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Software Musings

Random thoughts while writing code (and mostly about code)

So you know you have the right skillset for a job but you don’t do that great on interviews....

Date: 06/11/2012

I did a channel 9 interview right before the holidays where I talk about the front end and the...

Date: 01/12/2012

When used correctly code coverage can be a great data point to assess your test quality and test...

Date: 04/20/2011

I was working with some pixel values the other day and I had this problem; I’m getting an RGBA...

Date: 03/01/2011

No matter how much test automation you have nothing will ever substitute the value added by manual...

Date: 12/03/2010

I ran across this issue while working on the UI for one of our tools and I found a bunch of code...

Date: 07/16/2010

This is a topic that anyone doing software testing faces every time they are writing new tests. What...

Date: 04/29/2010

One of the requests we that we often heard from our customers was the ability to disable...

Date: 03/19/2010

I was working with one of our tools and ran into the following problem. The tool is on the PATH...

Date: 03/04/2010

One of the new features for C++ in Visual Studio 2010 is the auto completion of #include statements....

Date: 11/17/2009

On a previous post dealing with Xml Serialization I mentioned that one of the ways you could achieve...

Date: 09/25/2009

Found some more “old” stuff while organizing, this is a repost from an entry I wrote for the Visual...

Date: 09/21/2009

I found this recently while going through my documents, it's something I wrote last November on one...

Date: 08/28/2009

One of the new features of Visual Studio 10 is the Navigate To feature (previously called Quick...

Date: 08/24/2009

Something that’s pretty common is to load and export data from applications to settings or data...

Date: 08/14/2009

Last week I was working on an AddIn and I needed an instance of IServiceProvider. The closest I...

Date: 07/17/2009

A bit about myself, my name is Raul Perez. I'm currently part of the Visual C++ IDE team and I've...

Date: 07/17/2009