Shaykatc's WebLog
So I downloaded the desktop sidebar and I like the email panel a lot. However I wish it had better...
Date: 08/23/2005
In case you didnt see it, Luca has posted on our PDC sessions. Lots of cool new language stuff......
Date: 07/28/2005
We are holding a compatibility competition, to get the last couple of bugs out of the product before...
Date: 07/18/2005
I've resisted the urge to get an Ipod for so long, but this nearly made me change my mind. I'm...
Date: 05/31/2005
We just released the Card Game starter kit, a new starter kit for Beta2 here. Its a blackjack...
Date: 05/27/2005
Short status today... These last two weeks have been a whirlwind ride for our team. We made a huge...
Date: 05/26/2005
Engadget, a cool tech blog I'm just discovering has an interview with Steve Ballmer and Robbie Back...
Date: 05/18/2005
So my name tends to be unusual for most people. Shaykat. Its tough for people to pronounce initially...
Date: 05/12/2005
Last week we rocked on bugs. The dev team kicked it up a notch and started fixing bugs to hit their...
Date: 05/11/2005
Ever seen the error in the title...the one that happens when you rebuild your project in VS and it...
Date: 05/05/2005
Our IDE team is having a community chat in an hour from now (1.00 PM P.S.T)! These are the guys who...
Date: 05/05/2005
Wowie zowie, what a fun week we have ahead of us. Yesterday, our release folks came to a collective...
Date: 05/04/2005
Rusty, our test manager takes care of managing our customer feedback bugs from the MSDN product...
Date: 05/02/2005
We now prop C# team member blogs on the front page of our Dev Center. This is a quick insight into...
Date: 04/20/2005
Another change that occurred with the release of Whidbey Beta2 is that the C# dev center was updated...
Date: 04/19/2005
So how do you like Beta2 so far? One of our goals this cycle is to get your feedback early! We are...
Date: 04/19/2005
I just read this article on Wired on google maps. The article basically states that Googles...
Date: 04/14/2005
Scott Nonnenberg is running another chat next Thursday. The theme is the language - come and ask...
Date: 04/14/2005
BTW - for all who suggested new tools in my old blog post, the page has been updated with your...
Date: 04/11/2005
A number of people have asked about Beta2 and I've seen discussion about it. Im trying to figure out...
Date: 04/11/2005
We have a free online course to help Java developers migrate to .NET... Check out the workshop at...
Date: 04/07/2005
One of my responsibilities on the team is to manage our community process. In C# we put an emphasis...
Date: 04/06/2005
Our bug counts finally dropped off in Beta2 and we hit a big 0 today. Jay has been ecstatic all day...
Date: 03/24/2005
I was recently going over our MSDN developer center page at https://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp and...
Date: 03/22/2005
This news.com article has info on our release plans....
Date: 03/22/2005
Catchy title, eh? I gotta admit, when I first saw the title, I judged the book by its cover, and...
Date: 03/18/2005
Just checked out the trial MS Web based aggregator at https://www.start.com/1/. Seems kind of neat...
Date: 03/17/2005
This is a cool concept that Steve discussed briefly today. The discussion was around how to do code...
Date: 03/16/2005
The last two weeks have been intense and this has contributed to my lack of blogging our status....
Date: 03/15/2005
The Feb CTP just got released today. Its the Express SKU. This is a build from a source branch that...
Date: 03/03/2005
I saw Erics post on recruiting in Movie Maker and felt the need to blog about our efforts in C# to...
Date: 03/02/2005
So I use gmail. Its a nice email service - I like the autocomplete on address feature, but still not...
Date: 03/01/2005
First off - the new release. Vs7.0 SP1 is out. This is the SP for VS2002. It bundles a ton of QFE's...
Date: 03/01/2005
Sorry for the late status post - last Friday was quite a rush. We entered last week with ~50 Beta2...
Date: 02/28/2005
I was sick all last week, so this week started slowly for me as I fought fatigue and an onslaught of...
Date: 02/18/2005
I was sick all of last week and am still recovering from the flu. My blogging slacked off a bit, but...
Date: 02/15/2005
Our shut down of Whidbey Beta2 continued this week, with ask mode beginning last Monday. Jay, Kartik...
Date: 02/04/2005
The dev team came out a swinging this week. We started with a fairly high amount of bugs and last...
Date: 01/28/2005
Next week, every bug that C# checks in to Whidbey Beta2 will have to be approved by our triage team....
Date: 01/28/2005
Got questions about the language design? The language team will be on their keyboards at 1pm Pacific...
Date: 01/27/2005
We were talking about talks at conferences today, and it got me wondering...what talks would you...
Date: 01/26/2005
I've posted recently about bugs we havent been fixing. I fear this tends to put a negative touch on...
Date: 01/24/2005
Luca is our uber cool C# compiler program manager. He gets to do cool stuff, such as sit in on...
Date: 01/24/2005
We had a rollicking ride this week in our PU. Bugs once again became the name of the game. After two...
Date: 01/21/2005
Scott Nonnenberg on our team has posted on a recent cut we are looking at...see...
Date: 01/19/2005
Just a heads up that the Debugger chat is in 20 minutes! You can find the chat at...
Date: 01/13/2005