G. Man asked about locking toolbars in an earlier post : <question> My own personal complaint is the inability to lock toolbars. I cant tell you how often I accidentally drag a toolbar somewhere and hose up the IDE. I have to "reset window layout...

seer asked a question in an earlier post about deployment issues with VS 2003: <question> Why I can't create setup that install framework and MSDE? Why I must use external tools to create such setup? And please don't fix it by just adding MSDE option...

Our C# book ( The C# Programming Language by Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde) has been nominated for a .NET Developer's Journal Reader's Choice Award as best .NET book of 2004. Subscribers can vote on this and other categories through the...

A recent SD Times column by Allen Holub questions the quality and customer focus of Tomcat specifically and open source projects in general. The picture painted there is pretty bleak: Spotty documentation Condescending attitude toward non-expert users...

CNet has an article today about the general availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Avalon. See the Longhorn Developer Center for details on how to get this release. It is unusual to have two "waves" of pre-release product out at the...

Years ago, I had the good fortune to work with Eric Lippert on VBScript and JScript. I was a young program manager and he was an even younger developer who initially set himself apart by always wearing a white hat. Maybe the subliminal message was that...

My blog is cross-linked from the Developer Division LeaderSpeak page, which lists blogs from some of the leaders in VS and the .NET Framework. Several of the blogs there might be interesting to C# developers. There's an RSS feed for it, so you can catch...

I’m excited to announce that Steve Kruy is joining the C# team as Development Manager. Steve comes to use from Speech Server , where he played a critical role in helping ship v1 of that product. He is an excellent people manager and a passionate advocate...

Today was the first day of a 2-day offsite with a group of senior leaders in Visual Studio, including both managers and architects. We spent a lot of time talking about our business, not just what it is today but how it could change over the next 5+ years...

TheServerSide.net just posted an interview with Anders Hejlsberg , the Chief Designer of the C# language, as part of their series of tech talks . The format is great – you can read the transcript and click on specific questions to view video for the parts...

I bought a SmartPhone over the holidays, and I’m very happy with it. I’ve only had it a few weeks, but it has already helped me make some productive changes to my daily routine and organizational system. First, I unified two of my sources of contacts...