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Hello J ! My name is Yu Xiao. I am a Software Design Engineer/Test working on Visual Studio Class Designer team. This time I am going to demonstrate how to visualize inheritance hierarchies using Class Designer. When I was reading existing code, even...

Nous avons pris le TGV hier de Lille pour Lyon pour pouvoir nous préparer à présenter l'édition 2005 des DevDays 2005 à Lyon. J'ai passé les 3 heures de trajet à grelotter et à me moucher. Bref, je me suis demandé comment j'allais faire pour assurer...

I was playing around the other day and I wanted to be able to put the ability to play some video into an application I was building. I thought to myself how nice it would be if I could just put Media Player into my application. Of course I would want...

A reader recently asked me if there is any perf difference between Convert.ToString() or Int32.ToString(). If you search for Convert.cs you will find the Rotor source for Convert.cs which helps answer the question… 02066 public static string ToString...

So Microsoft started talking about XBox 2.0 yesterday and has provided some details. From the press release : The next-generation XBox hardware design principles include the following: A well-balanced system that will deliver more than a teraflop of targeted...

The Suggestion Kitty says … If you use “Markup” in Word to track changes and edits to your resume or cover letter, but sure to remove all the comments before emailing a softcopy of your resume to potential employers. By default on my computer, Word opens...

This is huge news...very exciting. Microsoft will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie (he's got a blog ), chief technology officer at the software giant. FT.com : "Microsoft , the world’s largest software maker, on Thursday said...

I try not to push 2.0 information too much, as there are many others out there with far more knowledge on it than me. Having said that, I saw this new setting this morning. <trace enabled =" true | false " localOnly =" true | false " pageOutput ="...

After posting a brief article about my opinions regarding script-based custom actions , I started thinking more about what I consider an even bigger personal pet peeve of mine - managed code custom actions. I want to caveat everything I am about to say...

Today I want to wrap up my concurrency series (finally). There are some more topics I'll be covering in the future (like the debugging concurrency issues I talked about yesterday :)), but I think I've said a reasonable amount about the issue (and frankly...