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Wow, it's been about a year and a half since I posted on this blog and I've recently been pinged a few times by folks wondering what I've been up to so I figured it was worth checking in. About a month or so after my previous post (soon after shipping
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Vijay has started blogging . Note that he's had a blog for a while now (Jan 2004) but he's now actually adding entries. :) Head over to his blog and read up on some of his great work and background testing Whidbey's C# Edit-N-Continue feature. Good stuff
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You can get the latest version of Snippy from GotDotNet . There is a beta 2 version as well as one based on the latest RTM RC so most people should be covered.
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Turns out Snippy has had a growing set of users over time which have been emailing me quite a bit recently inquiring about future updates. I haven't been able to work on it for a while but I have now found it a new home. Some of the good folks on the
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Got a chance to code some today and I finally got around to getting Hovervue all packaged up and usable by anyone who's interested. You can get the full scoop on my personal blog . You can also see screenshots here which are pretty self-explanatory as
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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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Today, I realized it had been a lot longer than I thought since I last posted on this blog. It's actually been over three months which just isn't all that cool. I haven't even been posting much on my personal blog which I used to keep at least somewhat
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Rusty , my manager, seems to have started blogging again and I'd missed it so far. He's got some interesting posts so far. Here's a link to his latest on how it's going with the MSDN Feedback site and how the community bug reports and suggestions compare
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Pete, our "box" QA guy, has started a blog where he plans on covering C#, testing, and plane-building. His first work-related post talks about QA signoffs and has plenty of info on how things get done. His first plane-building post is also very interesting.
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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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