Brad Abrams

To continue sharing some of the color found in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 , here is some information from the ArgumentNullException class. public class ArgumentNullException : ArgumentException { // Constructors...

One of the things that I think is so cool about the CLR is the fact that it is multi-language… The first commercially successful multi-language runtime environment. One of the things that I think is neat about that is we have to potential to survive...

I just got a chance to review the slides for this webcast… looks good… You might want to check it out. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032247650&Culture=en-US

These folks are spamming every one of my posts… I guess I need to break out Raymond’s comment scrubber… but still, can we ban that IP address or something like that? Are other folks being hit as well? ..brad Sender: anon...

I am very happy to have this book done! Ever since I started working on the CLR, almost 6 years ago, I have wanted SOMEONE to do a book like this. In a past life when I did Java development, I really liked Chan (et al)’s The Java Class Libraries...

I just got the word today, I will be heading to TechEd ’04 ! I am looking forward to hearing how working with the .NET Framework is going and what you think of the great new stuff in Whidbey. What are you looking forward to at TechEd? If your...

Isn’t it funny how we need to be reminded of the basic principles of software engineering on a fairly regular basis ? Here is a simple test that I think 100% of you will get right, but we tend to fail it in the real world 9 times out of 10. Which...

Justin started a good discussion on some updates to the GC… Kit George (who owns the features) responded…

We are in the middle of closing down the V2 of the CLS and I have been surprised by the number of folks that don’t know what the CLS is. The CLS (or Common Language Specification) is a simply a contract between programming language designers and...

A question about how to get the “C style representation” out of a DateTime came over an internal alias recently. Turns out the person needed the number of seconds since the Unix epoch . Not too bad to do with the DateTime class… ...

Lori asks an interesting question about what parts of the LH sdk should ship in the OS. I personally love this idea… what if there was even a developer SKU of the OS? The Start menu could have your debugger, editors, etc readily available. VSPad...

While I was not lucky enough to be in Don’s group , I did have a blast at the Indigo AppDay. I actually got to shut down outlook and IE all day and focus on writing code. We did the same project Don describes. We got all 5 of us playing multiplier...

Tomorrow we have a WinFX API review for some of the windows shell team’s APIs. On one of the classes I see this set of overloads: public DialogResult ShowDialog(); public DialogResult ShowDialog(Window parentWindow); public DialogResult...

Please welcome Krzysztof Cwalina to the roles of Microsoft bloggers. He is the editor for the internal version of the Design Guidelines document, so I am sure he will have lots of good information to share here. He starts his blogging life with...

In a recent post I asked if you folks would be interested in this… and today I see that Josh Williams a developer on the CLR team working on 64bit started a blog. A “must subscribe” for folks that want to know WAY too much about the...

In a recent post I asked if you folks would be interested in this… and today I see that Josh Williams a developer on the CLR team working on 64bit started a blog. A “must subscribe” for folks that want to know WAY too much about the...

One of the great new features of Whidbey is the ability to run some of your CURRENT managed applications *natively* on 64bit machines. Some interesting thoughts on this came up in a recent post and it got me talking with the folks working on the 64bit...

A friend of mine at work just saw a copy of PrintShop 20 Deluxe and PrintShop 20 Professional Publisher Deluxe at Staples and noticed that they require the .NET Framework. Very cool, speaks to the momentum we are seeing around not just line of business...

One of the folks on the FxCop team gave me an idea for a new tool in the battle for at least naming level consistency across WinFX. We always find ourselves asking questions about the “right” way to case certain terms. Recall the great ID...

Interesting question from inside the firewall: I expected Char.IsLetter() to return true only if presented with 'A'..'Z' or 'a'..'z' in my current (US English) locale. I find that I also get true returned for alphabetic characters above the ANSI range...

Usage data on “Callback” vs. “CallBack” in the whidbey build of the .NET Framework CallBack 5 System._AppDomain::public Void DoCallBack(CrossAppDomainDelegate theDelegate); System.AppDomain::public Void DoCallBack...

Here is a minor clarification on the enum size guidelines. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. As always, you can check out the base design guidelines and my incremental updates. Do use Int32 (the default in most programming...

Following up on The PInvoke problem conversation we had the CLR interop team put together this FAQ … Looks like lots of good resources out there already. We hope this goes a long way to addressing the issues you raised.

I was playing a little with C#’s new yield keyword and I thought I’d update the code from this article with the “ Whidbey ” way to do. Now as I am sure my good friends in perf land will tell you this is likely not the most...

I had so much fun with my little generics experiment that I thought I would try the same code in VB. A couple of interesting notes: Generics are fully supported by VB… I found zero language\compiler issues with this little example...