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Friday, April 30, 2004 11:31 AM

Gunnerson's rule of the internet

No matter how strange or bizarre a hobby, there is always a web page devoted to it. Presented for your enjoyment: example #231 . Make sure you look at the embedded picture below.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:55 PM

Jay and Properties...

Jay wrote a post entitled Properties? Not my bag, baby. When I first started writing C# code, I used properties for everything. But recently, I've felt that I was wasting a lot of time writing trivial properties. Yes, I know that in Whidbey I'll be able
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:09 PM

Video killed the blogging star...

Or at least it may. Take a look at this and this .
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:17 PM

Rico writes on improving .NET application performance and security

Rico writes an interesting forward . I mention it for 3 reasons: Rico generally writes good stuff I agree with him Rico respects my talents, in that he was one of my original interviewers at Microsoft many years ago and didn't say that he would quit if
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:01 PM

Things I wish were better...

A while back, I wrote the following in a post: I continue to be satisfied about the design of C#, but even in our second version, there are a couple of cases in the past few months where we've said, "Well, if we'd been thinking about that when we first
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:44 PM

Property or backing store from inside a class?

Josh writes, If you've implemented a public property for a private field and you're modifying the field from with-in the class, is it best to use the property, or modify the field directly. For example: class Foo { private object _Bar; public object Bar
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Friday, April 23, 2004 11:38 AM

Who are the best C# bloggers?

I'd like to create a list of the best C# bloggers, primarily those outside of Microsoft. Please comment with your choice, and I'll do another post with the full list.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:05 AM

const methods

My number one biggest desire in C#, or complaint (if you choose)... Are we ever going to see const methods, objects and properties? I'm one of those who basically think languages we should actually be delimiting non-const items, and having everything
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:03 AM

Compiler information as part of code.

*** #ClassName : gives you the name of the current class Often I setup loggers and stuff, and always do something like: class blah static Logger Log = new Logger( "blah"); what I'd like to do is have a context aware statement that got built at compile
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:02 AM

Inherited constructors

*** inherited constructors This is a pet complaint of mine - I've never understood why you can't inherit constructors. People put forth all sorts of arguments against it, but to my mind, they can all be removed by one simple rule: any derived class inherits
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:59 AM

Attributes that take parameterinfo or methodinfo

*** typeof( x.y ) gives you propertyInfo/MethodInfo We are making all sorts of cool framework things, using reflection and attributes. They are all great, but we've found a few places where we want to specify properties/methods in other classes, as arguments
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:58 AM

Allow using up to the object level.

Darren sent me a few questions. Normally, I'd put these in the C# FAQ, but I've decided to answer them here for now. They may migrate to the FAQ in time. *** allow "using" up to the object level I use VB sometimes, and one of the things I really love
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:54 PM

RAII and C#

Daniel wrote: I've been reading your blog for quite some time, and, while I love C#, I never understood why it doesn't support RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization). You know, in C++ you can acquire some resource (a handle, a file, a connection)
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:49 PM

PInvoke.Net

If you've ever wished you could find a P/Invoke definition for a Win32 function, you'll like this site .
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:11 PM

Poser update

A few updates on the results of my “poser” post. First, anybody who said “anybody who coded that deserves whatever they get” is absolutely correct, but gets no points because that wasn't the answer we were looking for. I thought
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Monday, April 19, 2004 3:04 PM

Two posers for you

What is the output of the following code, and why? [Update: By “why“, I mean “what part of the C# spec controls this behavior?“] class Test { public static void Main() { int z = 2; z += ++z+5*z++; System.Console.WriteLine("Yak!
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Monday, April 19, 2004 12:54 PM

More on ZBB

Shaykat talks about ZBB
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:36 PM

Efficiency of iteration over arrays?

I got the following question on email: Question: Which one of these three loops is the most efficient? How can I prove the answer? I've listed the source code below. The three loops are: Foreach over an int array Simple for over an int array For over
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:13 PM

I'm a winner!

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Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:53 PM

"Close to being Released"...

