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Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:35 PM

DLR Hosting in Silverlight

As you probably know, DLR is the dynamic language runtime that provides a common platform for dynamic languages and scripting in .NET. Their two main languages, IronPython and IronRuby, are available to develop your programs and also to be hosted in your
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Friday, March 13, 2009 4:31 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Screencast: C# 4.0 Language + IDE + WPF Shell + Editor

It so happened that I recorded a quick 30-minutes video (screencast) showing the new features in the language and the IDE – and I did all this on a recent internal build of Visual Studio 2010, which has the WPF UI enabled. The video is very basic, I don’t
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:11 PM

Kirill’s Whitespace Guidelines for C#

I don’t remember seeing any explicit guidelines on whitespace formatting for C# programs, however it seems that experienced C# developers all format their C# code files in a very similar fashion, as if there are some implicit but widely-accepted rules.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:07 PM

A common globalization bug

I’ve just found and fixed a globalization bug in our test infrastructure where a feature of our testcase management system (resetting a testcase to re-run on a lab machine) just wouldn’t work on a Russian OS. Fortunately, the call stack was easy to investigate:
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:06 PM

How to start Visual Studio programmatically

One of the ways we test Visual Studio is by automating the devenv.exe process using a library called DTE (Design Time Extensibility). To use this library from your .NET application, you’ll need to add a reference to the EnvDTE assembly (which is usually
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