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Monday, September 26, 2005 12:23 PM

Ruby: Adding line numbers to source code

Frequently I feel the need for putting line numbers in source files which I put up in my blogs so that I can refer to them in the discussion that follows. /* 1 */ using Output=System.Console; /* 2 */ /* 3 */ namespace AbhinabaNameSpace /* 4 */ { /* 5
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Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:47 PM

Shooting star

Yesterday night when we (me, Ankur and Hemant) were going out to dinner from office ( Microsoft India Campus ), we saw a meteor shooting past us in the sky. It was huge and almost looked like some firework except that it was coming downwards. I had never
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:26 PM

Team Build: Securing your build type

Information applies to Beta3 and beyond releases and subject to change Creation of build type is a two step process in which some files are generated and then checked-in to the source control. For a Build Type named MyBuildType for the Team Project MyTeamProject
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:06 PM

C# : Property vs. field

Recently there was an email-thread in the internal C# group on the usage of property vs. field. The question raised was in case a class implements properties, is it still ok to go ahead and access the field directly from other methods of the same class
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:40 PM

C# 3.0: LINQ, I'm not sure I like it that much

This is the my sixth post in the series of posts I am making on the new features of C#3.0 . See the previous posts on var , extension method , lambda expressions , object-collection initializers and anonymous-types I think the single biggest thing in
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Monday, September 19, 2005 6:56 PM

C# 3.0: I do not like Anonymous types

This is the my fifth post in the series of posts I am making on the new features in C#3.0 . See the previous posts on var , extension method , lambda expressions and object-collection initializers Before getting into why I do not like (actually hate)
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Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:36 PM

C# 3.0: I love object and collection initializers

This is the my fourth post in the series of posts I am making on C#3.0. See the previous posts here , here and here Object and collection initializers are new features in C#3.0 which is syntactic sugar over how you allocate and initialize objects and
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Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:56 AM

C# 3.0: Lambda expressions. I don't like it that much

This is the my third post on the series of post I am making on C#3.0 after it got declared on PDC. See the previous two here and here. It's not that I do not like lambda expression, I just don't like that its being supported in C#. Lets first see what
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:42 PM

C# 3.0: I like Extension Methods

After the declaration of C# 3.0 I went ahead and installed the PDC bits . After reading through the language spec . I was very very very unhappy. I mean we were just getting excited over C#2.0 supporting generics, anonymous mehtods, Nullable types and
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:19 PM

C# 3.0 : I don't like vars

Due to my upbringing in C/C++ somehow I feel uneasy whenever I see some like var a = 5; I guess this is ok in scripting languages. So when I heard that C# 3.0 is going to support implicit types for local variables that made me feel uneasy. I installed
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:19 PM

C# 3.0

Even before C#2.0 is out (RTM) we already have some sneek preview of the C#3.0 features. Check out Cyrus's blog on this. Some time back I had said to some folks here that with some powerful functional programming fans :) in MS we are surely going to see
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:07 PM

Killing spree in India Development Center

Q.What does a bunch of disgruntled programmers do after work in MS IDC? A. They kill each other and shout with Joy when they see blood splatter all around. If you do not believe me drop into the 3rd floor lobby at IDC. Over the last couple of months Halo
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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:44 PM

Animation and Text in System tray using C#

Application running from the system tray is very common these days. Mostly these applications show an icon in the system tray (beside the clock) and almost always have a pop-up context menu. Adding additional features like showing text in the tray or
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