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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:15 AM

VSTS Source Control Annotation

One of the coolest feature of the upcoming Orcas release is the Source-Control file Annotation feature. "Annotate is a feature that allows developers to inspect a source code file and see at line-by-line level of detail who last changed each section of
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:18 PM

Using Trace-Points in Visual Studio

Even though everyone knows about break-points, trace points seem to have been used way less. Developers sometimes need to inspect variables and other state as a program flows without interrupting the execution (so no break points). Even if the program
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:09 AM

It's Link

I saw the same thing in TechMela which Dinesh reported. Many attendees was pronouncing LINQ as "link cue". The actual pronunciation is "link". Not that it matters much (this is not as bad as C Pound or C Hash where the meaning maybe completely lost).
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:54 AM

The difference between is and as and dealing with FxCop Warning CA1800: variable is cast multiple times

I had the following code public static void f1( object ob) { if (ob is Foo && (( Foo )ob).m == 10) Console .WriteLine( "Yea" ); } This gave the following FxCop (Code analysis) performance warning: 'ob', a parameter, is cast to type 'ConsoleApplication5.Foo'
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:00 PM

Which font do you use for your resume

I had asked this before , but this time the question is "which font do you use for your resume?". The other question is what do you tell a person who sent me her resume in Comic Sans MS font.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:27 AM

Static method calls in generics

I go this question from a blog reader. "The following code should be possible public class Class1 { public static void Hi() { Console .WriteLine( "Hi" ); } } public class Class2 <T> where T : Class1 { public static void Hi() { T.Hi(); //This should
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Monday, June 18, 2007 7:04 PM

The Microsoft Sourcer is here

I had never heard of this position before either , but in case you are looking for working with Microsoft anywhere in the world, Sourcer in Microsoft is your best bet. Check out Jim one of the sourcer here or see the cool video below Video: The Recruiters
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Monday, June 11, 2007 8:15 PM

I'll be going to TechMela 2007

Like TechEd, here in India we are having TechMela this year. This time the venue is Mumbai and I'll be there!!! Unfortunately there is very little bit of Language stuff. I plan to attend all UX presentations (covered in the agenda's Track 2) and also
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Monday, June 11, 2007 11:42 AM

Interviewing with Microsoft India

"What to expect in the interview" I've had this question from candidates that I have referred or distant relatives or friend's friend (you get the idea!) who are appearing for an interview with Microsoft . Somehow people still get to hear that Microsoft
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:00 AM

Adding Trace to a .NET application and listening to it

Just yesterday I was chatting with a friend and he was telling me how they are writing a thread-safe logging library for their .NET app. I was astonished to find out that they were completely unaware of the awesome trace library in .NET. So this post
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Monday, June 04, 2007 12:05 PM

SPAM is served

When I was deleting spam from the spam folder of one of my personal email accounts, the advertisement on that page pointed me to the recipe of SPAM VEGETABLE STRUDEL . I could almost hear the waiter say "Today's speciality is spam".
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Friday, June 01, 2007 8:20 PM

Domain experts and their fixation

Some times all programmers get stuck in some weird issue with a specific technology which doesn't fall in his area of expertise. If this problem is really weird or very specific to a scenario then it's difficult to find a solution online and the only
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