Pilchie's C# and Visual Studio Blog

In VS2008 SP1 our team added a significant new feature: live semantic analysis of open files (or “background squiggles” as we called it internally).  Unfortunately, soon after release we found a few small issues with the release.  They are:...

Yesterday at the PDC, Dustin announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C# .  This is a free addin for VS 2008 that provides a whole bunch of fantastic editor productivity features.  Download it today and give it a shot!

The topic of removing elements from a dictionary came up recently on an internal mailing list.  Someone was iterating through all the elements of a collection and wanting to remove some of them. The problem with that is that modifying the collection...

I hate using strings to represent program elements!  One of the big problems is that it hinders automated refactoring.  Strings don’t have any semantic meaning, so refactoring tools don’t know which references to the string need to be updated...

Just a quick update.  After my previous post, I actually stopped using virtualization for most cases, since I found the performance hit to be too significant.  While the automation I mentioned before still doesn’t support HyperV, I hand built...