Since lots of people are curious about this, Dan Conley responded to an email from a customer and said that I could publish this publicly. VS 2005 Beta 1 timebomb date = July 1, 2005

For those of you who don't know, Class Designer (CD) is a Visual Studio 2005 feature that lets you visually design/model your data types. You can use CD to design custom .NET classes and it can be also used to better understand and navigate an existing...

Reader Question : What's the most complex data structure you've ever run into or had to program against? My personal one was the " Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization " (you can download it if you're bored) which is a monster DTD that...

Edit: Our CRM team says this job posting doesn't belong to them I got sent this recently from a Microsoft SDE position (Job ID: 124984) ....The candidate must have 4+ years of commercial development experience in following areas: .NET Framework, ASP.NET...

Object Test Bench is a new Visual Studio 2005 feature that helps you understand objects at Design Time, rather then runtime. How many times have you walked up to a code base and created some simple test console/Windows/web applications just to run a couple...

Taken from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1454225,00.html Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT By Elizabeth Judge, Telecoms Correspondent GOOGLE revolutionised the internet. Now it is hoping to do the same with our phones. The...

Mini-Microsoft is a blog dedicated to reducing Microsoft employee headcount: "Let's slim down Microsoft into a lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine! Mini-Microsoft, Mini-Microsoft, lean-and-mean!" I wanted to give my personal...

DJ Bolivia , whom I blogged about earlier , has released the final volume of the three part series Music To Code By . "Exception Handler" (Music To Code By, Volume 3 of 3) 60 minutes of Progressive/Tribal House Download the MP3 or listen to the stream...

Brian Goldfarb wants to know what the best way to create master page templates for you is. Let him know what you think

[Aside: Can you tell I'm cleaning out my blog queue? I'm on a productivity rampage, only 46 more entries to go. Some posts I can delete, b/c frankly they are outdated ex: Who are you going to vote for this November? Happy Halloween! etc] Don Box uses...

Scott Wiltamuth, the Product Unit Manager of the C# team and one of the designers of the C# language has started a blog (after some gentle nudging from yours truly). Subscribed!

It took a small miracle to get this up (you don't want to know), but please cruise through the Overview of Visual C# 2005 (by Patrick Barnes ). You may even find some features you didn't even know existed, like: Nullable Types Code Definition View Object...

Thank you Chris Sells :) In his post, Chris asks whether all of the features shown in this demo will work in the other Visual Studio products. The answer is yes . The way we've thought of our products for Visual Studio 2005 is that it's a Russian doll...

For those of you who missed this, the BCL Team officially announced that Generics for the .NET Framework 2.0 will be CLS compliant . This is awesome :) I've also updated my previous post on the subject

This handy Channel9 post shows how you can create XML Web services using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 1 . I have gotten questions like this and I wanted to explain the difference between Framework support and tool support. C# Express has full access...

For those of you who haven't seen this, TheServerSide.NET interviewed Anders Hejlsberg , chief designer of the C# language. If you're interested in the design of the C# language, untyped versus typed languages and C# futures, you'll definitely want to...

Happy holidays to all, I'm back from a well-rested vacation and looking forward to taking on the new year. As usual, I made the same empty promises, lose weight, eat healthier, blog more, etc. We'll see how I hold up. (Much) More importantly, my condolences...