April 2005 - Posts

• C# Status: 4/25/2005

  C# status skipped a week last week. Sorry about that. Mon and Tues of last week, we had the C# Strategic Design Review (SDR), where we bring in a couple of customers from different parts of the industry and show them general ideas about where we want Read More... Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 4:02 PM by shaykatc | 4 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• C# team blogs now up on the Dev Center

  We now prop C# team member blogs on the front page of our Dev Center . This is a quick insight into the blog thoughts of our team. If you want to see more than 4 posts, go to our team blogs page here . Also, thanks to Rifat Yavuz for noticing some of Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:18 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments

• C# videos!

  Another change that occurred with the release of Whidbey Beta2 is that the C# dev center was updated as well. One of the updates was to create a page of videos about C# and related topics. We thought it would be a good idea to have one page with C# presentations Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:43 PM by shaykatc | 2 Comments

• C# Beta2 features - Intellisense completion characters.

  So how do you like Beta2 so far? One of our goals this cycle is to get your feedback early! We are already rolling towards our RTM milestone and the earlier we get feedback, the faster we can shut down the product, get it to a high quality and get it Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:10 PM by shaykatc | 8 Comments

• Wired article on Google maps

  I just read this article on Wired on google maps. The article basically states that Googles satellite maps captures unusual events - a 747 landing in Tokyo airport, a icebreaker pushing a submarine...kinda cool. I'm going to spend some time looking for Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:40 PM by shaykatc | 4 Comments

• C# Language Chat next Thursday

  Scott Nonnenberg is running another chat next Thursday. The theme is the language - come and ask your favorite questions about the language. More details are here . In general we schedule about 2 chats a month, and our attendance numbers show about 50-60 Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:32 PM by shaykatc | 0 Comments Filed under: Whidbey

• Update: C# favorite, must have tools!

  BTW - for all who suggested new tools in my old blog post , the page has been updated with your suggestions. Thank you! Your suggestions were great. I'll send out another round of requests in a month or so... Shaykat Read More... Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 5:42 PM by shaykatc | 7 Comments

• C# Status: 4/11/2004

  A number of people have asked about Beta2 and I've seen discussion about it. Im trying to figure out how much I can talk about it and in how much detail...but its close. Our team has been working hard to meet its bug goal for this week. While techinically Read More... Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 5:31 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• Java to .NET Framework migration workshop...

  We have a free online course to help Java developers migrate to .NET... Check out the workshop at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/migrate/workshop/ or read more about it at https://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2005/04/07/Brian.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:28 PM by shaykatc | 0 Comments

• C# Community reviews

  One of my responsibilities on the team is to manage our community process. In C# we put an emphasis on having our team interact with the community - external customers, MVPs, internal users etc. We find that this brings our team closer to the customer Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:39 PM by shaykatc | 4 Comments

• C# Status: 4/5/2004

  Ahh, April appears followed by a week of downpour. Hordes of my friends disappeared this weekend to the slopes of Baker and Whistler, while I decided to run and play a bunch of sports instead. April seems like a nice fresh start on the C# team. Last week, Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:00 AM by shaykatc | 8 Comments Filed under: C# Status