Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: What has the biggest change at Microsoft since you've been here? How do you design new features for C#?

This new feature, which isn't limited to Windows Forms, allows a single class to extend across multiple files, isn't limited to Windows Forms but the designer-generated code is just screaming out for a solution like this. Jay writes: Winforms designed...

In many ways, I'm ok with that; it isn't like they took away the book when they made the movie... LOTR is one of the few exceptions in recent times, although I also enjoyed Timeline (forgive me)... Bourne Identity might have been a good movie, I can't...

We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center , check them out! Just a little note: If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the WMP9 codecs (or WMP9 itself , although that...

From Paschal's blog... Data Structures for VB programmers Interesting PDF file to understand .NET stuff like basic types, arrays, collections and regular expressions. Download here Source: Only4gurus Good presentation... from a great author . It appears...

This very recent article from CodeProject.com shows a Windows Forms control (C#) that allows you to browse AD objects... I have some issues with the implemenation (mainly: why use a User Control... why not just inherit from TreeView?), but the idea is...

If you have any opinions on this topic, make sure you click on the link below and comment through Eric's blog... Who are the best C# bloggers? I'd like to create a list of the best C# bloggers, primarily those outside of Microsoft. Please comment with...

Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging... Attaching to a process without a dialog In [a recent post] , Shaykat gave one alternative to the ntsd '-pn' option. I figured I would give two more.

It is all about "My", a feature of Visual Basic 2005... and I think it is fairly interesting stuff :) Check it out here...

Check out this post from 'The Wayward WebLog' ... it is a good discussion starter for anyone who wants to chat about ORM (object-relational mapping) ... ObjectSpaces: The Devil is in the Demand I’ve coined the phrase ‘object span’ to describe the ability...

I had read this in the 'offline' version of MSDN magazine (you know, that one that uses paper and is hard to copy and paste from?), but I hadn't noticed it was available online until now: Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET MSDN...

I am a closet audiophile, with all the usual history.... did the 'music man' thing for plays, moved up to music guy for bar bands, blah, blah, blah... spent way too much time worried about the alignment of my high-end tape deck, etc... but at some point...

Adam Nathan has created a home for a ton of PInvoke signatures , organized by Module/DLL and pre-populated ( by the man himself ) with a ton of the most common signatures... I'll let the site describe itself with this text from the "What is this site...

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats for a full listing of upcoming chats, but here are a couple of VB ones that you might be interested in... Debugging Visual Basic .NET Applications On Tuesday April 20 at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time , join members of...

With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey (VS 2005), Scott explains how to create your first debugger visualizer: Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 Community Tech Preview ... Visualizers allow for advanced, customized...

via Kent Sharkey's Blog Five ASP.NET Controls You Might Be Craving "In this article, we'll tackle five ASP.NET features that require wicked and creative code." ... if you're looking for a [out of the box] data-bound bulleted or numbered list of strings...

If you haven't been reading his blog , then just let me point out that this post is completely consistent with all of his others... I'll let you decide if this is a good or bad thing :) ... .... I suspect that a whole hoard of you banded together to try...

Visual Basic 2003 or 2005 (Whidbey) questions are welcome... just come on over and post your thoughts: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbfaq/

Scott , one of my colleagues from my first year at MSDN, has a blog now and he just posted a cool entry illustrating the new configuration system in VS 2005... Configuration is a breeze. In the current Visual Studio .NET 2005, you’re going...

Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment : C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases...

In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'. So everybody hopefully knows you can put a star "*" for either of the last 2 version numbers of the AssemblyVersion attribute...

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Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonetheless C# Featurette #2 - Inline Warning Control Another feature that we added for Whidbey is the ability to selectively disable warnings within your code. For example: #pragma warning disable...

If you are using the CTP (Community Technical Preview) or you are just interested in Whidbey/VS2005, then you'll definitely want to check out the new blog created to allow various team members to post info on VS2005. Check it out here . You might also...

I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking panels on top of each other, naming them step1...stepN and then showing and hiding them as necessary. Not exactly an easy-to-reuse approach, but it works...