Brad Abrams

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I got in a little discussion with a colleague tonight about how many non-English speaking developers are using the .NET Framework. He asserted “all programmers speak English”… The general jest behind his argument is that developers tend to pick up English...

We had a thread recently about the oddly named SafeHandle.DangerousGetHandle()… Which raised a few other oddly named methods from platforms past: FDangerouslyCommitToDiskCacheButNotActuallyToDisk (or some approximation, from OLE) SetMetafileBitsBetter...

Continuing on the weekly series , today we posted the session on A Rich Type System. Thanks for watching the last week’s session on naming conventions and coming that chat… Last week we had over 90 people at the chat. If you missed it there will be a...

We had a great chat today following up from the Designing .NET Class Libraries session on Naming Conventions . I believe we did get a transcript of that chat that will be posted soon. One of the things that was asked in one way or another about 50 times...

Someone recently asked me for information on the trend of .NET Framework installations. Here is what I dug up… I thought you might be interested: 1. More than 120M copies of the .NET Framework were downloaded and installed (using either Microsoft downloads...

I got a new desktop machine at work… it is a 64 bit machine from running Windows XP x64 edition . It is very cool to see IntPtr.Size return 8 rather than 4! I must say, before I got it I was not convinced that the transition to 64bit would be a fast one...

As promised today we started a regular series on designing great frameworks… This material is taken directly from some recent internal training I ran. I hope you will take a look and let me know what you think and tell other folks that might be interested...

I am not sure of the official Microsoft answer, but if you know me, you know my answer ;-), And that seems to be shared by Michael Otey who’s recent article comparing the Sql Server and DB2’s CLR integration A Tale of Two CLRs starts with this line: It...

A reader recently asked me about a this common patter, where handler is event if (Handler != null) { Handler(args); } He is right, that this is not threadsafe… to see why I clipped a recent update from the Design Guidelines document… Thoughts, comments...

Continuing on the weekly series , today we posted the session on naming conventions . Thanks for watching the intro class and coming that chat. We had over 1,600 folks already watch the talk and nearly 80 folks in the chat. If you missed it you can catch...

I wanted to extend Jim Miller ’s innovation to attend the CLR compiler’s dev lab… From: Jim Miller (.NET) Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:50 PM To: DOTNET-LANGUAGE-DEVS@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM Subject: Invitation to Developer Lab I’ve been asked to forward...

For most of the month of February I will be participating in what promises to be a very interesting Microsoft employee training event. The program is officially 3 weeks long and focuses getting folks in product teams to better understand our customers...

In the same vein as Krzysztof’s post on the reason why IEnumerator extends IDisposable , I thought I’d post this thoughtful response from Anders Hejlsberg on why IEnumerable<T> inherits from IEnumerable. Ideally all of the generic collection interfaces...

More from the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here is an annotation from the System.Console attribute. Brad Abrams : Notice the heavy use of method overloading in this class. We special...

A reader recently asked me if the CLR is a Virtual Machine or not. An interesting question that comes up frequently enough that I think it is worth addressing here. I asked around the usual suspects on the CLR team and got some of their impressions. As...

Someone recently sent me a link to GB-PVR … it is a managed client app that does MediaCenter like functionality. I installed it at in looks cool, but I could not test it as I don’t have a tuner card ( or even any TV reception to speak of)… Anyone else...

Joel Marcey , Chair to the ECMA CLI standards committee started a blog recently. He is asking about your comments on the standard… What is your feeling about the standardization of the CLI within ECMA and ISO? The process has helped bring about technologies...

I must say, very cool. The folks at thinktecture have put together an auction of 1 hour of consulting time from some noteworthy .NET Celebrities in order to raise money for Aceh Aid at IDEP . Check it out: The .NET Celebrity Auction for Aceh Aid at IDEP...

More from the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here is an annotation and simple sample from the System.Diagnostics.ConditionalAttribute attribute. Brad Abrams : There is a common misconception...

In honor of generics getting into the CLS , I thought I’d get back to the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here is an annotation from the System.CLSCompliantAttribute class. Brad Abrams...

As part of my FrontLine trip I will be speaking at the Dallas .NET User's Group …If you are in the area, please come! BTW – I don’t know where they get these tag lines; can 7 years working on this stuff really make me a grandfather? Boy, the tech industry...

On a recent post , someone asked about the Int32.DontTouchThis() method.. I thought more folks would want to hear it... From int32.cs #if _DEBUG private void DontTouchThis() { m_value = 0; } #endif Our C# compiler has some great logic for detecting unused...

As part of my FrontLine trip I will be speaking at the Bay.NET User Group …If you are in the area, please come! Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management When: Tuesday, 2/15/2005 at 6:30 PM Where: Microsoft Silicon...

Well, at least the opening sequence… ;-) By using Windows® SharePoint® Services, Windows Server System and the Microsoft .NET Framework, Digital Dimension was able to push its exciting new Super Bowl sequences through the process with tremendous speed...