March 2005 - Posts

• C# Status: 3/24/2005

  Our bug counts finally dropped off in Beta2 and we hit a big 0 today. Jay has been ecstatic all day - if he could I bet he'd have one of those buttons you pin to your lapel and it would say "Ask me what our bug count in Beta2 is today!". We've had a couple Read More... Posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:09 AM by shaykatc | 2 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• C# favorite, must have tools...

  I was recently going over our MSDN developer center page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp and happened to stop by the tools page at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/tools/default.aspx I was considering how to update it, when I thought I would Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:25 PM by shaykatc | 7 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Whidbey release info

  This news.com article has info on our release plans. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+delays+tool%2C+database+updates/2100-1007_3-5628166.html?tag=nefd.top To summarize, VS 2005 & SQL 2005 are planned for the second half of the year. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:54 AM by shaykatc | 6 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Book Review: Take back your life!

  Catchy title, eh? I gotta admit, when I first saw the title, I judged the book by its cover, and thought it was going to be some awesome revolutionary, fight the man, david vs. goliath, beat the corporate rat race sort of book. Then I received a copy Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 10:10 AM by shaykatc | 2 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• MS Web based RSS aggregator...

  Just checked out the trial MS Web based aggregator at http://www.start.com/1/ . Seems kind of neat and eliminates the need for me to run a client aggregator. Another cool spot I noticed is Microsoft Sandbox - a spot where early technologies are put up. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:04 AM by shaykatc | 0 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• McCabes Cyclomatic Complexity

  This is a cool concept that Steve discussed briefly today. The discussion was around how to do code coverage effectively, and Steve brought up the idea of Mccabes cyclomatic complexity. This is basically a stat that measures the complexity of a particular Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:15 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• C# Status: 3/15/2005

  The last two weeks have been intense and this has contributed to my lack of blogging our status. Whidbey Beta2 continues its inexorable shutdown. We fixed some compiler bugs and a particularly nasty IDE crash but apart from that looked good. Our QA team Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:09 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• February Community Technology Preview is out!

  The Feb CTP just got released today. Its the Express SKU. This is a build from a source branch that we give to internal partner teams, so it should be pretty good quality. You can find it here . Again, this is express so it should be a quick install and Read More... Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:15 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Recruiting in C# land

  I saw Erics post on recruiting in Movie Maker and felt the need to blog about our efforts in C# to recruit good people. We take this very seriously - good teams are an important ingredient in the making of good products. Our management prioritize recruiting Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:01 PM by shaykatc | 8 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Gmail invites - perhaps time to blog a question

  So I use gmail. Its a nice email service - I like the autocomplete on address feature, but still not to sure about the sorting and the multiple steps to trash messages. Plus I just read an article on Gmail at http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html which Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:16 PM by shaykatc | 10 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Customer question and a new release

  First off - the new release. Vs7.0 SP1 is out. This is the SP for VS2002. It bundles a ton of QFE's into it, plus security fixes. Man, we are happy to see this go. The security fixes on our end were difficult for us to do and its great to see this go Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:07 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: Whidbey