Building Solutions

File this one under "I had no idea so I best share what I learned." Over a couple of days during the past two weeks I have been working with a customer to isolate a memory leak in a ATL/C++ application. This particular customer application leverages the Read More...

Today the customer asked me a simple question. And sometimes it is simple requests that wind up with involved answers. How can I decimal align floating-point output in C#? Which basically means "right align" in our instance. The customer is a seasoned Read More...

Today is the second presentation of the Anders Hejlsberg discussion on C# 3.0. This is a presentation I wanted to attend twice just to take it all in. It's in a smaller room today, but is also being broadcast into two overflow rooms. The coordinators Read More...

Jim Allichin announced the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework this morning. Anders Hejlsberg and Don Box performed a great demo of this technology. LINQ basically provides the the ability to query any array or collection of objects in managed Read More...

This posting will be a "living document". I will update with relevant notes during the day today and tonight. I may flush out individual bullet points in greater detail. This afternoon I attended sessions on: High Performance Computing with the Windows Read More...

[edited for missed formatting errors and adding PDC2005 category - oops!] NOTE: You can watch the BillG PDC 2005 keynote online . [Sept 14 6:19pm PDT - Original Post Sept 13] Bill Gates launched the keynote for PDC 2005. Highlights include: Joked about Read More...