Earlier this week, I wrote an internal email explaining how Finalization works in V1 / V1.1, and how it has been changed for Whidbey. There’s some information here that folks outside of Microsoft might be interested in. Costs Finalization...

Saw this on MSDN, its finally here. The first book dedicated to Indigo, published by Microsoft Press. MSDN has an article by the author (with one of the chapters of the book here). http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us...

Some of fellow bloggers pointed out the following post on zapthink .Some of the situations this article points out IMHO, are not applicable or non-existent . 1) homogeneous environment : In a real world enterprise you will never know if you have such...

Welcome to Aaron's World. This is a temporary replacement for my blogger site .

Gunnar Kudrjavets wrote a very informative post the other day discussing how to direct assertions to file or debug output . Well, how to still make sure that assertions will be triggered when appropriate, but not to have any visual side-effects? Fortunately...

Ok, so a large part of my job is finding breaking changes and helping make sure that they get fixed. These changes are classified as backward or forward compatibility breakers. Backward compatibility means a newer version of the .NET FX can run older...

Ah, yes, volleyball night. I played a couple of games at the pro club tonight. It wasn't as good as usual because there seemed to be a couple of weak players there. There is actually a separate court for folks who don't play well, but sometimes people...

I recently watch a science program from Nova and it's really fascinating. It's about a theory for everything. I strongly recommend this program... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

You should never start a blog and then post a bunch and then do nothing, right? Well, let it not be said that I made no posts for an entire week! This will be a short post. I am off to Utah for a week of skiing. An annual trip full of great skiing...

Visual C# Whidbey really does rock, don't believe me? I'll show you in this MSDN TV episode . Things I showed: Language/Framework Features Generics Anonymous Methods DataSet XML serialization File class enhancements IDE Features...

What do you do when you want to innovate on top of 1.4M lines of 20-year old C code? Code so ancient that your Chief Architect describes it as “so crufty and esoteric that we couldn't even understand it sufficiently in a single release cycle”...

Benjamin has a cool analysis of the natural migration of connected systems to Indigo.