Last week was the Lang.NET Symposium 2006 here in Redmond. I still remember us planning for this event a few months back. It started off as a small group of people wanting to reinvent the then compiler labs into something bigger. The goal was to get all...

Hi, I’m Shawn. I mostly work on Windows Vista, but I also work on lots of the stuff in System.Text and System.Globalization. Most of my expertise is in Encodings, IDN & Unicode Normalization, and CultureInfo, particularly Custom Cultures. I blog...

I have seen a few recent posts floating around the user community where users have been writing complicated code to get some very simple information such as a timestamp into their traces. As a follow up to this, I’d like to describe the TraceOptions enum...