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Someone recently asked me for our template, style guidelines and other details about writing for MSDN. I wanted to find the public page about this, so I dug around for what seemed like ages and couldn't find anything even though I knew this was up on...

Someone suggested to me that VB.NET Whidbey didn't have support for 'Generic Methods', so I quickly wrote a bit of sample code to check (yes, it does support Generic Methods) and I thought I'd post that test code for your amusement. Public Class GenericMethodSample...

Hey folks.... I've been thinking (dangerous, I know) and I've decided that you need to see more code . This might mean more code in this blog, more on the site , more pointed to that lives on other sites .... whatever, just more code in the end. I'm looking...

In a recent post to his blog , Paul Vick discusses the new IsNot Operator (and the history/rational behind the Is operator), which allows you to write; If myString IsNot Nothing Then instead of If Not myString Is Nothing Then and then, in another...

Min Kwan Park , who works in QA on the C# team (responsible for debugger features) has compiled an amazing document for troubleshooting debugging issues in Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 ... check it out here

Turns out we (MSDN) are looking for a few good testers to come and work with us in Redmond... if you are interested in a position, and the following job description (which you may have also seen on Laura or Kent's blog...) is appealing, let us know via...

Hey folks, I've been working with the C# Team and two great C# MVPs (Jon Skeet and Nicholas Paldino) to put together a 'live' C# FAQ. This FAQ is being run as a blog, hosted at http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq and is displayed on the C# Developer Center...

Chris just got back from Disney, Sea World, etc ... Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this weekend, the site manager for C#, Amy, is going to Disneyland this weekend.... and I'm heading there next week... All this, and nary a mention of the...

Check it out here In this fifth installment of the article series we're going to examine graphs. Graphs are composed of a set of nodes and edges, just like trees, but with graphs there are no rules for the connections between nodes. With graphs,...

I'm just playing around with an internal application, just a tool that hits our internal web services for article ratings (you know, the little box that says "7 out of 9" next to MSDN articles...) and displays the results in a grid. Well, there are a...

CodeSmith 2.5 is available, and although I've mentioned it in a few articles on MSDN already, I have to tell you again... I use this utility all the time. It is fairly obvious, if you look at the code from any one of my articles, that I use Code Smith...

From Dave Wanta, the guy behind kbalertz.com , a detailed FAQ for the SMTP mail classes in the .NET Framework. If you are using System.Web.Mail, then you'll want to check it out: http://www.systemwebmail.net/

This page lists all of the C# team blogs (that I am aware of) and provides you with a list of featured posts that I've pulled out of the various individual blogs ... check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/blogs and let me know what you...

Ok... so I'm biased here, Pedro used to be my grand-boss at MSDN, and now works on some very cool and very graphical magic as part of the Whitehorse team ... but on the side it appears he has been developing some Windows Forms controls, so I would suggest...

Click here to see the first post, which is a request for some questions!!

You may never see the actual web interface to my blog, but if you do you'll see two new graphics along the left-hand side... Cory has been busy...

Hmm... pretty cool so far, guess I'll see when I decide to start moving music around to my MCE box, my laptop, my Rio device... etc... found the Cake song I wanted though :) [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version - CAKE - Comfort Eagle...

Shaykat , a PM on the C# Team, has been posting some great tips on VS.NET 2003 so I thought I would collect them here for your linking pleasure; Tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project! Tip #2: Macros Tip #3: View...

One of the changes from VB6 to VB.NET was the removal of non-zero lower bounded arrays... a concept discussed by Eric Gunnerson recently , and now covered by Paul... giving it a bit of VB perspective. Non-zero lower bounded arrays (the other side of...

Brian Randell has written 4 (really 7, but 3 of them are just the same article as both VB and C#) articles on using MSDE in your applications... (via Kent Sharkey's blog ); Using MSDE? A whole whack of articles from Brian Randell on working...

Gus Perez has posted the binary and source for a little utlity he has dubbed "ezClip"; Back in the 7.0 days I wrote a little tool called ezClip. It's sole purpose was to allow me to copy/paste files from one command prompt window to another. Our test...

Over in the Office side of the world, a set of 6 labs have been released, focused on learning how to use VB.NET and C# to create Office solutions with Office 2003 and Visual Studio Tools for Office... cool stuff if Office development is your thing (and...

If you follow Eric's blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you'll have already seen these... but if you haven't then let these three posts be just a taste of what is available over there ; Who does Microsoft talk to when they have questions...

A few team members have blogged about this already, but here I go again... Unit testing is a method of testing individual software components. Each function in every class is tested to make sure it does its job correctly, with the hope that if everything...

Gus Perez has been maintaining an up-to-date list of C# team blogs , but after carefully duplicating his categorization in SharpReader , I thought I would try putting it up as an OPML file... You can grab it from here , and import it into your RSS Aggregator...