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Framework Design Studio Released
When I was coming back from Mix 2007, I was bored on the plane and so started to write a dev tool. What a geeky thing to do on a plane. :-) The tool allows comparing two versions of an assembly to identify API differences: API additions and removals. Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 11:10 by kcwalina | 18 Comments   
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Attachment(s): FdsUsageGuide.docx
Job Openings on the .NET Framework Core Team
We have been incubating ideas about building a simple extensibility framework for some time. Now, as plans for the next version of the .NET Framework crystallize a bit more, we decided to productize the project. As a result, we have opened a job position Read More...
Posted 14 March 08 12:49 by kcwalina | 15 Comments   
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Video Recording of "Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries"
I just received a video recording of a talk I did at the last TechEd. You can find the abstract below, and the WMV file can be downloaded from here . Hope you find it useful. [UPDATE: I attched the slides in xps format. The ppt file is 10x larger] Framework Read More...
Posted 08 January 08 10:42 by kcwalina | 6 Comments   
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Attachment(s): FrameworkEngineering.xps
What Do Swimmers Have to Say About Framework Design?
I am starting to feel pressure to finish up slides for my presentation at the upcoming TechEd in Barcelona. I will be talking about framework architecture and design. Here is the abstract I took from the conference’s site : WIN304 Framework Engineering: Read More...
Posted 04 October 07 05:09 by kcwalina | 7 Comments   
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FxCop Rule for Multi-Targeting
Two months ago, Scott blogged about the multi-targeting support in Visual Studio 2008 . I worked on this feature in the planning phase (read “long time ago”), and so I am quite thrilled to see it finally in the hands of developers. Especially, that several Read More...
Posted 02 October 07 04:50 by kcwalina | 19 Comments   
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Attachment(s): MultitargettingRules.zip
Duck Notation
I have been working with the C# and VB teams on design guidelines for LINQ. We started to talk about the so called Query Pattern , which describes what you need to do if you want a custom type to support the new query operators (select, where, group by, Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 11:20 by kcwalina | 36 Comments   
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How to Fight Complexity in Software (part I)
A couple of weeks ago, Grady Booch gave a lecture at Microsoft. It was a pleasure to hear of my software engineering heroes in person. Grady talked about “the promise, the limits, and the beauty of software.” The main thing that captured my interest during Read More...
Posted 17 July 07 04:02 by kcwalina | 0 Comments   
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FxCop Designers Honored with the Chairman's Award
Last week, during the annual Engineering Excellence week, several Microsoft engineers and managers involved in development of engineering tools and practices were presented with Engineering Excellence Awards. In addition, the principal designers of three Read More...
Posted 03 July 07 04:21 by kcwalina | 8 Comments   
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Generic Methods as Casts
Somebody just asked me which of the following API design alternatives is better. They both do what we could call “casting.” // Generic Method “Cast” var foo = someInstance.SomeMethod<IFoo>(); // Simple Cast var foo = (IFoo) someInstance.SomeMethod(); Read More...
Posted 07 June 07 10:56 by kcwalina | 3 Comments   
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Silverlight - Program the Web the Way YOU Want It
I already wrote a couple of small applications using Silverlight, and I have to say that it makes web programming natural for the first time. The platform no longer forces you to program its way, while your intuition and years of programming experience tell you to code some other way. It makes me say, for the first time in my life, that I am proud to be a web developer :-) Read More...
Posted 05 May 07 09:36 by kcwalina | 1 Comments   
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Nourishing Creativity
For those who haven’t heard about it, TED is a multidisciplinary conference for experts from technology, entertainment, and design industries. They just updated their web site and while browsing around it I found this very interesting presentation about Read More...
Posted 24 April 07 05:39 by kcwalina | 0 Comments   
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Effective Presentation Skills
I just watched a very interesting presentation . The content of the presentation is interesting, but not very relevant to the work software engineers do. The super interesting and relevant part is that it’s one of the best presentations I have ever seen Read More...
Posted 01 February 07 05:25 by kcwalina | 6 Comments   
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How to Design Exception Hierarchies
I still get a lot of questions on how to design exception hierarchies, despite several attempts to describe it in talks, the FDG book, and in posts on this blog. Maybe the guidance gets lots in the in the complexities of the full guidance surrounding Read More...
Posted 30 January 07 11:47 by kcwalina | 12 Comments   
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.NET Framework Performance Signatures
I love Rico’s performance quizzes in general, but the last one has something especially interesting: a link to a file listing all members in the Framework and their estimated performance signatures (perf characteristic based on the number of allocations Read More...
Posted 26 January 07 04:52 by kcwalina | 5 Comments   
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Clearing Enum Flags
UPDATE: It looks like I am confusing a lot of people with this article. I wanted to write an article about something else than the title suggests (how flags enum are built) but I did not explain it well and what’s more important I forgot to mention the Read More...
Posted 29 August 06 09:49 by kcwalina | 4 Comments   
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