I often find myself writing or consuming API's which require the caller to specify some sort of options.  I've seen numerous ways to specify those options, but I've yet to find one that I really like.  Let's work with an example throughout the...

Another problem related to using VS in order to develop VS happens in the area of unit testing. The problem here is that my team would like to write tests for the C# language service in C#, unfortunately, this means that our dogfood IDE has the release...

There are a couple of issues that come up for developers who work on Visual Studio that just aren't issues for most people.  The first is that working on components of VS while using VS is hard.  It's hard for a couple of reasons. You want to...

A friend sent me a link to Tomas Restrepo's collection of VS Color Schemes today.  I think it's a fantastic idea.  I like to use a dark background, but there sure a lot of settings that need to be changed in order for it to be usable. ...

Today being Thanksgiving here in the US (it's a month late, I know, but what can you do, eh?), my family spent the day making a big turkey dinner.  My wife is usually the big cook in our house, but today she's got a bit of cold, so I ended up doing...

A bunch of people ( Eric , Wes , Joe , etc) have been writing about the wonders of immutable data structures lately.  A friend who no longer works at MS suggested that I should dig up some code that he wrote with some feedback from me to try and...

Okay, anyone whose been holding their breath for the last 1.5 years for part two of this series, I'm going to have to disappoint you.  I have no idea anymore what it was that I was planning on writing about in Part 2 of that series.   However...