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I haven’t had a chance to post much recently, but I ran into a nice mail on an internal alias that...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 10/19/2006

Extern alias walkthrough

Extern aliases is a feature that was introduced in VS 2005 that I don’t believe is being used...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 09/27/2006

The dark beauty of function evaluation

A recent post in the Visual C# IDE forum (seems like I start a lot of blogs this way J) got me...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 09/22/2006

C# XML documentation comments FAQ

Ever since we released the first version of C# 1.0 I’ve received a question or two a month...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 09/11/2006

Solution navigation

There was a recent post in the Visual C# IDE forum which started me thinking about navigating...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 08/30/2006

C# Express and item template customization

There was an interesting post a while back in the Visual C# IDE forum asking whether or not it was...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 08/23/2006

Item templates - adding references by default

A recent bug entered via MSDN Product Feedback Center questions the current behavior of add new item...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 02/22/2006

Synchronize Class View

A week or so ago a developer who was starting to use VS 2005 mentioned that he was a big fan of the...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 12/09/2005

Exception instead of NotImplementedException

A number of people have expressed confusion and concern as to why C# code generation will insert an...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 12/08/2005

PDC Tips and Tricks

A few months ago I was in LA speaking at PDC 2005. I was absolutely astounded by the amount of...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 12/06/2005

Implement interface in Whidbey

Shaykat, another PM on the C# team, recently posted...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 03/13/2004

Browsing vs. Typing

Though I'm sure most everyone will be interested in my introduction (ever notice that it's hard to...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 02/28/2004

Introduction

Hello everyone,After much abuse from my co-worker's about not sharing my daily ramblings with the...

Author: Anson Horton MSFT Date: 02/28/2004