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Some guidelines for readable F# code

When learning a new programming language it isn’t enough to know the syntax, you must also take the time to learn the idioms and styles for the language. Unfortunately those idioms and styles develop over years and F# still hasn’t had its ‘official v1'.0’
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Improving current approaches of testing

A while ago I said that a professional tester should split his or her time to testing the product and thinking about how to improve upon the current approaches for testing. Now that Orcas Beta1 is out the emphasis for many testers is on running and re-running

Interactions between objects - Attributes and Interfaces

One of the greatest features of NetHack was the ability to achieve a rich interaction between objects. · What happens if you use a candle on a scroll? It should start on fire. · What if you throw a potion on the ground? The potion shatters. · What if
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Unleash the power of .NetHack!

I'd like to throw out some of the ideas I had for developing a .NetHack (dot-NetHack) like game, but not just any old clone. A clone which takes full advantage of the power and flexability of .Net.

Who listens to the blogosphere?

Who listens to the blogosphere? The question sounds simple enough, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to arrive at a conclusion. People talk about ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘The rise of the bloggers’ quite often, but seriously - who cares? And to be clear, I don’t mean to discount the value of blogs but I do want to understand who values blogs so highly andy why.
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Finding Great Developers

I'd like to highlight a particularly insightful 'Joel on Software' article.
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Directory crawling in VB.NET

VB.Net code snippet for a class to crawl through a directory structure, capable of being called from a For Each loop.
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Attachment(s): DirectoryCrawler.vb.txt

Do you use Web References?

Call for feedback: Do you use the Add Web Reference dialog in VS? What do you think about us removing the Internet Explorer control?

How do I become a VP in five years and retire in 10?

Why don't more Vice Presidents come from Test at Microsoft?

LINQ CTP release

New Linq CTP is available, check it out!

And so it begins - any suggestions on where to start?

The Visual Studio tooling support for Indigo is starting up. We will be regularly releasing our bits via CTP, what features would you like to see sooner rather than later to provide your feedback?

Leave no documents behind!

Formalized documents make no impact on the product you are creating and as such should be avoided wherever possible. Consider yourself a software factory. Anything you make or do that isn't related to churning out software should be considered waste.

Bootstrapper SDK

Plan for a Bootstrapper custom package SDK.

Test Driven Development and VSTS

Team Builds feature of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Summary results file for VSTS Generic Tests

I provided steps on generating an object model from the VSTS Summary Results schema for use with Generic Tests.
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