Section: Blogs

C# Blogs page has changed to be a bit more useful…

Oct 26, 2004 1 min.

This page used to contain blog postings that I manually selected out of the mass of posts by members of the C# team, but (as with most manual processes) that didn’t scale as more and more team members posted more and more content…. today, as one of my tidy-up acts as the former owner of that site, I revamped the page to display an aggregated list of posts based off of an OPML file (using a cool ASP.

Heading out on parental leave… 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Oct 25, 2004 1 min.

Luckily or sadly, depending on your point of view, I will still be posting the occasional blog entry and responding to at least some of my email, but my output volume will be reduced for the next 4 weeks (thanks Microsoft!!). I’ll be spending my time at home with the kids;

Burned myself a CD at Starbucks… that’s new

Oct 25, 2004 1 min.

I stopped at Starbucks in Redmond today on my way into work, and the drive thru was really backed up so I decided to run inside. Well, that was lucky for me because I got to see and play with the latest expansion to their service offerings, the ability to pick songs and burn them onto CD right there in the store. I picked out a few (7) songs and a few minutes later I had my very own little compilation complete with a color picture on the CD itself (chosen by me, for a list of images) a case and a custom printed liner with the picture that I chose for the CD.

.NET Framework Code Coverage Edition

Oct 22, 2004 1 min.

A month or so ago, Adam Nathan annouced the release of the Code Coverage edition of the .NET Framework 2.0 (Beta 1)… but I was chatting with him recently and he explained the rationale behind this release and really sold me on how you, the developer who will eventually be shipping production code on the 2.0 version of the Framework, really benefit by downloading and using this special version of the Beta…

Interesting discussion on GotDotNet around the use of VSS…

Oct 21, 2004 1 min.

The discussion started with the question of ‘what should you put into VSS, other than source code?’ and it has grown from there… you can check it out here You may agree or disagree with my statements, but either way… it is a good discussion to have…

New C# E & C article published

Oct 18, 2004 1 min.

** Using the Edit and Continue Feature in C# 2.0 ** 3 Leaf Solutions Summary: This article provides an overview of how to use the new Edit and Continue debugging feature in Visual C# 2005. The feature allows you to make changes to the code while an application is being debugged and apply those code changes without having to close, rebuild, and run the application again.