Scott wrote in reference to something I said ... A year away is “close to Whidbey being released”? Well, yes. My meaning was inteded to be “close to released for Beta”, but in terms of the final functionality that we'll deliver,
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 PM

Win32 to .NET Cross Reference

I haven't seen this referenced before: Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API MapMicrosoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:21 PM

Taking it to the next level...

Josh writes: I've been working professionally with C# for about 2 years now and am just blown away by the things I can do with it. Lately though, I've felt like I've plateaud at this beginner to intermediate level. Every book I look at is either "Hello,
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:57 AM

Signs of the times...

A great link from Brad
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:28 AM

Unsafe and reading from files

Einar wrote (long ago), In the article you wrote on unsafe image processing, you announced a follow-up that would "cover some more unsafe scenarios, including dealing with existing structures on disk". But then I guess something came up, and that article
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:06 AM

C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes

Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases - System.Math is a canonical example - that are merely collections of static methods. Since it's useless to create an instance of such a class, in current versions of C#, you
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:59 AM

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

I got this reference from http://www.theserverside.net , but since they require login to get to the link, I'll instead refer you to the book page I took a look one of the sample chapters , and I thought it looked pretty good, except for the fact that
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Monday, April 12, 2004 9:53 PM

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 135 // Disable warning CS135 in this block #pragma warning restore 135
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:33 PM

More on MVP Summit

Pablo asks, Is this the sort of range of discussions that would be included on something like Channel 9? ... and I decided that I should talk a little bit more about what goes on at an MVP summit, especially since I'm a bit more coherant today than I
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:44 PM

C# MVP Feedback session

On Tuesday night, I spent a bit of time at the MVP party (good company, not a great party), and then went home to work on slides. Scott had gathered some MVP feedback, and it was my job to condense it into some summary slides to drive the discussion.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:46 AM

Term of the day: Inbox Camping

Inbox Camping Process of repeatedly checking your email to see if there is something new to check up on. Especially common as a task-avoidance behavior, and enabled by Outlooks “new post” popup.
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Monday, April 05, 2004 9:19 PM

Extreme Programming Chat

Jay mentions that Ron Jeffries is doing an Extreme Programming Chat
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Monday, April 05, 2004 10:48 AM

MVPs are here!

The Microsoft MVP Global Summit started yesterday. I had hoped to make it to the opening party last night, but the combination of 22K vertical feet of skiing on Saturday, daylight savings, and a dinner with my mother last night meant I couldn't make it.
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:41 AM

My presentation today

This morning I presented at a community review for my manager, my second level, my third level, and my fourth level (one of the MS VPs). The review is about how our division is doing on community overall, and I owned talking about some of the things that
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:34 AM

How a bug becomes a fix...

Anonymous Corporate Coder wrote a comment on my ZBB post, asking what set of bugs ZBB relates to. I started to update that post, but it quickly expanded, so I've decided to write a separate post. We're organized around a milestone approach. Some milestones
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:12 AM

A new career choice

Let's see: Never been convicted of a felony US born 40 years or older Resident for the last 40 years. I can run for president! ... Darn. I just checked Wikipedia , and found out that you only have to be 35. I've been wasting the last 5 years.
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Friday, April 02, 2004 11:09 AM

I'm 28 today...

On my post about “particular boats and funicular goats”, Steve properly surmized that it was birthday related. It comes from the groundbreaking Dr. Suess book “ Happy Birthday to You ”, which I think is Geisel at his best. Long
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:27 PM

Acronym of the day: ZBB

ZBB = Zero Bug Bounce As we start moving from the writing code phase into the fixing bugs phase, the development teams start pushing towards zero bug bounce. If you've noticed that the number of blog posts from the C# team has down a bit recently, that's
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:00 PM

User focus on the C# Language Design Team

Rick writes an interesting article Rick is a really sharp guy who became a usability engineer by an interesting journey (which he should blog about sometime - hint hint). He has an innate feel for how people relate not only to computers but in other situations.
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:01 AM

I Love this

From /. http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/
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