January 2005 - Posts

• Locking toolbars

  G. Man asked about locking toolbars in an earlier post : <question> My own personal complaint is the inability to lock toolbars. I cant tell you how often I accidentally drag a toolbar somewhere and hose up the IDE. I have to "reset window layout" Read More... Posted Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:41 AM by scottwil | 11 Comments

• Deployment issues in VS 2003 addressed (hopefully!) in VS 2005

  seer asked a question in an earlier post about deployment issues with VS 2003: <question> Why I can't create setup that install framework and MSDE? Why I must use external tools to create such setup? And please don't fix it by just adding MSDE option Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:02 PM by scottwil | 15 Comments

• Nomination for the .NET Developer's Journal Reader's Choice Award

  Our C# book ( The C# Programming Language by Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde) has been nominated for a .NET Developer's Journal Reader's Choice Award as best .NET book of 2004. Subscribers can vote on this and other categories through the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:59 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments

• Open source and quality

  A recent SD Times column by Allen Holub questions the quality and customer focus of Tomcat specifically and open source projects in general. The picture painted there is pretty bleak: Spotty documentation Condescending attitude toward non-expert users Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:09 PM by scottwil | 24 Comments

• Avalon Tech Preview

  CNet has an article today about the general availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Avalon. See the Longhorn Developer Center for details on how to get this release. It is unusual to have two "waves" of pre-release product out at the Read More... Posted Monday, January 17, 2005 11:30 AM by scottwil | 0 Comments

• Anders on virtual calls from constructors in C# and .NET

  Years ago, I had the good fortune to work with Eric Lippert on VBScript and JScript. I was a young program manager and he was an even younger developer who initially set himself apart by always wearing a white hat. Maybe the subliminal message was that Read More... Posted Friday, January 14, 2005 11:59 AM by scottwil | 27 Comments

• Developer Division LeaderSpeak

  My blog is cross-linked from the Developer Division LeaderSpeak page, which lists blogs from some of the leaders in VS and the .NET Framework. Several of the blogs there might be interesting to C# developers. There's an RSS feed for it, so you can catch Read More... Posted Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:38 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments

• New C# Development Manager

  I’m excited to announce that Steve Kruy is joining the C# team as Development Manager. Steve comes to use from Speech Server , where he played a critical role in helping ship v1 of that product. He is an excellent people manager and a passionate advocate Read More... Posted Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:28 PM by scottwil | 5 Comments

• Striving for broader perspective

  Today was the first day of a 2-day offsite with a group of senior leaders in Visual Studio, including both managers and architects. We spent a lot of time talking about our business, not just what it is today but how it could change over the next 5+ years. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:34 PM by scottwil | 3 Comments

• Anders Hejlsberg interview

  TheServerSide.net just posted an interview with Anders Hejlsberg , the Chief Designer of the C# language, as part of their series of tech talks . The format is great – you can read the transcript and click on specific questions to view video for the parts Read More... Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:46 PM by scottwil | 3 Comments

• SmartPhone vs. Paper, Round 1

  I bought a SmartPhone over the holidays, and I’m very happy with it. I’ve only had it a few weeks, but it has already helped me make some productive changes to my daily routine and organizational system. First, I unified two of my sources of contacts. Read More... Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:15 PM by scottwil | 5 Comments