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Lots happened with Nullable pretty late in the game and it sure was a big effort by a bunch of people across several teams to make it happen. Check out Soma's post about the Nullable DCR and get a quick summary of how things are changing...
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This one came up today in an internal discussion alias and reminded me of how many times I've seen people get stumped on this one and end up working around it. A lot of users have used verbatim string literals as they ease writing multi-line strings literals
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We've got another C# language chat coming up tomorrow at 1pm (PACIFIC time). Scott has posted all the relevant links and schedules but here's a direct link to the actual entry for tomorrow's session . I won't be there but there will be plenty of team
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One of today's questions had to do with how static fields work in generic types in the upcoming C# 2.0 . For example, what would the output be from the following code? using System; class Gen<T> { public static int X = 0; } class Test { static void
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We once again saw a few reports of folks running into the CS1668 warning every time they used the C# compiler when we released Beta 2. For those who use the /warnaserror+ compiler option, it blocks compilation as it gets promoted to an error. To some
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Spreading the word... Next C# Chat is on 4/21 at 1pm Pacific Time. You can read all the details on Scott's post .
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If you haven't already, be sure to check out the new MSDN forums site that just went up recently. It's got a ton of different message boards and there's already plenty of activity going on. If you want to jump straight into the C# related forums, head
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We've received a couple of reports of people running into this internally and I figured it was worth posting about for anyone who searches for information on the problem. It's a very easy workaround and I think most would be able to figure it out on their
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Oh, and one more thing, it's been up since October 2003 and is very much alive and kicking today mostly thanks to a few regulars (Ryan (Kardax), AlanFo, Scouser, and co.). The C# Language Board on GotDotNet has some pretty interesting discussions on C#
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If the mixture of the word 'nullable', question marks, and C# are interesting to you then you you might want to check out the blogs of a couple of my peers: Peter (C# Compiler Dev lead) and Luca (C# Compiler PM). They've started posting on their blogs
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I just ran across Benjamin Nitschke's blog where he's keeping a daily journal (with cool screenshots and all) of his work on a new game he's working on in C#. Pretty cool and very interesting stuff. Here's a link to the first entry in the series (though
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We're having another chat in a couple of days. I'm definitely going to try to be there as will others on the team. See Scott's post for links to more details.
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Recently, I got slightly different questions from folks who weren't aware of the /define command-line compiler option in C#. The thinking was they needed to define a conditional-symbol (in specspeak) defined for their entire project and, to do so, they
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To the two readers I have that don't already read Brad's blog, be sure you check out his entry on obsoletion in the framework . We're trying to get some feedback to get a good idea of where people stand...
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We've got a few positions open on the Visual C# QA team and we're looking far and wide to find the right folks to fill them. If you're interested and feel you have the passion and skills we're looking for then I really hope we'll be hearing from you soon.
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