Pilchie's C# and Visual Studio Blog
Sorry for the delay. I took a disconnected vacation for a week after CodeMash. Now that...
Date: 01/24/2011
Well, it's been about a year since the last time I posted. It's a little funny that my...
Date: 04/17/2010
This Saturday from 2:45-4:00 I’ll be giving a talk on “What’s coming up in VS2010 for C#...
Date: 11/13/2008
In VS2008 SP1 our team added a significant new feature: live semantic analysis of open files (or...
Date: 10/30/2008
Yesterday at the PDC, Dustin announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C#. This is a...
Date: 10/28/2008
The topic of removing elements from a dictionary came up recently on an internal mailing list. ...
Date: 10/27/2008
I hate using strings to represent program elements! One of the big problems is that it hinders...
Date: 10/27/2008
Just a quick update. After my previous post, I actually stopped using virtualization for most...
Date: 10/27/2008
Lately I've been trying to support work happening in a variety of our development branches, and...
Date: 08/15/2008
I'm still here, I've just been very busy. We're in the thick of planning out what we'd like to...
Date: 02/14/2008
My colleague Kirill mentioned a post he had about named parameters, but I thought I would pull it up...
Date: 12/28/2007
There were some points about my previous post that I thought it might be worth bringing up in a new...
Date: 12/10/2007
I often find myself writing or consuming API's which require the caller to specify some sort of...
Date: 11/30/2007
Another problem related to using VS in order to develop VS happens in the area of unit testing. The...
Date: 11/29/2007
There are a couple of issues that come up for developers who work on Visual Studio that just aren't...
Date: 11/24/2007
A friend sent me a link to Tomas Restrepo's collection of VS Color Schemes today. I think it's...
Date: 11/23/2007
Today being Thanksgiving here in the US (it's a month late, I know, but what can you do, eh?), my...
Date: 11/23/2007
A bunch of people (Eric, Wes, Joe, etc) have been writing about the wonders of immutable data...
Date: 11/20/2007
Okay, anyone whose been holding their breath for the last 1.5 years for part two of this series, I'm...
Date: 11/20/2007
So I said on Saturday that I would write a future post about the performance issues I've been...
Date: 04/18/2005
We finally got it out there. Take a look at msdn. Or, to see it from the big guy, Soma's blog....
Date: 04/18/2005
It's been ages since I've posted anything here, but I'm going to try and get back into the swing of...
Date: 04/17/2005
Not much to report for today, as I didn't have much of a chace to attend the show content. I was...
Date: 08/16/2004
So today I arrived in Calgary for the Agile/XP Universe conference. I'm really excited to be here...
Date: 08/15/2004
A while back I asked for some feedback about how we should format anonymous methods. Then I was...
Date: 08/08/2004
We’re considering making two changes to the way the formatting engine works, based on feedback...
Date: 07/09/2004
Now that the Express products are available, and Beta 1 is out the door, I thought I would let you...
Date: 06/29/2004
Formatting All Files in a Solution One of the features I’ve worked on quite a bit during...
Date: 05/17/2004
It’s been a while, but now that ZBB is over, and I’ve got a little bit of time, I...
Date: 04/30/2004
Hello All, My name is Kevin Pilch-Bisson. I'm a Canadian living in the US, working as a developer...
Date: 01/28/2004