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Friday, July 27, 2007 2:53 PM

68+ "Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 is released" blog entries in 24 hours.

I just counted 68 blog entries on http://blogs.msdn.com posted within the last 24 hours with a title like "Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is released". I doubt I have anything new to add beyond Soma's post and what the other 68 already said. Brian Harry has
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:00 PM

Developing Live Writer PlugIns with Edit-and-Continue

I was playing around with Live Writer's (WLW) PlugIn API and am really impressed. It's clean, hassle-free, and very easy to write an PlugIn, and WLW appears to export a good set of services for plugins to consume. (Check out the WLW PlugIn gallery for
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:21 AM

There are things worse than crashing

It's annoying when an application crashes, but there are worse things. In my opinion, for end-user applications (and not mission critical apps) : - The best thing is for the program to just work as expected . - a crash is better than data-corruption :
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:06 PM

Safety by Accident

The oxymoron "safety by accident" came up in a conversation. It sounded very natural in context when we first mentioned it, and then we stopped for a second and realized it was kind of silly. The idea was that some code was flawed, but some unrelated
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:10 PM

A 30x speed improvement

Going from 8 minutes down to 15 seconds. Not bad. What's the secret? Synchronizing the traffic lights. I'm talking about my evening commute home. There are a set of 4 traffic lights I hit to get out of my Microsoft building and onto the closest highway
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:00 AM

JScript vs. Nintendo DS

You've probably seen (C# + Silverlight 1.1) clobbering JScript at Chess in the Silverlight Chess demo . The Nintendo DS has a chess program, Clubhouse Games , which isn't very good, as I mentioned earlier here . So then I wondered who would win at chess:
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:00 AM

Debugger and Versioning link fest

I've had enough "Debugger + Versioning" posts to go back and create a versioning category. The general overview: Managed Debugging Versioning . This provides the ground rules and key concepts for how managed debugging versioning works. Implications of
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:00 AM

What can I use to debug VC2002 Managed C++ apps?

Debugging MC++ apps from VC2002 with VS2005 came up in the comments here . In the ideal world, Whidbey works great and everybody is upgraded to Whidbey (VS2005) and so nobody is still interested in VC2002. In our broken and fallen world, these ideals
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:26 PM

Which is worse?

I noticed something that was very stupid (for purposes of this post, it doesn't matter what exactly that thing was). A coworker asked me "Do you think it was done by accident?" I figure either way, it's bad. If yes, this stupid thing was done by accident,
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