greggm's WebLog

We are getting really darn close to shipping Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 is the first released VS-based debugger to support 64-bit. This is a feature that has taken an amazingly long time to ship. The first 64-bit work was done ~8 years ago...

Yesterday I talked about writing a file name comparison algorithm. There are certainly some code bases (and debuggers are certainly one of them) that need to compare file names. That being said, today I wanted to talk about why you shouldn't compare file...

There are new recommendations for comparing strings with the 2.0 .NET Framework (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/StringsinNET20.asp ). You can now use OrdinalIgnoreCase to accurately compare file names...