fixed to a higher committee where approval is given. The other model is the one triage team model - one group meets daily and triages all the bugs and listens to teams as they bring back bugs for checkins. The second is better around maintaining a steady triage bar, the first better for team decision making. C# is probably going to do the distributed triage system as we shut down, but I'm still enjoying thinking through the pros and cons of each.

Summer has hit hard here, and its been pretty hot. I live near a lake and going swimming in the evenings has become a great rather than an adventure in hypothermia.

Tech Ed is coming up. Many PM's are preparing presentations and doing dry runs on our team.

Enjoy the memorial day weekend!

   

]]> Xbox 360 interview https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/xbox-360-interview Wed, 18 May 2005 15:21:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/18/xbox-360-interview/ Engadget, a cool tech blog I'm just discovering has an interview with Steve Ballmer and Robbie Back about Xbox 360. Check it out here. Overall I think Steve kept his cards close to his chest. I've been fascinated by all the developing news around comparisons between the Xbox360, Nintendo Revolution and PS3. The console market has its own cool set of themes - Steve mentions that for Xbox 360, he expects it to do well in the U.S, states that Sony will do better in Japan, but Europe will be where they expect to expand their base. Fascinating. And just as fascinating to see the lineup of games for the consoles as well.

Shaykat

 

]]> Whats in a name? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/whats-in-a-name Thu, 12 May 2005 15:16:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/12/whats-in-a-name/ So my name tends to be unusual for most people. Shaykat. Its tough for people to pronounce initially (say Share-cut, then repeat but drop the r). However I've noticed an unusual trend recently. People in email type my name as Skaykat. Why?

The keyboard keys between h and k are a little close but its not clear to me that its just a typing error. I wonder if its because people are focusing on saying the k in my name that they jumble it when typing. Anyone got a good suggestion/reason why this could happen?

Shaykat

]]> C# Status: 5/11/2005 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/c-status-5112005 Wed, 11 May 2005 20:25:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/11/c-status-5112005/ Last week we rocked on bugs. The dev team kicked it up a notch and started fixing bugs to hit their goals. Along with that we fixed all our bugs that were marked Pri1 and opened greater than 48 hours than Friday. It was pretty cool.

On the downside our QA team had a one day bug bash. They installed the RTM versions of the product, and spent a good day trying out different scenarios on it. Our bug count spiked because of that. And today I walk in and see another spike because we got bugs from Watson reports (thank you everyone out there who clicked "Send a report to Microsoft" when they got a crash) & from Prefix runs. So the BugWatch continues.

I'm excited that Revenge of the Sith looks to be good. I re-watched the Phantom Menache and Attack of the Clones this weekend and there were some parts that were just cool - like the Pod Race scene or the fight with Darth Maul where Qi Gon Jin gets it but I spent a ton of time just fast forwarding.

The PM team also spent a good part of the week reviewing our docs. The C# programmers reference where we explain C# concepts is real good by our estimate. We are looking to improve some of the other parts. Is there some stuff in the docs you think are missing? Let us know. We want the feedback!

Shaykat

]]> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/shaykatc/the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-is-being-used-by-another-process Thu, 05 May 2005 20:20:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shaykatc/2005/05/05/the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-is-being-used-by-another-process/

Ever seen the error in the title...the one that happens when you rebuild your project in VS and it says:

Error 1 Could not write to output file Foo.exe' --'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. '

This is a very frustrating error that many users have complained to us about in VS 2003. We have spent many hours figuring out these problems and fixing them. In Whidbey, we want to fix any bugs like these - we've fixed known issues from VS 2003, but if you happen to see one of these in Beta2, here's a guide of things to do. Please report the following stuff to us in the bug you open at the Product feedback site:

  1. Are any Visual Designers open? Does closing Visual Designers (and restarting devenv) help?
  2. Install Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com. Search for handles open on the output file (Foo.exe/Foo.dll). Who is holding handles on it? 
  3. Is the Object Browser open? Does closing it help? Does closing it and restarting devenv help?
  4. Provide an inventory of all windows (including tool windows) open. Sometimes one of these windows has a component loaded locking the dll.
  5. If you can, please send the solution that repros the problem (if you have a consistent repro).
  6. Are any addins running when this error occurs? Perhaps disabling addins helps?

Hopefully, going through these steps should also help you find a workaround for this annoying issue. Please report it to us if you do see it - we want to fix all of these.

Shaykat

 

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