Dan Fernandez's Blog

In our team meeting this week, Jay Roxe , the beloved VB Product Manager was nice enough to bring in some Halloween candy. But alas poor Jay brought what is, in my opinion , the absolute worst Halloween candy there is - candy corn . The nice and well...

Okay, I admit that it's not as fully featured as Notepad, but if you want to learn about some of the IDE features in C# 2005 and you're a little hesitant to install beta software on your machin, then this tutorial is for you. It's interactive! Rather...

Soma and Jay have blogged about this already, but Edit and Continue support will be added to Visual C# 2005!! I really want to echo Jay's comments about the amount of herculean effort it took to get this into the product. Everyone really worked their...

The October Community Tech Previews for Express are now up on MSDN for download . Before you do anything, read the readme and remember that Community Tech Previews are *not*, *not*, *not* high quality builds and will probably be in worse condition then...

There's been a lot of discussion on C# Edit and Continue, and I thought I would try and share some resources we've put on MSDN. Tool : You can try E&C yourself by using the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition October Community Tech Preview (CTP) - You...

After some really tough judging, we officially have the Summer of Express contest winners! There were some awesome applications in the C# category, I was really impressed by the work and level of effort put in by all the entrants. You can download the...

The good folks at MSDN have posted an article by 3Leaf that walks through Edit and Continue in Visual C# 2005 .

Here are some new articles that you might be interested in on MSDN Investigating Code Snippet technology XML Tools in Visual Studio 2005 Create a Debugger Visualizer Using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 In case you missed it, Sam Gentile blogs about how C#...

ASP.NET developers should be aware of the ASP.NET canonicalization vulnerability. More information here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet.mspx BGold shares some good info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2004/10/05/238449.aspx

Tony Goodhew talks about Visual Studio "Orcas" (the version after VS 2005) on Channel9. I only wish Tony voice was my inner voice. Brian Keller and I wish Tony would lend his vocal chords for everything from Airport flight arrival announcements to cell...

Check out the interview , lots of good stuff. There's also lots of good discussion on theServerSide.com .

My arm's better and I'm stupid enough to start playing hockey in two weeks. Lots of stuff to catch up on and my workload has been obscene lately. I've done some catchup work, but still have a lot more to do. More blogging to come :)