Section: Blogs
Coming to TechEd? Play Halo for the PC? Have a fast laptop?
May 18, 2004 1 min.
In an earlier post, I mentioned I was going to TechEd... and I said I would post my schedule when I figured it out... well, I haven't figured anything out yet, but I wanted to let folks know the most important thing: I will be bringing my Halo PC CD and a hub... so if anyone wants to play, bring your CD and we'll try to figure out a mini-lan party in a hotel room or something similar 🙂
101 VB.NET 2003 Videos Released onto MSDN
May 18, 2004 1 min.
Recently we launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, releasing them only a few at a time… but now we’ve finished that process and all 101 of the videos are available on the site. Just a little note: If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the WMP9 codecs (or WMP9 itself, although that is not a requirement) or following the steps in this KB article.
Visual Basic Team Blog has launched…
May 18, 2004 1 min.
Look for lots of posts from the upcoming TechEd conference as well as material around all things VB… _ Welcome to the VB Team Blog! ... We'll talk about the overall product and about all parts of it, not just the parts that are covered by existing blogs. We'll talk about things we do as a team, whether in the office or on the road. You'll meet and hear from lots of team members you don't yet know, as well as ones you do.
So many posts in so little time…
May 17, 2004 1 min.
Cyrus (a developer with the C# IDE team) has obviously needed to blog for awhile, and when he finally did, he had a lot of material ready to go. Check out his 28 posts from the last 2 days! Here’s his first post: First blog entry A couple of week ago I worked with Jay and Kevin on a little mental exercise. It was a lot of fun to do and you can read about it here: [LazyLoader](http://weblogs.
SteveJS discusses unmanaged/managed and mixed debugging in VS
May 15, 2004 1 min.
Steve Steiner, a developer on the VS debugger team, fills us in on some of the differences between the different types of debugging that VS is capable of… Unmanaged Debugging vs. Managed Debugging vs. Mixed Debugging. _All versions of VS support debugging both managed and unmanaged code. However there is a big difference between doing one or the other and doing both. GreggM has written about some of the _ [ _reasons interop debugging is difficult_ ](http://blogs.
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
May 15, 2004 1 min.
Those wild and crazy PAG guys are at it again… Summary: This guide provides end-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout your application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. It provides a framework that organizes performance into a handful of prioritized categories where your choices heavily impact performance and scalability success. The logical units of the framework help integrate performance throughout your application life cycle.
Eric posts the C# Team’s schedule for TechEd 2004
May 14, 2004 1 min.
Check out the full post for info on Eric’s talk in particular… ** TechEd and the C# team{#viewpost.ascx_TitleUrl}** … Here’s the full set of C# team activities while we’re there Mon 5⁄24 (5:00PM – 6:15PM) – C# Best Practices – What’s wrong with this code – Eric (Room 6A) Mon 5⁄24 (6:00PM – 7:00PM) – Ask the experts. All the C# team will be there Tue 5⁄25 (6:00PM – 8:00PM) – San Diego .
May 14, 2004 1 min.
Snippets are a pretty cool feature of VS 2005…. aka Intellitasks to some… and Gus has created a tool to make them… (well, he did back in March…. :)) Snippy – A C# code snippet editor I made it my weekend project to hack up an editor for code snippet files. If you don't know what code snippets are, you should check out these two entries by [Shaykat](http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/24/79481.aspx) and [Anson](http://blogs.
Enabling/Disabling AutoRun from your .NET application…
May 13, 2004 1 min.
I answer quite a few questions on the forums on GotDotNet, and sometimes those answers are interesting enough (in my opinion) to be exposed to a larger audience…. Coding this particular one caused Brian Johnson to say… “cool”, so it seems worth posting about here 🙂 The question was (paraphrased) “How do I stop AutoRun from happening while my app is running and the user puts in a CD?”, and the answer is that if your app is the active application, then you can listen for and respond to a certain Windows Message (QueryCancelAutoPlay) and choose to cancel the AutoRun/AutoPlay action for that particular moment (the next CD inserted will result in the message being sent again, and your code gets to choose once again whether or not to cancel the event).
Duncan’s VS.NET 2003 wouldn’t run… and why that is good for you :)
May 13, 2004 2 min.
Something must have changed, but I had no idea what it was... but suddenly, existing applications (the same version of which run fine on other machines) were crashing with IO errors, specifically "System.IO.IOException: The device is not ready.". At the same time, I could no longer open VB projects in VS.NET, or create new VB or C# project ("path not found" for the C# projects, "