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• Googles desktop sidebar and email panel

  So I downloaded the desktop sidebar and I like the email panel a lot. However I wish it had better integration with Outlook - in that it could actually delete emails from outlook and could do a multi-select delete. Anyone know how it works? I believe Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:35 AM by shaykatc | 2 Comments

• Our sessions at the PDC

  In case you didnt see it, Luca has posted on our PDC sessions. Lots of cool new language stuff... http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2005/07/14/438824.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:50 AM by shaykatc | 0 Comments

• Compatibility competition!

  We are holding a compatibility competition, to get the last couple of bugs out of the product before it ships! Compatibility for our customers is one of our top priorities for this release – we'd like to make sure your experience on the new runtime and Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 1:46 PM by shaykatc | 3 Comments

• Ipod candy

  I've resisted the urge to get an Ipod for so long, but this nearly made me change my mind. I'm hovering dangerously on the edge here... Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:38 PM by shaykatc | 5 Comments

• Card Game Starter Kit aka "Play more Blackjack" released!

  We just released the Card Game starter kit, a new starter kit for Beta2 here . Its a blackjack game...check it out! Karen on our team has been hard at work getting this out of the door and fixing bugs in it all week. The VB version will be releasing soon. Read More... Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 6:07 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments

• C# Status: 5/27/2005

  Short status today... These last two weeks have been a whirlwind ride for our team. We made a huge dent in our bugs to hit our goals for last week. We incentivized the dev team with late night dinners and they pulled through magnificently, fixing a high Read More... Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:03 PM by shaykatc | 1 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• Xbox 360 interview

  Engadget, a cool tech blog I'm just discovering has an interview with Steve Ballmer and Robbie Back about Xbox 360. Check it out here . Overall I think Steve kept his cards close to his chest. I've been fascinated by all the developing news around comparisons Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:21 PM by shaykatc | 0 Comments

• Whats in a name?

  So my name tends to be unusual for most people. Shaykat. Its tough for people to pronounce initially (say Share-cut, then repeat but drop the r). However I've noticed an unusual trend recently. People in email type my name as Skaykat. Why? The keyboard Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:16 PM by shaykatc | 7 Comments

• C# Status: 5/11/2005

  Last week we rocked on bugs. The dev team kicked it up a notch and started fixing bugs to hit their goals. Along with that we fixed all our bugs that were marked Pri1 and opened greater than 48 hours than Friday. It was pretty cool. On the downside our Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 6:25 PM by shaykatc | 3 Comments Filed under: C# Status

• The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

  Ever seen the error in the title...the one that happens when you rebuild your project in VS and it says: Error 1 Could not write to output file Foo.exe' -- 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ' This is a very Read More... Posted Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:20 PM by shaykatc | 6 Comments

• C# IDE community chat in an hour!

  Our IDE team is having a community chat in an hour from now (1.00 PM P.S.T)! These are the guys who added refactoring to the C# editor, thought about and added all sorts of cool new intellisense features, snippets to the editor etc. I wont give away too Read More... Posted Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:02 PM by shaykatc | 0 Comments

• C# Status 5/4/2005

  Wowie zowie, what a fun week we have ahead of us. Yesterday, our release folks came to a collective decision that yes, we are slightly off track on our bug goals - enough to be a concern but not alarming. We sat around & discussed corrective measures. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:46 AM by shaykatc | 0 Comments

• Ever wondered what our stats are for Product Feedback bugs?

  Rusty, our test manager takes care of managing our customer feedback bugs from the MSDN product feedback center. He has a great post here on our stats. He compares the fixes we made for customer bugs vs. internal bugs and its interesting to see those Read More... Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 11:44 AM by shaykatc | 1 Comments

• 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