Folks, Hi! A recent feature poll on the MSBuild blog seems to indicate that a debugger for MSBuild projects is the #1 vNext request from you. Lot of other folks (such as here and here ) have explicitly blogged about this requirement. Over the last week...

This post is really to update my blog so that is doesn't get deleted due to massive levels of inactivity. I am also experimenting with Windows Live Writer - it totally kicks ass! Anyways getting back to the point... This particular diagram conveys pretty...

MEDC-India 2006. Thanks you for attending it. We loved talking to you and hearing from you......

Pushing SQL Server Mobile database file from a desktop application developed in VS2005 to the mobile device...

A dump of my understanding of the TypeDescriptor: A Metadata Engine for Designtime Code......

Hi Folks... I am back and it’d have been sooner if not for ELDS :( Never mind that. As many of you have already noted , with Visual Studio 2005 there have been radical changes in the way designtime code is written for .NET Desktop/CF 2.0. These changes...

Hi Folks... The other day I was investigating an issue that finally boiled down to incorrect usage of System.Reflection & System.Reflection.Emit APIs (SR & SRE hereafter) to analyze Generic types. We were using Type.IsGenericParameter instead...

Hi Folks... For a while now, I have been studying the .NET Framework Designtime Infrastructure. Not only because I now own the VSD WinForms and Data designers. But also because the design & architecture of this piece is quiet fascinating… What...

Requesting feedback on Object Test Bench from the community......

Exploring Framework APIs......

Object Test Bench – II: A User’s Manual…...

Pratap Lakshman introduces various enhancements to Visual J# 2005 and discusses themes such as, providing language level support for common programming idioms, making it easier to write better and correct code, and enabling new scenarios through enhanced security and integration....

Hi folks… As you may have seen from the various blogs and articles floating around on the internet, Visual Studio 2005 will ship with a new feature called the Object Test Bench (OTB, here after). My super cool test lead, Gopinath, suggested that I should...

Hello everyone... The entire division has been really really busy over the last few weeks! We have just about begun the final phase of the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 release. And personally I haven’t much time for anything else – totally absolutely heads...

Sometime back the following question came up on an internal discussion: "How to call method written in x lanuage from C#. In particular, I have several Java-language classes that I don't want to rewrite them in C#. How can I call them from C#. I understand...

Hi folks, this is Partho P. Das. Let me introduce myself. I am from Microsoft India Development Center , Hyderabad. I have been at Microsoft since 2 nd July, 2001 after graduating from IIT Madras . Currently I work on the Visual J# IDE team. We are a...