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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Timebomb/Expiration Date

Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:53 PM by danielfe
Since lots of people are curious about this, Dan Conley responded to an email from a customer and said that I could publish this publicly. VS 2005 Beta 1 timebomb date = July 1, 2005 Read More...
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Using Class Designer & OTB to better understand the .NET Framework

Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:23 PM by danielfe
For those of you who don't know, Class Designer (CD) is a Visual Studio 2005 feature that lets you visually design/model your data types. You can use CD to design custom .NET classes and it can be also used to better understand and navigate an existing Read More...
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Most complex data structure ever?

Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:57 AM by danielfe
Reader Question : What's the most complex data structure you've ever run into or had to program against? My personal one was the " Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization " (you can download it if you're bored) which is a monster DTD that Read More...
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Amusing job "requirements"

Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:24 AM by danielfe
Edit: Our CRM team says this job posting doesn't belong to them I got sent this recently from a Microsoft SDE position (Job ID: 124984) ....The candidate must have 4+ years of commercial development experience in following areas: .NET Framework, ASP.NET Read More...
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Object Test Bench (VS 2005)

Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:41 PM by danielfe
Object Test Bench is a new Visual Studio 2005 feature that helps you understand objects at Design Time, rather then runtime. How many times have you walked up to a code base and created some simple test console/Windows/web applications just to run a couple Read More...
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UK Times Google Telephone Service

Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 7:42 AM by danielfe
Taken from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1454225,00.html Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT By Elizabeth Judge, Telecoms Correspondent GOOGLE revolutionised the internet. Now it is hoping to do the same with our phones. The Read More...
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Response to Mini-MSFT on cutting Microsoft sales force

Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:56 AM by danielfe
Mini-Microsoft is a blog dedicated to reducing Microsoft employee headcount: "Let's slim down Microsoft into a lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine! Mini-Microsoft, Mini-Microsoft, lean-and-mean!" I wanted to give my personal Read More...
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More Music for Developers!

Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 11:51 AM by danielfe
DJ Bolivia , whom I blogged about earlier , has released the final volume of the three part series Music To Code By . "Exception Handler" (Music To Code By, Volume 3 of 3) 60 minutes of Progressive/Tribal House Download the MP3 or listen to the stream Read More...
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Your Opinion Wanted: Master Pages

Posted Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:33 PM by danielfe
Brian Goldfarb wants to know what the best way to create master page templates for you is. Let him know what you think Read More...
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VS 2005 Code Snippets for WSDL

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 6:00 PM by danielfe
[Aside: Can you tell I'm cleaning out my blog queue? I'm on a productivity rampage, only 46 more entries to go. Some posts I can delete, b/c frankly they are outdated ex: Who are you going to vote for this November? Happy Halloween! etc] Don Box uses Read More...
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Scott Wiltamuth is blogging

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 9:57 AM by danielfe
Scott Wiltamuth, the Product Unit Manager of the C# team and one of the designers of the C# language has started a blog (after some gentle nudging from yours truly). Subscribed! Read More...
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Overview of Visual C# 2005 Features

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 9:53 AM by danielfe
It took a small miracle to get this up (you don't want to know), but please cruise through the Overview of Visual C# 2005 (by Patrick Barnes ). You may even find some features you didn't even know existed, like: Nullable Types Code Definition View Object Read More...
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Russian Dolls and Google Image mods

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 9:45 AM by danielfe
Thank you Chris Sells :) In his post, Chris asks whether all of the features shown in this demo will work in the other Visual Studio products. The answer is yes . The way we've thought of our products for Visual Studio 2005 is that it's a Russian doll Read More...
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Update: Generics and CLS Compliance

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 9:32 AM by danielfe
For those of you who missed this, the BCL Team officially announced that Generics for the .NET Framework 2.0 will be CLS compliant . This is awesome :) I've also updated my previous post on the subject Read More...
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Framework vs Tool

Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 9:24 AM by danielfe
This handy Channel9 post shows how you can create XML Web services using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 1 . I have gotten questions like this and I wanted to explain the difference between Framework support and tool support. C# Express has full access Read More...
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Anders Hejlsberg on TheServerSide.net

Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:52 AM by danielfe
For those of you who haven't seen this, TheServerSide.NET interviewed Anders Hejlsberg , chief designer of the C# language. If you're interested in the design of the C# language, untyped versus typed languages and C# futures, you'll definitely want to Read More...
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Restart

Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:40 AM by danielfe
Happy holidays to all, I'm back from a well-rested vacation and looking forward to taking on the new year. As usual, I made the same empty promises, lose weight, eat healthier, blog more, etc. We'll see how I hold up. (Much) More importantly, my condolences Read More...
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