Pilchie's C# and Visual Studio Blog

Slides from my CodeMash Session

Sorry for the delay.  I took a disconnected vacation for a week after CodeMash.  Now that...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 01/24/2011

Seattle CodeCamp 2010.

Well, it's been about a year since the last time I posted.  It's a little funny that my...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 04/17/2010

I’m speaking at Seattle Code Camp this weekend.

This Saturday from 2:45-4:00 I’ll be giving a talk on “What’s coming up in VS2010 for C#...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/13/2008

Hotfix for VS2008 SP1 Available

In VS2008 SP1 our team added a significant new feature: live semantic analysis of open files (or...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 10/30/2008

CodeRush Xpress for C#

Yesterday at the PDC, Dustin announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C#.  This is a...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 10/28/2008

Removing elements from a Dictionary

The topic of removing elements from a dictionary came up recently on an internal mailing list. ...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 10/27/2008

ArgumentNullException and refactoring

I hate using strings to represent program elements!  One of the big problems is that it hinders...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 10/27/2008

Virtualization Update

Just a quick update.  After my previous post, I actually stopped using virtualization for most...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 10/27/2008

Getting on the virtualization bandwagon

Lately I've been trying to support work happening in a variety of our development branches, and...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 08/15/2008

Where has Kevin been?

I'm still here, I've just been very busy.  We're in the thick of planning out what we'd like to...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 02/14/2008

Kirill on Named Parameters

My colleague Kirill mentioned a post he had about named parameters, but I thought I would pull it up...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 12/28/2007

More on "bools, structs or enums"

There were some points about my previous post that I thought it might be worth bringing up in a new...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 12/10/2007

Coding Styles: bools, structs, or enums?

I often find myself writing or consuming API's which require the caller to specify some sort of...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/30/2007

Dogfooding Challenges Part Two: Unit Testing.

Another problem related to using VS in order to develop VS happens in the area of unit testing. The...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/29/2007

Dodfooding Challenges Part One

There are a couple of issues that come up for developers who work on Visual Studio that just aren't...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/24/2007

VS Color schemes

A friend sent me a link to Tomas Restrepo's collection of VS Color Schemes today.  I think it's...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/23/2007

Just call me Clark Griswold!

Today being Thanksgiving here in the US (it's a month late, I know, but what can you do, eh?), my...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/23/2007

Enforcing Immutability in Code

A bunch of people (Eric, Wes, Joe, etc) have been writing about the wonders of immutable data...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/20/2007

Performance issues Part Two: ???

Okay, anyone whose been holding their breath for the last 1.5 years for part two of this series, I'm...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 11/20/2007

Performance issues Part One: GetSuperType

So I said on Saturday that I would write a future post about the performance issues I've been...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 04/18/2005

Finally! VS2005 Beta2 released.

We finally got it out there. Take a look at msdn. Or, to see it from the big guy, Soma's blog....

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 04/18/2005

Winforms, TechEd, Agile2005.

It's been ages since I've posted anything here, but I'm going to try and get back into the swing of...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 04/17/2005

Monday @ Agile/XP Universe.

Not much to report for today, as I didn't have much of a chace to attend the show content. I was...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 08/16/2004

At Agile/XP Universe.

So today I arrived in Calgary for the Agile/XP Universe conference. I'm really excited to be here...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 08/15/2004

Anonymous method formatting, again.

A while back I asked for some feedback about how we should format anonymous methods. Then I was...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 08/08/2004

Looking for feedback on some formatting changes

We’re considering making two changes to the way the formatting engine works, based on feedback...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 07/09/2004

C# Editor features you can blame on me.

Now that the Express products are available, and Beta 1 is out the door, I thought I would let you...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 06/29/2004

Formatting all C# files in a solution

Formatting All Files in a Solution One of the features I’ve worked on quite a bit during...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 05/17/2004

C# and ASP.net Whidbey

It’s been a while, but now that ZBB is over, and I’ve got a little bit of time, I...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 04/30/2004

Yet another new blogger!

Hello All, My name is Kevin Pilch-Bisson. I'm a Canadian living in the US, working as a developer...

Author: Pilchie (Kevin Pilch-Bisson) Date: 01/28/2004