So after almost 5.5 years I was puttering around today, enjoying my weekend when I was reminded that I have content here that I've authored, and haven't touched for ages. Really, eons, even! I never officially said "goodbye" but anyone could probably...

In case you haven't heard (or even if you have, IMHO this could never be spread too fast), .NET Framework 2.0 is out. This is a major improvement over the 1.1 Framework in terms of stability, and overall offerings including the ever-so-important generics...

One of the things that I've been working on to help finish Whidbey, are the new refactoring features. However, I've recently found myself questioning the design for "Find All References", in regards to its handling of interface members. I discovered this...

Last Friday, I blogged about confusion between the terms "value" and "reference", when relating to .NET development. The post can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/theoy/archive/2005/06/24/ValueRef.aspx This time, I'm continuing the discussion...

While talking to someone yesterday, I witnessed yet another instance of "value" versus "reference" confusion. What do I mean? This is particularly confusing in .NET, because of some probably mistaken jargon choices on Microsoft's behalf. Commonly in ...

A reader wrote me just now: Hi, I just came across your blog and seeing that you're mentioning random thoughs on .NET, I was hoping you'd be able to answer this question: Is there any real difference to coding in VB or in C# when it comes to...

So after a super long hiatus, I've finally admitted that I'll end up posting far too infrequently if I restrict myself to writing a purely technical column. I mean, for technical posts, there's a lot of vetting that I put myself through in order to be...

Some personal news: I've recently accepted an offer to develop for the C# IDE team (exact switch-date TBD). This would have me working on the same dev team with some of your likely familiar bloggers: Cyrus: http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/ Kevin: http:/...

For those who haven't gotten their hands on an Windows XPSP2 CD, new .NET Framework SP's are now available, for versions 1.0 and 1.1 (the first version of 2.0, or "Whidbey" is still yet to be released). Here are the links to Microsoft's download center...

Ok, so I lied: I'm not moving on to unions quite yet. Cyrus brought up a great point on the last post about .NET serialization, as well as the lack of thread safety in my third example. Due to the shared nature of singletons, I have to agree that thread...

In the beginning, there was... the singleton . Everything's got to start somewhere. Just like there's only one object type to “rule them all”, the singleton represents cases where there's only one. A pair of examples are the TextWriter...

Quick detour (not so much of a detour). Cyrus has challenged me to 48 hours in order to expound on how he could've written is IOptional<T> better. Actually, I started to explain some of my suggestions, but now he's imposed this limit , since...

Greetings online visitors! So yes, this is yet another online blog, in fact a [hopefully] technical blog. Fittingly, I should do a bit of a self-introduction to at least establish some history. So, to start off “professionally”, I'm...