One pattern I’ve started running into is developers explicitly throwing a NullReferenceException when validating the “this” parameter of an extension method. public static void ForEach<T>( this IEnumerable <T> enumerable, Action <T>...

Shortly after Visual Studio 2010 shipped I wanted to experiment with the new VSIX format for traditional Package extensions.  I fired up my copy of Visual Studio, ran through the new package project wizard.  But instead of a nice shiny new project...

A question came up recently on stack overflow concerning the display of newlines in the immediate window.   The author noted that any .ToString method which contained a newline printed incorrectly when evaluated in the immediate window. ...

After 4+ years on the languages team it’s time for me to move onto the next adventure.  I joined the languages team in the winter of 2006.  Since then I’ve worked on pretty much every part of the language experience including the compiler, debugger...

One item I find to be limiting in C# is the new generic constraint.   The syntax construct specifies that the type backing a given generic parameter contains a parameter less constructor.   It allows methods to create instances of generic...

Some readers may remember an article I published almost half a year ago about LINQ being absent from the debugger windows.  That post explored the initial design of the feature, it’s limitations and ultimately why it was absent but promised a future...

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010.  This is available on the extension manager in Visual Studio or can be downloaded directly at the following link. Link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/59ca71b3-a4a3-46ca...

Recently the MSDN blog architecture got a long overdue update to a new infrastructure.  Most of these changes are very welcome but a few are causing a bit of issues for me and readers My blog URL changed to - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/ Additionally...