You may be in for a surprise when you try to rebuild your strongly named assemblies written in C# under Whidbey for the first time. If you're using the AssemblyKeyFile attribute, you'll get a warning similar to this: signed.cs(4,11): warning CS1699...

Heh! My officemate has her 15 minutes of fame on Channel 9 today! What I love about this whole video actually is how they capture things that you would not see, like our admin, a MSDN Directs meeting (the folks who report to our Product Unit Manager)...

I hadn't anticipated posting again so soon, but I wanted to comment on Saurabh Nandu's comment about Visual Studio .NET and FrontPage. Although both products provide Web development functionality, the two are not intended to be competing products....

Leaving the cafeteria after lunch today, I noticed the front page of today’s USA Today : 10 Lessons of 'The Apprentice '. I always find humor in how the American public learns many of their life lessons and professional skills through television...

Work has been crazy lately and I haven't had much time to work on SimpleScript. It's a lot of work starting from scratch! Right now I'm writing a templatized hash table for the binders and other lookup tables. I haven't written templatized C++ for a loooong...

"How do I trap rename file events in Solution Explorer and cancel the event if it happens?" Great question ! As with many things in Visual Studio Extensibility, there is a way to accomplish this with both Macros/Add-ins and with VSIP. First let’s...

Thanks to all the MVPs who made it to Redmond last week. It was great interacting with you. There were so many activities I couldn't blog about all of them in a timely fashion. So I'll do it now. Monday Night's dinner was a fun informal Microsoft...

As usual my blog entries arise from questions I’ve looked into for people. Today someone asked me how to toggle the NUMLOCK key from VB.NET. I thought to myself that surely there must be a sample somewhere? There was none…(at least nothing...

The SLAR on System.Array Continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations and a sample on the System.List class. BA Notice that we used...

Just in case you didn't think the XBox was gaining popularity in Japan... Here's a line of people waiting to play on the streets of Akihabara.

Saw this released today from the MSDN channel, took a quick read, and felt it was worth repeating. Great stuff including how to make a CMS template appear like a SharePoint page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmscms02...

Recently there was a little bit of a ruckus about the correct way to talk to the Word object model in C# when it comes to missing arguments. If you've ever used the Word PIAs with C# (Primary Interop Assemblies) you will be familiar with the coding practice...