March 2004 - Posts
Mice (the furry kind), hello cable - goodbye dsl, splinter cell pandora tomorrow, etc.
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I wrote the code snippet tool using Everett (VS7.1). At one point, I struggled for a bit with a typo I had made. Here's a simplified version of the code I had: if (someMethodThatReturnsABool()); return; What got me was the semicolon at the end of the
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I made it my weekend project to hack up an editor for code snippet files. If you don't know what code snippets are, you should check out these two entries by Shaykat and Anson . Shaykat provides a good overview of them in general and Anson touches on
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Check out this page for detailed steps on how to get remote debugging working after you've upgraded to XP SP2.
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Thanks to all who joined us in the C# & Unit Testing chat today. It was fun and we'll try to do it again soon. For those who weren't able to make it, you should be able to see a transcript of it over on this site sometime soon. One of the questions
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I'm posting an old utility I wrote back in 2001 that displays your system's uptime transparently on your desktop in response to a request made by Joku in my comments section . It's a C++ Win32 app, so no C# love happening on this one. Here's a now ancient
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Before joining Microsoft, I was a developer at a call center and consulting company in Miami. I was developing applications used by the phone reps (or TSRs) used to take fullfillment orders for some of the big cruise lines such as Princess, Royal Caribbean,
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I've moved over a couple more of the apps from my old site that I've hacked up over time. RightSideUp is an app that automatically rotates images based on the orientation in their EXIF data. Space Invaders is another clone of the classic game. Source
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Scott's post reminded me of the upcoming chat I got an invite for a few days ago. It's happening next Thursday and the topic is C# and unit testing. You can get more details on this page . I'm looking forward to it even more now as, according to Scott,
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Tomorrow, my first meeting is at 10am and the last one is scheduled to end at 4pm. I'd say there's at least a 50% chance that at least the 4-5 slot or 5-6 slot will be taken up at some point tomorrow as well, if not both. The only empty slot is from 10:30am-11am.
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My vocabulary consists of about 100 words in total (and that includes not-quite-words such as “uh“ and “eh“ and several not-so-good but very multi-purpose words). It's definitely pretty limited and has never been one of my strong
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Anson used to be the C# Compiler PM and has now been working on the Visual C# IDE team for a while. He's joined the blogging world . I definitely recommend subscribing...
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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 tree can get pretty deep directory-wise and having to provide full paths to 'copy' was
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The list of C# team bloggers is now being maintained by Charlie Calvert. You can see his (much more up to date) page by following this link .
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I've moved over a few of the recent entries I made on the old blog as I plan on posting follow-ups to them at some point. Three of them I added as articles: Testing the C# Compiler #1 Testing the C# Compiler #2 Inline Warning Control I also went ahead
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Paul Dietz commented on one of my posts about testing the compiler asking whether we do any "random testing" of the compiler. I also really appreciate the links he included to a couple of very interesting papers on the same subject. The first article
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Yesterday marked the first, and quite possibly last, acting job (unpaid) I've ever had. A friend of ours, Prashant, is a product manager at MS (used to be the C# product manager actually) who has for a long time now worked on movie scripts on the side.
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A friend just pointed out to me that I should probably write up a quick intro post since the people running across the new blog may not have been familiar with my old blog . So here it is: I'm the lead for the C# Compiler QA team in the Visual C# group.
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Goodbye Movable Type, hello .Text (and Scott ). My old blog will be stopped after my next post to it which will mention my move over to .Text and the blogs.msdn.com gang. Moving weblogs is not fun but I'm pretty convinced it's worth doing at this time.
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