Kathy Kam

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...

Day 1 : LINQ Finally, after months of planning and preparing the lab, we have started! We had a good turn out this year and I am excited to hear feedback about our content in the next three days. We've also invited Harry Pierson to blog about the lab...

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. It has mainly been two reasons.The site hosting MSDN blogs was down alot during mid-Oct to late Oct. I was sick of my post getting "lost". Secondly, I've been pretty busy with a new project that haven't been annouced...

TechEd just got kick started and I am looking forward to sharing some tips & tricks about building a great Silverlight 2 application. Karen Corby is also doing two talks that is related to Silverlight Controls, but she'll be focusing on how to...

I've never been to Barcelona, actually, I have never been to Spain! So I'm really looking forward to this trip. In addition to Spain, I'm also spending 2 days in Istanbul for an event with a set of Finance Architects. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone...

Finally... after months of working out Silverlight 3 Beta 1 , it is announced!! Now I can freely blog about the features I work on! :) So what exactly have I been working on? Since Silverlight 2 ships, I became one of the lead PMs on a new team of...

Recently, I have also been working on putting together a Compiler Lab for 2006. If any of you are interested in attending, please let me know. Our exciting agenda includes talks on LINQ and IronPython (by Jim Hugunin himself!). Here is the official...

Yes, I know. I'm a little late to the party. This past few weeks has been crazy, with Silverlight 2 RTW, PDC coming up and I'm going to TechEd EMEA, my blogging has fallen behind. :( But even tho I'm a week behind, I'd like to use this time to thank everyone...

So a few posts ago, I said I'll teach myself WinForms. It's been about a month since then... and I want to share some of my learning experience. First off, having been a developer in Outlook, I thought I'll re-write the Outlook client using WinForms...

I haven't blogged in a while and like always.. I have plenty of excuses but I won't bore you with them. :) So what have I been up to? Well, like all products, once you've shipped there is a standard amount of churn in the organization. Anyways, the...

Since VS 2008 Beta2 RTWed, I have gotten quite a few customers asking when we'll be refreshing "Acropolis" to work with VS 2008 Beta2. Today, I am VERY happy to annouce that "Acropolis" August CTP (aka VS 2008 Beta2 Refresh) is available! :) This release...

Come see me interview David Hill and Scott Morrison on Acropolis here . As the community PM, I interview David and Scott on some of the most frequently asked questions about the "Acropolis" project. This was my first real experience in being an "interviewer...

Is this the Acropolis video week or what? All the videos our team has done with Virtual TechEd , Channel 9 and so forth are all being posted. I swear.. this was totally not planned. I actually have no control over when these videos get posted. Check...

Many of you have been asking us where you can get the source and unit test of all the Silverlight 2 controls. It is now available on Microsoft Download. Enjoy! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=EB83ED4C-AC85-4DE9-8395-285628EE2254&displaylang...

With all the discussion surrounding TimeZone2, I haven't gotten a chance to blog about my WinForms and WPF learning at all! Anyways, the WPF and MS Learning team has rolled out this new "eLearning Clinic" for free until .NET Fraework 3.0 Launch...

Come listen to the interview Richard and Carl from . Net Rocks did with me, David and Nathan during TechEd! :) http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=248 It was alot of fun talking to Richard and Carl. They were great. We covered topics...

Aside from my DateTime/TimeZone projects, I want to study what are the essential controls in everyday Line of Business (LOB) Applications. A LOB Applications are applications that forms the backbone of running a business/enterprise. E.g. accounting applications...

So.. in my previous post , I asked "which two names wa the most debated names on the BCL". Well, the types that got the most debate for its name are: Nullable<T> Collection<T> Surprised? Not suprised? Do you think they are named appropriately...

Just bought my tickets and booked my hotel to TechEd '08! Can't wait to see everyone in Orlando again this year!! Here is my schedule: Tuesday 6/3: 8:30am to 6:00pm - TLC Booth Dev Area Thursday 6/5: 8:15am to 2:45pm- TLC Booth Dev Area Friday...

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...

Tonight, I got to meet many MVP at the MVP Global Summit . Thanks for all your great feedback and discussions about the CLR! Here are some of the key takeaways I have: - Developers want improvement in performance for Reflection (Has anyone read...

I am pleased to announce that Acropolis July CTP release is now available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=44977885-86B5-4AA0-9F20-DB365BFB9D10&displaylang=en Features available in Acropolis July CTP...

In the next two weeks, I will be spending some time to learn WinForms and WPF to expand my .NET knowledge. :) I was a UI dev in Outlook,, so I understand the basic concepts of GDI and Win32 programming. But I haven't used WinForms much at all. WinForms...

I just want to let everyone know all the Code Name "Acropolis" related content at Tech Ed. If you are in Orlando attending TechEd, please come and attend our session or meet the team at the TLC (Blue Area). We have a booth with all our latest demos...