Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

July 2004 - Posts

Better intellisense information

Posted Friday, July 30, 2004 2:12 PM by CyrusN
A couple of days ago I brought up the code definition window. I mentioned what purpose it was trying to serve, how some of the developers were thinking about changing it and how I thought it could be improved. In response to that, a poster mentioned that Read More...
9 Comments

Winding down

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 4:44 AM by CyrusN
I'm feeling such low energy right now. It might be because I'm awake at 4 am after only a few hours sleep, but part of me thinks it's indicative of what work is like right now. The end is nigh! Our goal is in sight, and we're pretty strict about staying Read More...
13 Comments

My name is Cy-zula

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 4:04 AM by CyrusN
The mic rula, the old-schoola; you wanna trip? i'll bring it to ya. Due to my amazing detective skills (*cough* and the fine folks who do the closed captioning at turner) I now know the words to the Aqua Team Hunger Force opening. What's even more amazing Read More...
10 Comments

Sean really wants some feedback from you!

Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:55 PM by CyrusN
Sean is thinking about making some changes to the Code Definition View (CDV). Specifically, instead of having it be a read only view of your code it would now be editable. The CDV is one of my favorite features and I've talked about a lot before. Go over Read More...
9 Comments

She dreams in digital

Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 8:13 AM by CyrusN
I just moved into my new office this morning. I'll be lonelier now without Kevin to waste time... i mean *chat* with. However, there were some benefits. In the old office I'd placed my monitor on top of my PC (note: this is a really dumb thing to do). Read More...
9 Comments

Losing yourself

Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 5:47 AM by CyrusN
Ugh. Stupid stupid Microsoft. Release a good gaming system, then release a simple way to get online and play through the Live system and watch your employee productivity plummet as they find themselves unable to move from their couch to go to nourish Read More...
6 Comments

Going to be one of *those* days

Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 6:53 AM by CyrusN
Woke up this morning feeling wonderfully rested. I looked out the window and saw that it's a gorgeous day already with clear skies in every direction. On the way to work I could see the mountains in perfect detail even more than a hundred miles away. Read More...
8 Comments

Help me, help you!

Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:49 PM by CyrusN
About a month ago I talked about the problems people have when trying to use Visual C# in conjunction with an external project system, as opposed to the project system built into Visual Studio. Currently when you try to use C# files outside of a project Read More...
15 Comments

Better information in error cases

Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 3:58 AM by CyrusN
Dr. Pizza raised an interesting point in response to the previous post about method overload resolution , specifically: “...but I would say that I hadn't realized why it didn't show completion information in some situations. Now it seems clear” Read More...
26 Comments

Question about intellisense and operators+overload resolution

Posted Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:40 PM by CyrusN
Back when I was polling on what people were interested in seeing in the next version of C#, I was interested to find out that most of the requests were related to the language itself and far fewer were about the tools. I don't think that that means that Read More...
10 Comments

Why I prefer debugging in a terminal server session

Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:27 AM by CyrusN
In my previous post concerning my copious amounts of applications that I normally have running I offhand mentioned “There are actually other reasons I TS into the same machine. Specifically, it makes debugging some things _much_ easier. I can go Read More...
9 Comments

Deep thoughts; by Cyrus Nudgemybody

Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:31 AM by CyrusN
So i've become a little depressed lately with the changes that one of my favorite radio stations C89.5 is going through. They used to be fantastic trance, house and just plain good dance station. (and, of course, by fantastic I mean they played music Read More...
8 Comments

...and it was like, bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep...

Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:40 PM by CyrusN
I got this message from the contact section of the blog, I thought it would be interesting to talk about. You've done a lot of great editorial's on your blog. I wanted to know a bit more on a topic that you might be able to help me with. Apple Computers. Read More...
44 Comments

A few of my favorite things

Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:16 AM by CyrusN
Went to see Shrek 2 with Neil. This was the second I was seeing the movie, but it was well worth it. Like the first this one was filled with humor both subtle and outrageous. I always love it when a movie pays homage to others, and this had lots. The Read More...
8 Comments

How to waste time at work

Posted Monday, July 12, 2004 8:24 AM by CyrusN
Go visit Bash . Better yet, just read Bash's Top Quotes . Intensely amusing any time you're bored and need entertainment. However, under no circumstances blog about how you waste time at work. You never know who might be reading these things. Favorite Read More...
11 Comments

Slurp!!

Posted Monday, July 12, 2004 7:50 AM by CyrusN
Sated. Satiated. Replete. Slaked. Satisfied. Content. Well, I'm full out of adjectives to describe how I feel. I had a fantastic dinner last night with friends at Brasa : Started off with a J. Vidal-Fleury 2001 Cotes du Ventoux which was wonderful, and Read More...
3 Comments

It's g-g-g-g-g-g-reat!

Posted Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:57 AM by CyrusN
Was reading /. when i came across this post : PowerDVD is by far the best DVD player for Windows I disagree. The best DVD player for Windows (and Linux) is VLC [videolan.org] It supports menus, surround sound (even DTS) and AFAIK all the other things Read More...
15 Comments

Aaaaaaah! Demon Llama!!

Posted Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:40 AM by CyrusN
I've had a couple of people ask me about the pictures in the "pictures of me" section of the page. Most people get one of them, but are quite confused on the other. I got asked if it was a dog, or a cow, or some kind of teddy bear. In actuality it's none Read More...
9 Comments

Jay, i need another monitor!!

