New VS2005 focused MSDN TV episodes available…

May 4, 2004 1 min.

From Dan’s blog: Lots of good quality MSDN shows for your viewing pleasure: Scott Guthrie on [ Data with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005 ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040325aspnetsg/manifest.xml) Pablo Castro provides a [First Look at ADO.NET 2.0](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF7F7DC1-512F-4D07-B04F-17DDE0FD318A&displaylang=en) Krzysztof Cwalina on the new [Generic APIs in the .NET Framework 2.0](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040429CLRKC/manifest.xml) Enjoy!

RSS Aggregator add-in for Visual Studio .NET

May 1, 2004 1 min.

Very cool article from Code Project; this is something I have wanted for awhile….. from the moment we started outputing RSS from MSDN, it seemed to me that you’d want to view them inside of VS… I’m downloading this right to try it out, but the article is well written and covers a lot of good topics (like Isolated Storage, async delegates and more), so I’m pretty confident the add-in will work well 🙂

Eric Gunnerson on Channel 9…

Apr 30, 2004 1 min.

Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: What has the biggest change at Microsoft since you’ve been here? How do you design new features for C#?

Jay discusses the use of partial classes in Windows Forms 2.0

Apr 30, 2004 1 min.

This new feature, which isn’t limited to Windows Forms, allows a single class to extend across multiple files, isn’t limited to Windows Forms but the designer-generated code is just screaming out for a solution like this. Jay writes: Winforms designed code and C# partial classes _In Whidbey, the WinForms designer takes advantage of a new C# language feature called “_ [ _partial classes_ ](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=C%23+partial+classes) _”.This allows them to pull out the designer generated code into a separate file.

I know that movies based on books are often a disappointment…

Apr 29, 2004 2 min.

In many ways, I’m ok with that; it isn’t like they took away the book when they made the movie… LOTR is one of the few exceptions in recent times, although I also enjoyed Timeline (forgive me)… Bourne Identity might have been a good movie, I can’t say because having read the book coloured my view of it too much to handle the changes… I could go on, listing off a variety of movies where I loved the book but found the movie lacking, but that isn’t the point of this post.

Visual Basic At The Movies now available…

Apr 28, 2004 1 min.

We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, check them out! 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.

Presentation from Francesco Balena on Data Structures for VB Programmers

Apr 27, 2004 1 min.

From Paschal’s blog… Data Structures for VB programmers Interesting PDF file to understand .NET stuff like basic types, arrays, collections and regular expressions. Download [here](http://www.only4gurus.com/techlib/miscellaneous/n6.pdf) Source: [Only4gurus](http://www.only4gurus.com/) Good presentation… from a great author. It appears to be a Wintellect presentation, so I hope they intended for it to be posted for free like this…

Ok, if you are programming against AD… this is so very cool…

Apr 26, 2004 1 min.

This very recent article from CodeProject.com shows a Windows Forms control (C#) that allows you to browse AD objects… I have some issues with the implemenation (mainly: why use a User Control… why not just inherit from TreeView?), but the idea is great and well… it works, so why not take a look!?! **[Active Directory object picker control](http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/ADPickerCtrl.asp)By **[**Marc Merritt**](http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=2851==)** ** A windows control for selecting objects in Active Directory

Eric is looking for your opinion on C# related blogs…

Apr 25, 2004 1 min.

If you have any opinions on this topic, make sure you click on the link below and comment through Eric’s blog… Who are the best C# bloggers? I'd like to create a list of the best C# bloggers, primarily those outside of Microsoft. Please comment with your choice, and I'll do another post with the full list. I’ll likely be using these comments to restructure the blogs page on the C# developer center, so please make your voice heard!

Gregg Miskelly covers some more debugging options…

Apr 25, 2004 1 min.

Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging… Attaching to a process without a dialog _ In _ [ _[a recent post]_ ](http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/04/19/116222.aspx) _, Shaykat gave one alternative to the ntsd ‘-pn' option. I figured I would give two more._