January 2005 - Posts

Cutting "crashdump" support from the Visual Studio Debugger
31 January 05 12:24 PM

Scott writes about the proposal to cut crashdump support . Let him know what you think. Personally, I think we should be much more aggressive with culling features, as we also add new ones. You end up with a cleaner product that is a better fit. Read More...

Postedby jaybaz_MS | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Studio

What I'm doing these days
28 January 05 01:52 PM

Gee, this blog has been pretty quiet. Why? Could I have lost interest in the connection with all the C# developers in the world? No! My responsibilities have drifted somewhat, to areas that make less sense to blog about. Dev Lead I'm the development lead Read More...

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Filed under: Development Practices, Visual Studio

Thoughts on bit fields.
11 January 05 09:09 AM

In C there is a long tradition of using bit fields to store a collection of boolean values: enum { TF_KEYWORD = 0x0001, TF_MEMBER = 0x0002, TF_IDENTIFIER = 0x0004, TF_STRINGLITERAL = 0x0008, TF_CHARACTERLITERAL = 0x0010, } TOKENFLAGS; DWORD dwTokenFlags Read More...

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Filed under: Development Practices, Refactoring