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Monday, May 03, 2004 10:38 AM

More on Compiler Error Messages (and their text)

I wish we had more UE (User Education for those not familiar with Microsoft acronyms) interaction when writing error messages. Usually, it is just a one or more devs that try and write some English (but remember we're CS or EE majors, not English or communications)
Posted by grantri | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:39 AM

A good author writes better than a good developer

So here's a recent MSDN article that I actually had the chance of reviewing several months ago. They've done a much better job at capturing the good new stuff in C# than I could ever do. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/05/c20/default.aspx
Posted by grantri | 2 Comments
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:58 AM

Warning Levels

It's not documented very well, but the C# compiler actually has 4 levels of warnings. I like to think of them this way: Level 1 - These warnings are cases the compiler is 99.9% sure you did something wrong, but the code is syntactically and semantically
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Friday, March 12, 2004 2:24 PM

Error Number Trivia

Have you ever wondered how we come up with the error and warning numbers? Well if you've looked at the SSCLI source for the C# compiler, you'll see that we use a file full of macros to define the error numbers, their severity, and the resource ID that
Posted by grantri | 3 Comments
Monday, March 01, 2004 10:46 AM

Compiler Error Messages Clarification

First of all, I am not acutally talking about decreasing or removing any errors (unless somebody can prove that a given error is a total duplicate of another one, but I seriously doubt that). I'm really talking about how big an error message can be before
Posted by grantri | 0 Comments
Friday, February 27, 2004 4:30 PM

Compiler Error Messages

I've spent a fair amount of time lately tweaking the C# compiler's error messages. At some point I begin to wonder, how clearly do we have to spell things out for end users? There are at least 2 dozen different error messages that could be summarized
Posted by grantri | 19 Comments
 
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