I mentioned a while back that I change from being a PM for System.Reflection and System.Reflection.Emit..e.t.c to joining the BCL team . (Therefore instead of working of those feature... I'll be owning System.*...etc.) Well.. who's gonna own those features...

Answer: It will assert. Why: Well, first of all... there is one big reason why the assert would fire. "t1" refers to something that has to do with the DerviedClass, and "t2" refers to something that has to do with the BaseClass. Good job Barry for...

Ah.. my old team has just shipped Beta 6!Congrats! To those of you who haven't played with it... you should totally try it out. The tutorial is pretty good, and it'll amaze you how powerful it is. The .NET Framework is at your fingertips! It is...

Today, I learned an intersting (and very important) lesson about building a framework. I was in a meeting where another team wants the BCL's support to add some APIs to WinFX. The APIs they want to add are valuable. It gives power to .NET developers to...

As a relatively new blogger, I am still learning what are good topics to blog. One of the metric I used to see how I do is the data http://blogs.msdn.com provides about how many people read my post (Aggregated and normal). Krzysztof and I had a nice...

It has been a busy week for me and a quiet week for .NET news. Here are some happenings around this space: * Joe Duffy , an BCL PM for threading recently released his new book .NET Framework 2.0 . I know Joe has been working hard on it and the book...

I once had a dev manager who loves puzzles and quizes. During our team meetings, he will write some code on the board and the team would have a competition to see who can spot the mistake first or who can answer a question about the code first. I always...

As I have mentioned in an earlier post , the BCL Team was going to relaunch the BCLWeblog. Last Friday, the team got together and generated a whole bunch of great articles and post. In the next few months, we'll be delivering the post every Monday, Wednesday...

I know I am a little bit behind in annoucing this. Anyways, if you don't know about it already, Rotor 2.0 (aka Microsoft Shared Source CLI) is available for download here ! Now, when you are writing your CLR 2.0 application, and want to debug into the...