Time for another interesting snippet, in which the code itself doesn't appear bad at first glance, but again: the coder seems to be making an assumption about the way they have constructed the code, which is incorrect. And in fact, it's not an appropriate...

Eden Li, an intern at Microsoft for the summer, has just completed and posted an update to the CodeDOM Test Suite , which is available for public download on the BCL MSDN site . This is an excellent update to the suite, and includes all the files necessary...

Just an announcement all: I'm giving a WebCast tomorrow on MSDN, on the topic of 'What's New In The CLR, 2.0'. This cast is similar to presentations I have given at both PDC and TechEd, and will highlight a variety of things the CLR has been working on...

A somewhat common problem when getting started with developing managed code and using our IO package is forgetting to close a Stream or a StreamWriter. Users who write code like this will be disappointed: void Foo() { StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter...

This week's Curioddity is a result of the way some things in the framework work. I think many of you are going to know the underlying issue here, so I'm going to make it a bit more obscure (not give too much help) to try to keep it interesting. I would...

Well, I thought I would start a series on interesting things in the framework, and see what people thought about things I find interesting or odd. I'd also love to know what other things you find odd ir interesting that don't happen to come up. For...