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Monday, July 27, 2009 2:14 PM

All C# Compiler Developer Team blogs

With Ian Halliday , a developer on the C# Compiler team who started to blog recently, all of the C# compiler devs are blogging! Here’s the list of their blogs sorted alphabetically: Chris Burrows - http://blogs.msdn.com/cburrows/ Ian Halliday - http://blogs.msdn.com/ianhalliday/
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:40 PM

Instantiating types with no public constructors

It turns out, Activator.CreateInstance and Activator.CreateInstance<T> fail if there is no public parameterless constructor defined on a type we’re trying to instantiate. Even if the constructor is internal (basically, anything other than public),
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Monday, July 20, 2009 10:42 PM

Comparing doubles can produce unexpected results

Well, guess what, smart people learn from other people’s mistakes and Kirill learns from his own. This is actually a well-known caveat about doubles, but still a reminder about something to be aware of. A double value can be something else than you might
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:03 PM

Having Fun with the New Editor in VS 2010

I was figuring out how to test the new WPF editor through the new managed API and it suddenly occurred to me how easy it is to do things to the editor that just weren’t possible before. For example, I decided that I like my editor rotated: Why? Because
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:06 AM

Bling: a WPF Framework/Declarative Strongly-Typed DSL for Quick Expressive C# WPF Apps

Several weeks ago I met with Sean McDirmid from the Microsoft’s Research and Prototyping facility in Beijing to chat about IDE design and his recent projects. Sean is a well-known researcher with broad interests in languages, compilers, and, recently,
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Friday, July 10, 2009 12:02 PM

Silverlight 3 is out!

“Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock…” © CyrusN :) I’m very excited about Silverlight 3 which has TONS of new awesome features, from better graphics and text to out-of-browser support, style improvements and… drumroll… SaveFileDialog (finally)
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Friday, July 10, 2009 12:14 AM

http://silverlight.live.com

http://silverlight.live.com (Microsoft Silverlight Streaming) is a free service from Microsoft to host your Silverlight applications and videos. You can upload your .xap or .wmv files and reference them from any websites, blogs, etc. My favorite part
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:16 PM

Samples for the Undo Framework

I just added some samples for the Undo Framework . You can find the samples in the source code or download them from the project website. MinimalSample First is a simple Console App sample called MinimalSample. Here’s the full source code: using System;
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