Posted Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:15 AM by CyrusN
So in the weird way that my brain is wired, I find myself far better at managing applications when I never shut them down. Unfortunately, this ends up causing my task bar to look like this: This actually isn't too bad. What you're seeing here is when Read More...
73 Comments

Why the !@#!@@!$ can't i just download a simple installer for the C# express sku???

Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 3:57 PM by CyrusN
That's a question that I've heard a lot about recently. It's even the #2 suggestion at LadyBug . You asked, the setup team delivered. You can now get simple single file installer for all of the express skus and the components that install with them. The Read More...
1 Comments

It's strangely hypnotic

Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 7:31 AM by CyrusN
I'm extremely disturbed by what i saw at channel9 . But for some reason I just can't stop watching it. I think it's the way he says "un-de-tec-TA-ble ER-ror". Crazy... I thought my job was great, but it's clear that being a VP is where it's at. Edit: Read More...
7 Comments

Do what I mean, not what I say.

Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 5:46 AM by CyrusN
So I've been p1mping C# Express pretty actively after the announcements a while back. Part of that involved telling you about the new LadyBug system and how it would be amazingly helpful if people who take the betas, hammer on them and then report back Read More...
14 Comments

Thoughts on static import

Posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:58 AM by CyrusN
Eric has a post on why he thinks static import is bad and has garnered a lot of feedback so far. I was reading his post, and while I tend to agree that static import is bad, I do so for some slightly different reasons. One thing I agree on is that static Read More...
123 Comments

Hey Wha Happen?!

Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:31 AM by CyrusN
I while back I posted a link to an incredible session at Tech-Ed related to social engineering attacks. It was thoroughly enjoyable and I wanted everyone to get a chance to listen to it. Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication and I didn't realize Read More...
1 Comments

What can we look forward to from the Mono team in the future.

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:48 PM by CyrusN
With the new release of Mono 1.0 , I find myself very happy. But i feel that there is much work that can still be done. Hopefully pretty soon we'll be able to enjoy: version 2.0 "Stereo" version 4.0 "Quadraphonic" and version 5.0 "Surround" (soon to followed Read More...
4 Comments

Reason #1 I'm glad I didn't go to Carnegie Mellon

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:02 PM by CyrusN
The fact that they advocate something called The Cyrus Murder . From the page notes: Note that Cyrus Murder is still relatively young in the grand scheme of things . I would appreciate it if we all worked hard together to make Cyrus Murder non-existent Read More...
7 Comments

For why my tables appear like the donkey?

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:14 AM by CyrusN
So i wrote up my post on the results of the votes for new C# features and I tested out what the post would look like in a few browsers. I was pretty surprised to see how different the results were. I ended up with the table looking like this in IE: Like Read More...
13 Comments

Carrie on Wayward Son

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:11 AM by CyrusN
Watched Memento last night with Neil. Strangely enough, he'd never seen it before. Of course, I was somewhat envious of him as this meant he got to experience a fantastic movie for the first time, and that's something you can rarely (if ever) do twice. Read More...
6 Comments

Concerns about Spotlight and non-extensible types of data

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:23 AM by CyrusN
I'm watching Apple's 2004 WWDC broadcast , and I was watching the part on Spotlight (48 minutes into it) and I got somewhat worried. Jobs was pitching this as being a feature from longhorn that they were bringing to market ahead of WinFS. I was watching Read More...
25 Comments

What do you want in the next version of VS/C# (part 4)

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:33 AM by CyrusN
Ok. I tabulated the vote that came in after I asked everyone to contribute . It took a lot longer than I expected since I got a total of 667 (aren't I glad that isn't 666) votes come in. Here are the final results. Of course, I can't gaurantee anything Read More...
42 Comments

How to screw up the 4th of july.

Posted Monday, July 05, 2004 3:22 AM by CyrusN
Get a bunch of friends together Go to Gasworks Park early enough to get great seats Listen to awesome music play nonstop all afternoon long Eat some yummy food that you bought and also brought from the local vendors Drink lots and lots of bottled water Read More...
5 Comments

"Managed" vs. blow your bloody foot off!!! er.. I mean "unmanaged"

Posted Saturday, July 03, 2004 3:39 PM by CyrusN
I got a response from someone saying: "Cyrus- I've been reading your blog for about a week now, and you seem to be in touch with the programming community. I have found myself torn between MS tools and open source tools. I really, really, really like Read More...
46 Comments

New express sku installers available.

Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:23 PM by CyrusN
Annie Wang (PM on the VS Setup Team) and the rest of the setup team have worked extremely hard to fix up the problems reported during the initial download attempts of the express sku. She posted this update : “We have published the new web setup Read More...
7 Comments

Tests aren't methods!

Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:52 PM by CyrusN
In the feedback section of one of my blogs, Aaron Junod wrote : “In writing this, I just realized something. I think someone should draw a line between writing tests, and actual program code, and then offer different options based on that. They Read More...
23 Comments

Dew the do!

Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:37 AM by CyrusN
For all of you Mad Magazine "Spy vs. Spy" fans, you need to check out this site . They've done a animated 3d version (or is it live action?? I can't tell!) of it that looks fantastic. It's one of those cases where someone brought something to life in Read More...
6 Comments
 
Page view tracker