Jeremy Kuhne's Blog

In my last post ( MSBuild your SSCLI C# projects ) I demonstrated how to create an MSBuild targets file for the SSCLI (Rotor). In this post I'll show you how to make it easier to use Visual Studio to develop SSCLI C# projects. To build successfully...

[ Edit 22 Feb 2008: The complete SSCLI.CSharp.targets file can be found here . ] In my last post I got SSCLI compiling with the 2008 C++ compiler ( SSCLI 2.0 and Visual Studio 2008 ). (A side note: since it is clearly possible to build SSCLI with the...

The currently available SSCLI 2.0 (Rotor) does not build successfully with Visual Studio 2008. I've managed to make it build and I thought I'd share my changes. Be very aware: I haven't done anything resembling thorough testing on these changes...

As I’ve been preparing more things to talk about I realized that it would be beneficial to have a list of tools to refer back to in my posts. So here you go--a list of tools I find essential to development in .NET. The most important tool is Lutz Roeder...

It has been a long time since I've posted here. For the past couple years I've been moving around the Expression team. For the first version of Expression Studio I pulled together the setup and the internal build system. Getting up to speed on MSBuild...

Sorry I haven't been writing much lately, but a lot has been going on in Expression land. I've switched over to working on build and setup development so you can expect to see the flavor of my posts change somewhat. Here's a frustrating bit I ran into...

Ran into a situation where I needed to get remote desktop access to a machine where I hadn't previously enabled it. I'm not the first to post about this, but the other posts I've seen didn't have information on opening the firewall (XP SP2). Here's one...

Before I dive in, I've put together a simple doc showing how you can liven up the clip art in Office using Graphic Designer that you might find of interest. The other "feature" that was included in the current CTP of Expression Graphic Designer (EGD...

Our January 2006 CTPs are available! http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx What's new?? We've got official names now. (Acrylic => Graphic Designer; Sparkle => Interactive Designer) Interactive Designer is publicly...

I encourage you to take a look. We've done a lot to tighten things up since the last release. We're still hard at work, so any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. (Links to the newsgroup can be found on the site.) http://www.microsoft.com/expression...

A nice video that will give you a bit of what's going on with Expression. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=115387

http://www.microsoft.com/expression It's a great relief to finally have this out in the open. There's a suite on the way, folks, and we're working hard every day to pack as much cool functionality in as we can for you. Take a look at the web site...

I started spending some time looking at double buffering with Windows Forms a little while back and noticed that in the 2.0 framework there are a couple of new BufferedGraphics classes. I toyed around with them a bit and got them to work, but didn’t really...

I've already given the steps necessary to make this happen in an earlier post , but as this will come up so much I decided to pull it into a seperate post with more explicit details. The basic things you need again are: /clr option set for the project...

I'm happy to report that the August 2005 Community Technology Preview is live on http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression ! There are a number of videos and feature details at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/features.aspx . Have...

A tool for inlining IL in C#/VB . (Essentially.)

Back again, and as promised... Subclassing Generic Collections The framework provides three basic collections that are intended for derivation. They are located in System.Collections.ObjectModel: Collection<T> KeyedCollection<TKey...

So far I've gone over the basics of generic collections and moved on to looking at List<T> and Predicate<T>. As mentioned yesterday, this post will deal with subclassing and the other System delegate types. The "Other" System.Delegates...

In yesterday's post I went over the very basics of generic collections in the 2.0 .Net framework. Today I pick up where I left off with... Predicate<T> System.Predicate<T> is a generic delegate that is used to specify a search condition...

In one of my first posts I briefly mentioned that I would discuss a bit about what I've learned about using the new generic collections. I've been putting it off a bit because I knew it would be a bit lengthy, but I really feel this is important so I...

In my last post I talked about converting structs into byte arrays and vice versa. There are a couple of related posts I've found that are worth reading: Read binary files more efficiently using C# Convert Integers to Byte Arrays The first...

[Updated: added performance data. 7/19] I haven't written for a while, but it hasn't been for lack of things to write about. Just been a little busier than normal lately. I'll let you imagine why. ;) Something that I've been working on is parsing...

I just read C++ vs. C# and thought it might be worthwhile to throw up a few thoughts. I've been ranting and raving about how great the new Managed C++ (C++/CLI) is. It's true, it is great, but I still prefer to do most of my work in C#. Why? C#...

[7/20/05: Additional comment added for Marshal::GetFunctionPointerForDelegate()] There are some instances where Win32 requires a callback function pointer. This frequently comes up in Enumeration APIs, such as EnumWindows. In this post we’ll look at...

[7/20/05: Added an additional comment regarding setting up for Win32] I've mentioned in my earlier posts just how nice Managed C++ in 2005 (C++/CLI) is when it comes to interoping with unmanaged code. It makes P/Invoke downright painful by comparison...