February 2004 - Posts

• VS 2003 Tip #4: Demo better with the toolbox and task list

  Two quick simple techniques for people who need to demo code (as I wait for the traffic in front of my house to recede before getting to work). Oftentimes, you want to demo some code quickly to people and don't want to type it all in. The Toolbox window Read More... Posted Friday, February 27, 2004 9:19 AM by shaykatc | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2003 Tips

• Code snippets in Whidbey

  One of the other hats I wear on the team, is looking after our samples story. We are looking at our story for code expansions right now. A code expansion simply put is a file that you author with some code in it. You can add it to a folder or folders Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:20 PM by shaykatc | 24 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• VS 2003 Tip #3: View exception information with $exception

  Every now and then a feature gets put into the product that just gives you this tickle of excitement every time you think about it. $exception I find is one of those features. Ok - so what scenario would I use it in? Lets say you're writing some managed Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 11:07 AM by shaykatc | 18 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2003 Tips

• VS 2003 Tip #2: Macros

  Vs 2003 allows you to write macros that can automate the IDE. You can acess these through the Macro Explorer - just go to View->Other windows->Macro Explorer and look through the Macros already present there. You'll see we provide a set of sample Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:56 AM by shaykatc | 22 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2003 Tips

• Release Program Managers in Visual Studio

  On the C# team, I'm a Release Program Manager aka the “Box” PM. Release PM's are different from feature PM's in that they dont focus exclusively on a technology area (such as the debugger, compiler, IDE etc). They have a more global scope Read More... Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 3:37 PM by shaykatc | 0 Comments Filed under: C# Team

• Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!

  A quick note on why I blog about Visual Studio 2003 aka Everett - Its a released product so devs are probably interested in knowing its power features and tips and tricks. I was heavily involved in getting it released for the C# team, so I have a somewhat Read More... Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 2:57 PM by shaykatc | 13 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2003 Tips

• Houston, we have another blog liftoff!

  Hi I'm Shaykat and I work on the C# team. Some quick intro stuff/what I plan to post on etc... I'm a Program Manager on the C# team. I'm slightly unusual as far as a PM goes around here - I'm the release PM on the C# team (as opposed to the feature PM's) Read More... Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 1:33 PM by shaykatc | 4 Comments