I saw this recently over an internal email list and I thought I’d share it… A developer asks: I’ve found a bug in the way String.Format handles close curly literals. It’s provoked by having a format specifier on a string. The attached code demonstrates...

Oh, and they talk a little about Xaml and get us into the holiday spirit… Enjoy a very special holiday MSDN-TV show

Ed invites anyone working with LH bits to be heard in a slightly more formal way than blog comments ;-)...

Minor tweaks to this guideline to line up with what is, I believe, common practice already.. As always questions, comments and annotations to me, and the full guidelines can be found here: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/libraries ------...

For the last couple of years we have given a quarterly internal class on how to write great APIs for WinFX . One of the highlights in a class like this is the Q&A. We built in some time for an hour+ long Q&A time with Anders Hejlsberg and...

Last night I caught up on a 50+ message thread over one of our design aliases with many of the “big dogs” on the WinFX team vehemently disagreeing. It is the issue of Strings vs. Uri instances . Honestly, I don’t know where I personally come down...

Joel confirms there will be a Rotor (SSCLI) release for Whidbey… What are you hoping to see with it? I just noticed that at least one of Eric ’s readers uses it as opposed to our product documentation… What do others use it for? What would you like...

I have known Jon Caves for several years… he was part of the committee that formed for first version of the CLS. Dude knows everything about C++… He has already started blogging about some good stuff like what compilers we use internally and breaking...

The GC does an amazing job of managing managed memory… We really work hard to make sure pages stay hot, and the memory is cached where you need it…. But the reality of the world is that for many folks it is not just managed memory they have to deal...

Great timing… They just posted the .NET Show from the PDC the same day I am going to a postmortem on the PDC planning process. Watching it this morning brought back the memories of the buzz of the PDC. Totally worth taking a look if you went to...

From a thread over an internal alias today.. Some have noticed that in V1 we give you access the user’s environment variables… We are fixing it in Whidbey where you can get the user or machine Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP",EnvironmentVariableTarget...

Check out the MSDN TV spot on FxCop we just posted… Jeff and Michael do a good intro to what FxCop is all about. And they even do a little ditty at the end… Oh, and they chime in on the great “ID” debate as well… Don’t miss it!

I was just reviewing some pages for an up coming book and the proofer didn’t like the word “canonicalize”… And, come to think of it neither did http://www.m-w.com . But, what I think is a better test for what’s a word is this dynamic environment is...

Rob asks what tools people are using to write WinFX apps… Anyone following in the footsteps of Don, Chris or Jim? I can’t wait to see the first editor written in C# and Xaml… Anyone working on that?

Steven is our resident a cademic on API usablity design (yes, there really is such a thing). He recently did some looking into the casing issue and is asking for your comments...

Somewhat of a niche guideline... but I got questions internally so it seemed worth writting it down and sharing with you. As always, comments welcome -------------------------------------------------- It is very rare but possible to use...

I am clearing out a backlog of Design Guidelines issues... Do use zero based indexes if the collection is integral indexed. Annotation (BradA): In designing the first version of the .NET Framework we went around and around on using zero...