September 2004 - Posts

Come work on C#
30 September 04 04:55 PM

I wanted to post a short note about all the different job opportunities available today in C#. We have 3 areas of focus: C# IDE (Refactoring, intellisense, etc. - what I work on) C# Compiler (command line compiler + IDE integration) Visual Studio Debugger Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio

Safely firing an event, Part 3
16 September 04 04:52 PM

Take another look at Safely firing an event . According to Grant , there’s another issue here. The JITter may optimize away locals in situations where you think want them for thread safety. So the recommendation to make a local copy is not as valuable Read More...

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Filed under: Development Practices

Won't Fix or Postponed?
16 September 04 10:42 AM

In our bug database, when resolving a bug, you have to select a “Resolution”. Obviously you can resolve as “Fixed”. Other options include: By Design - this isn’t a bug, we meant it to work this way. Not Repro - you were mistaken, this bug doesn’t exist. Read More...

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Separating out unit tests
09 September 04 02:33 PM

This question came up on a customer chat today. It’s probably interesting to a wider audience, so I’m posting it here. I'm currently doing TDD with NUnit. With the upcoming testing tools in Whidbey, how do you see the separation of tests from production Read More...

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Across the sound
06 September 04 11:12 PM

In the United States , today is Labor Day . Now that I’m a manager, I don’t labor too hard, but I took the day off anyway. We’d talked before about taking the little one on a ferry ride, but hadn’t done it yet. Today seemed like the last good chance to Read More...

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Filed under: Personal

C# Editor at a conference?
05 September 04 10:38 AM

Back in da day, I used to go to VC/VS themed conferences and talk about the debugger. Even though I wasn't a very good speaker, the talks were very well received. Lots of technical content, tips for how to be more productive with the debugger. When I Read More...

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A Factory pattern
01 September 04 02:49 PM

The idea popped in to my head, so I wrote it down. I’m not sure what it’s good for, but here it is: class C { private C() { } public static class Factory { public static C New() { return new C (); } } } class Program { static void Main ( string [] args) Read More...

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A blog break
01 September 04 02:26 PM

Earlier I talked about the challenges of shipping software . You want Whidbey, and we want to give it to you. To make that happen, we need to fix the remaining bugs & shut this product cycle down. We want to focus our attention on this work, so we're Read More...

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A man talking sense to him self...
01 September 04 10:14 AM

...is no less sane than a man talking nonsense , not to himself. The full text of the previous subtitle: It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts aquire speed. The lips aquire stain, the stain becomes Read More...

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