Section: Blogs

Frequently Asked Question Section now on the C# Developer Center

Mar 24, 2004 1 min.

Hey folks, I’ve been working with the C# Team and two great C# MVPs (Jon Skeet and Nicholas Paldino) to put together a ‘live’ C# FAQ. This FAQ is being run as a blog, hosted at http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq and is displayed on the C# Developer Center on MSDN (at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq). This list of questions and answers is continually being updated, so if you don’t see an answer to your question, and you think it is a common one… please submit it through the “Ask a FAQ Question” area of the blog.

Joe Nalewabau discusses TechEd 2004

Mar 23, 2004 1 min.

Visit his blog and offer some feedback if you want to influence his presentation… TechEd 2004 (May 23-28) _ Anson and I are sharing a session at Tech Ed 2004. We’ll be talking about some of the IDE features in Whidbey for C# developers. A number of members of the C# team will be presenting as well, you can search for session information at: http://www.msteched.com/content/breakouts.aspx.

Going back a bit… Rick Spencer talks about the Usability of Generics…

Mar 21, 2004 2 min.

I’ve been thinking a bit about Generics lately, with the growing conclusion that I will mostly use the ones that ship in the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework, but wrapping my head around a few situations where I could see myself defining Generic classes of my own. With all of these Generics thoughts in my head, I went back and re-read this blog entry from 2/10/2004 by Rick Spencer, and I really found it useful.

Generic Methods…

Mar 20, 2004 1 min.

Someone suggested to me that VB.NET Whidbey didn’t have support for ‘Generic Methods’, so I quickly wrote a bit of sample code to check (yes, it does support Generic Methods) and I thought I’d post that test code for your amusement. Public Sub Swap(Of T)(ByRef i As T, ByRef j As T) Dim temp As T temp = j j = i i = temp End Sub End Class Public Class Sample Public Sub TestSwap() Dim i, j As Integer i = 3 j = 12 Debug.

Paul Vick, Language Designer on the VB team, discusses arrays with non-zero lower bounds…

Mar 19, 2004 1 min.

One of the changes from VB6 to VB.NET was the removal of non-zero lower bounded arrays… a concept discussed by Eric Gunnerson recently, and now covered by Paul… giving it a bit of VB perspective. Non-zero lower bounded arrays (the other side of the coin) … To finesse this issue, the CLR designers came up with a compromise: there would be two kinds of arrays in the CLR. One kind, which I’ll call “arrays,” were just like normal VB arrays – they could have non-zero lower bounds.

Weird Gathering of MSDNers at theme parks…

Mar 19, 2004 1 min.

Chris just got back from Disney, Sea World, etc… Brian heads there (Disneyworld in his case) this weekend, the site manager for C#, Amy, is going to Disneyland this weekend…. and I’m heading there next week… All this, and nary a mention of the mouse from anyone on my team in my last two years at MSDN. Seem Odd? I’m very suspicious.

Tried the “new” Napster tonight…

Mar 18, 2004 1 min.

Hmm… pretty cool so far, guess I’ll see when I decide to start moving music around to my MCE box, my laptop, my Rio device… etc… found the Cake song I wanted though 🙂 [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version – [CAKE](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=CAKE) – Comfort Eagle (03:24)]

Eric Gunnerson just keep pumping out the cool posts…

Mar 17, 2004 2 min.

If you follow Eric’s blog (and if you are into C#, you should) then you’ll have already seen these… but if you haven’t then let these three posts be just a taste of what is available over there; Who does Microsoft talk to when they have questions? … The feedback we got around E&C has been fairly polarized. There is one group who feels the way Rich does, and really wants E&C.

Interested in learning more about Visual Studio Tools for Office?

Mar 16, 2004 1 min.

Over in the Office side of the world, a set of 6 labs have been released, focused on learning how to use VB.NET and C# to create Office solutions with Office 2003 and Visual Studio Tools for Office… cool stuff if Office development is your thing (and it certainly is mine)… Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 2003 Training The training labs in this section step you through the process of creating and working with Microsoft® Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio® Tools for the Microsoft Office System.