Wow. A comment Adam Phillabaum just left on my last post totally sums up the impact corporate recruiters have on the bottom-line of the company: After I interviewed, and subsequently didn't get an offer at Google, the recruiter sent me a one line email...

Awhile ago, I wrote about examining the structure of ETW Events by look at the MOF data in CIM Studio . Having recently started ETW instrumentation of the VS2005 Profiler components, now’s a good time to talk about creating and writing your own ETW events...

Jeffrey just mentioned it during the class: http://www.wintellect.com/powercollections/

UTF7 and UTF8 conversion by MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte is strictly Unicode to Unicode and none of the flags are honored except for WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS. I've noticed a few cases where people expect MB_PRECOMPOSED behavior because the...

In the spirit of the post on Covariant Return Types, and "Death by a thousand cuts", i thought I'd mention yet another intensely aggravating part of .Net development. This one isn't about C# per se, but C# is affected by it. I'm going to use a real world...

Interested in learning more about checkin policies and how to write your own? Check out this great overview from the Implementing SOA blog .

I have been part of the Embedded team since 2003. My main area of responsibility has been the testing of component integration- this involved verifying the integrity of the components authored by the Windows team that owns the feature, ensuring that the...

Here’s some wacky trivia: In v1.1, C# evaluates 3 f .Equals(3) to False. In v2.0, it evaluates to True. (Note that the f suffix lexes as floating point, so 3f is floating-point and 3 is integer). Folks seem to like the v2.0 behavior a lot more, so this...

For those of that have not already seen Dave Templin's new article in MSDN Mag. I encourage you to check it out. I liked it so much I made it a headline this week on the VB DevCenter and have it on the MSDN home page next week. For those of that still...

Lunch time during the Jeffrey Richter's Advanced C# class. This should rather be Advanced CLR. Anyway, I just wanted to share my enthusiasm for a Brazilian musician: Lenine. Paciência, Jack Soul Brasieiro, Napressao, ... all on his Na Pressao album. I...

Please join us today, Wednesday (March 23, 2005) at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for the Understanding Interoperability chat . Today's chat is the follow-up chat to the Understanding Interoperability presentation that was posted on the .NET Framework developer...

Bob Berger asked, in the suggestion box: CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider and CaseInsensitiveComparer are not synchronized, despite what the documentation claims. The problem is that the CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider does not take equivalent character...