I've gotten some good and interesting feedback on the post about doing usability for Generics. The question on some people's minds is, “Did the language design team really listen to us when they designed how we will use Generics in C#, or were they...

Microsoft Main Campus, from the air. The X-shaped buildings, the original six, look alternatively like the evacuated Mars Rover landing structure or a game of tic tac toe that Bill won. Due to their byzantine configurations, finding your way to and through...

So you’ve asked for it and we do our best to provide! I would like to introduce you to Lars Bergstrom. Lars is currently a Software Design Engineer in our Visual Studio product group. This entry is set up to give you an idea of what the “day...

Some years ago, I was downloading books from Project Gutenburg . I had finished couple of Masters degrees and a few years before had decided not finish off my doctoral dissertation. Nevertheless, I have retained this love of literature. Then, I thought...

Addins & Packages - can they talk to each other? I recently received a question on this from a VSIP partner (Velocitis) so I thought I'd share the info with everyone. Getting to a package from an addin is fairly straightforward. The package...

This is the DVD set I've been waiting for since I first started buying DVDs (which was about six years ago, when the number of released DVDs in the UK was about 20). I'm sure there will be another boxed set in the future with all six films, but I can...

People wanted Luna for others, but they want Aero for themselves....

South Carolina is considering being a "free pour" state after all....

So, What is MSMQT? I (stupidly as it turns out) just thought it was a new revision of MSMQ shipped with BTS04 that replaced or extended the built-in MSMQ functionality. Oh did I get that wrong!! J MSMQT ships with BizTalk 2004 primarily to get around...

An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram: [diagram picture] I've been asked on several occasions how to make one of these puppies, so I thought I'd publish the steps I saw one of my coworkers use: Launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint...

An application write should aim for making sure that all their users have good experience usign their application. Often times while designing the UI of an application developers dont think that some of the users may be visually impaired. Following are...

Many assume that the Design Guidelines document is intended to be a repository of the best solutions to common API design problems. Let me get it straight right away. This is not the intention at all. The main purpose of the Design Guidelines is to achieve...