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Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:52 PM

Build Type creation and Drop Location

One of the most common issues everyone is running into with Team Build is configuring the Drop Location. All builds that happen through Team Build are dropped (bits are copied) to this location. Drop location is entered in the Location page of the Build
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Friday, August 26, 2005 12:44 AM

subscribe / unsubscribe to an event

In one of the internal aliases there was a discussion going on some time back regarding which is the better way to unsubscribe from an event and why does the first one even work myClass1.MyEvent += new EventHandler (Function); Do all stuff myClass1.MyEvent
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Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:41 PM

Emails, Emails and more emails

Just saw the post Slaves to email on excess email in MS and I couldn't agree more..... Large email volume for people who manage others, or those who interact with external customers is expected. But even for individual contributors (Dev/Test) the volume
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:34 PM

The CLR Nullable DCR works!!!!!

CLR took a DCR some time back on how nullable types are implemented. See here and here to find out more about the DCR. I found from one of the internal DLs that the fix was already in the RTM bits. I wrote a small piece of code which should work only
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:43 PM

Frame arrangement in image strips used for animation

Sometimes we get so used to things being the way they are we stop questioning them. We always have the perception in mind that individual frames of animated logo in a Bitmap strip is always horizontally arranged. I remember writing code to extract icons
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Sunday, August 14, 2005 1:32 AM

CLR takes a DCR for Nullable type

I saw from Soma's blog that VS is taking a DCR to fix the issues about Nullable types that is being talked about in various blog. This is super cool as Microsoft demonstrated like never before that we do care about customer feedback as this is a direct
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Friday, August 12, 2005 8:45 PM

Function generator in C++

Some of us were just chatting about my previous post about function generators and we wondered about whether it can be done in C++ without using function pointers.... Most of my C++ knowledge has been rusted beyond repair but I thought even though its
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:59 PM

My experiments with continuation in C#

The blogs are buzzing with continuation support in C# 2.0 and what cool things can be done with it. http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/04/13/Continuations-for-Curmudgeons explains the concept of continuation extremely well. I also found Don Box's posting
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:40 PM

Team Build notification tool

< this tool has been updated check out here > As we go on developing the product we frequently feel strong about doing new things around our product either to increase customer value, easy of use, flexibility or just because it can be done. Most
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Monday, August 08, 2005 2:53 PM

Anonymous methods and closures in C#

Anonymous Method One of the new features in C#2.0 being shipped in with Whidbey is anonymous methods. Though this at first glance looks like an easy way of creating delegates, where instead of having to create a new function which the delegate will call
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