deeptanshuv's WebLog
Five card stud, nothing wild, and the sky's the limit
Aug 7 was my last working day at Microsoft. I am on vacation now and will officially end my...
Date: 08/08/2006
End of an era for Tech humor columnists
I have been reading several websites' coverage of Bill Gates' announcement to step down from the...
Date: 06/16/2006
Code Center Premium integration into Visual Studio
Microsoft provides source access to some customers via its Code Center Premium (CCP) program. Not...
Date: 06/13/2006
64-bit and Visual Studio 2005
We keep receiving questions about Visual Studio 2005's support for 64-bit. Here is a set of factoids...
Date: 04/11/2006
Interop followup : handling C2065 errors building C++ Exe
Hi! A customer emailed me with the feedback that my sample code with C++ Exe calling C# Dll does not...
Date: 12/28/2005
Debugger Chat Thursday Dec 15
Hi! The Debugger team is having a Chat this Thursday (Dec 15) from 1:00 to 2:00 Pacific Time. If you...
Date: 12/13/2005
Visual Studio 2003 stops downloading symbols from the Microsoft public symbol server
Hi! Recently, downloading symbols for microsoft shipped binaries using the Microsoft symbol server...
Date: 10/10/2005
Source checksums and breakpoints
In VS 2003 & earlier breakpoints were bound based only on file name, so if the project system...
Date: 07/24/2005
How to call C++ code from Managed, and vice versa (Interop)
Interop - calling native (C++) code from managed (C#, VB, J#, MC++) and vice versa - can be very...
Date: 06/26/2005
How to write a custom visualizer
Many people have used and liked the new visualizers in Whidbey. They really are a powerful data...
Date: 03/21/2005
The Last of the Ferrari Guys...
Daniel Spalding, our Dev Lead in the VC++ linker team, retired last friday after 18 yrs at...
Date: 03/02/2005
App Week followup
Scott & I finished our "Inline Version Control" add-in for the app week, and I think for a...
Date: 02/12/2005
App Week
One bloggable event happening right now is that we in the C# PU are once again planning an App Week....
Date: 01/13/2005
2005!
One of my goals for this year has been to post regular blogs. The problem I keep running into is...
Date: 01/13/2005
Asp .Net debugging in XP SP2
A person emailed me requesting me to blog step by step instructions on how to get Asp .Net working...
Date: 11/18/2004
The case of Turkish İ & Turkish I
As one of the Internationalization representatives, it is my responsibility to make sure that our...
Date: 09/04/2004
Performance reviews take time...
Oh boy, I wanted to fix some automation bugs today, but could not as I had to update my...
Date: 08/26/2004
Imaginative hiring techniques...
So I get this email from a guy on the Windows security team, they are looking for more people and...
Date: 08/20/2004
Getting Remote Debugging working on Windows SP2
The security hardening in SP2 affects remote debugging since the firewall blocks machine to machine...
Date: 08/17/2004
Beta out!
Finally, after some pretty exciting last minute drama with the CD's, the VS 2005 Beta is released! I...
Date: 06/29/2004
Debugger Usage
The newsgroups give us a good idea of which debugger features are causing the most problems for our...
Date: 01/26/2004
Introduction
Hi! I am Deeptanshu Verma, I am a QA in the debugger team, also involved with Internationalization...
Date: 01/26/2004