Section: Blogs

Jay Bazuzi discusses the ‘Rename’ Refactoring in some detail…

Apr 9, 2004 1 min.

If you haven’t read much about Refactoring before, I’d suggest you check out Jay’s earlier post on the subject, but he is now going into quite a bit more detail. Whidbey Refactorings: Rename _ Let’s start by talking about Rename. I view Rename as being one of the “Tier 1” refactorings – the refactoring we absolutely must provide, and which must be of the highest quality. They must be fast, reliable, and easy to use.

MVP Blogs

Apr 7, 2004 1 min.

I didn’t know this existed… so I’m going to assume that a few of you don’t know about it either… there is a Blog site for MVPs at http://www.msmvps.com/, with some blogs hosted on that site (using .Text) and links to MVP blogs on other sites.

Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML…

Apr 7, 2004 2 min.

Bah… I’ve been digging around the web for a couple of days now, and I’m getting frustrated, so I thought I would share my pain with you Here’s the scenario (and see if you can spot my key mistake here, it will be pretty obvious to most developers who have worked with customers before); In a system I’ve written, the user’s have the ability to enter HTML formatted text into various areas of the application.

Great VB6 content at DevX

Apr 6, 2004 1 min.

I was browsing DevX’s Visual Basic Zone (http://www.devx.com/vb) and I found so much great stuff I just thought I’d better point out a couple of useful items; Printing Info for VB6 in two parts (part 1 and part 2) and I also found http://www.freevbcode.com/ which has a ton of VB6 code snippets (and is also part of DevX, despite the different URL) Pretty cool stuff, worth checking out.

Testing BlogJet

Apr 6, 2004 1 min.

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso

Upcoming webcast on Test Driven Development (TDD)

Apr 5, 2004 1 min.

Test Driven Development as a Practice – Level 400 Thursday, April 15, 2004, 9:00-10:30 A.M. Pacific Time Microsoft® Press author Ron Jeffries, author of the recently released “Extreme Programming Adventures in C#” will discuss the application of Extreme Programming design and development techniques using Visual C#® and and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Topics include “Spikes”, unit-testing, and your questions regarding the fundamental techniques of simple design, test-driven development, and refactoring to create practical, .

Visual Studio Service Pack 6 Released

Apr 4, 2004 1 min.

This came out a few days ago, but in case you missed it… Service Pack 6 Microsoft Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 with Visual SourceSafe 6.0d addresses known issues with Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Source Safe 6.0…. You can find a list of the bugs fixed in this SP here.

Back from Disneyland…

Apr 4, 2004 1 min.

Very little to say… I had a great time (and maybe I’ll talk about that later, but it is pretty far off-topic from my normal ‘content’), but now I have hundreds of emails to dig through… most of them have resolved themselves (they emailed me… Exchange bounced an Out-Of-Office back to them… they dealt with it on their own) but sadly when the problem goes away the email doesn’t (wouldn’t it be cool if it did?

Upcoming Language Changes discussed

Apr 1, 2004 1 min.

Eric Gunnerson has posted some information regarding upcoming C# language changes, definitely worth a read; Customer Focused Design Since February 1st, I’ve been getting a ton of negative feedback about the C# language, and two weeks ago we were notified that the FCLC was shopping a proposed rule, so we’ve been talking about the issue in our design meetings. It’s been a very contentious discussion, but we have reached an agreement, and since this is going to show up in the next Whidbey partner drop, I’ve decided to talk about it here….