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For various reasons, the biggest being my desire to play around with .Text, I've moved my blog to my own server at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma following the 3 leaf model when they moved, I thought I should post this notice a couple of times.. Read More...
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Cyrus , recent addition to the C# bloggers list and poster of many posts, has been blogging extensively from TechEd... OMGTHXURGR8!!!! That's basically the message we got today concerning the work we're doing in the C# IDE for VS 2005. I ended up not Read More...
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Giving us an early peek at his TechEd 2004 talk, Eric discusses how to handle enums in your code, since they are not constrained to the list of options you define in the enum and also because they can change in ways that could break your code in the future... Read More...
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Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: What has the biggest change at Microsoft since you've been here? How do you design new features for C#? Read More...
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Check out this post from 'The Wayward WebLog' ... it is a good discussion starter for anyone who wants to chat about ORM (object-relational mapping) ... ObjectSpaces: The Devil is in the Demand I’ve coined the phrase ‘object span’ to describe the ability Read More...
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With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey (VS 2005), Scott explains how to create your first debugger visualizer: Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 Community Tech Preview ... Visualizers allow for advanced, customized Read More...
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Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment : C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases Read More...
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Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonetheless C# Featurette #2 - Inline Warning Control Another feature that we added for Whidbey is the ability to selectively disable warnings within your code. For example: #pragma warning disable Read More...
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If you haven't read much about Refactoring before, I'd suggest you check out Jay's earlier post on the subject , but he is now going into quite a bit more detail. Whidbey Refactorings: Rename Let's start by talking about Rename. I view Rename as being Read More...
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Visit his blog and offer some feedback if you want to influence his presentation... TechEd 2004 (May 23-28) Anson and I are sharing a session at Tech Ed 2004 . We'll be talking about some of the IDE features in Whidbey for C# developers. A number of members Read More...
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I've been thinking a bit about Generics lately, with the growing conclusion that I will mostly use the ones that ship in the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework, but wrapping my head around a few situations where I could see myself defining Generic classes Read More...
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If you follow Eric's blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you'll have already seen these... but if you haven't then let these three posts be just a taste of what is available over there ; Who does Microsoft talk to when they have questions? Read More...
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Shaykat , a PM on the C# Team, has been posting some great tips on VS.NET 2003 so I thought I would collect them here for your linking pleasure; Tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project! Tip #2: Macros Tip #3: View exception Read More...
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Min Kwan Park , who works in QA on the C# team (responsible for debugger features) has compiled an amazing document for troubleshooting debugging issues in Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 ... check it out here Read More...
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Gus Perez has posted the binary and source for a little utlity he has dubbed "ezClip"; Back in the 7.0 days I wrote a little tool called ezClip. It's sole purpose was to allow me to copy/paste files from one command prompt window to another. Our test Read More...
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