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Ruby: Adding line numbers to source code
Frequently I feel the need for putting line numbers in source files which I put up in my blogs so...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2005
Shooting star
Yesterday night when we (me, Ankur and Hemant) were going out to dinner from office (Microsoft India...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2005
Team Build: Securing your build type
Information applies to Beta3 and beyond releases and subject to change Creation of build type is a...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2005
C# : Property vs. field
Recently there was an email-thread in the internal C# group on the usage of property vs. field. The...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2005
C# 3.0: LINQ, I'm not sure I like it that much
This is the my sixth post in the series of posts I am making on the new features of C#3.0. See the...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2005
C# 3.0: I do not like Anonymous types
This is the my fifth post in the series of posts I am making on the new features in C#3.0. See the...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2005
C# 3.0: I love object and collection initializers
This is the my fourth post in the series of posts I am making on C#3.0. See the previous posts here,...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2005
C# 3.0: Lambda expressions. I don't like it that much
This is the my third post on the series of post I am making on C#3.0 after it got declared on PDC....
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2005
C# 3.0: I like Extension Methods
After the declaration of C# 3.0 I went ahead and installed the PDC bits. After reading through the...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2005
C# 3.0 : I don't like vars
Due to my upbringing in C/C++ somehow I feel uneasy whenever I see some likevar a = 5; I guess this...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2005
C# 3.0
Even before C#2.0 is out (RTM) we already have some sneek preview of the C#3.0 features. Check out...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2005
Killing spree in India Development Center
Q.What does a bunch of disgruntled programmers do after work in MS IDC? A. They kill each other and...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2005
Animation and Text in System tray using C#
Application running from the system tray is very common these days. Mostly these applications show...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2005
Build Type creation and Drop Location
One of the most common issues everyone is running into with Team Build is configuring the Drop...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2005
subscribe / unsubscribe to an event
In one of the internal aliases there was a discussion going on some time back regarding which is the...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2005
The CLR Nullable DCR works!!!!!
CLR took a DCR some time back on how nullable types are implemented. See here and here to find out...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2005
Frame arrangement in image strips used for animation
Sometimes we get so used to things being the way they are we stop questioning them. We always have...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2005
CLR takes a DCR for Nullable type
I saw from Soma's blog that VS is taking a DCR to fix the issues about Nullable types that is being...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/13/2005
Function generator in C++
Some of us were just chatting about my previous post about function generators and we wondered about...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2005
My experiments with continuation in C#
The blogs are buzzing with continuation support in C# 2.0 and what cool things can be done with it....
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/11/2005
Team Build notification tool
< this tool has been updated check out here> As we go on developing the product we frequently...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2005
Anonymous methods and closures in C#
Anonymous Method One of the new features in C#2.0 being shipped in with Whidbey is anonymous...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 08/08/2005
Renaming, Deleting or Hiding a Build Type
Renaming, deleting or hiding a build type is not directly available from the Team Explorer or from...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 07/08/2005
marking required fields on forms/UI
How do you communicate to users which fields on a UI is required and which is optional? This was the...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 06/26/2005
Using the New Build Type Wizard
Team Build and Build Types The build type wizard is used to generate Build Types which are a...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 05/03/2005
Team Build blog
I guess the least represented module of Visual Studio Team System on msdn blog was Team Build . This...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2005
command line tool syntax
Command line interface (CUI) designs for many of the tools found with VS or in Windows were to...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2005
Error messages
Frequently we are presented with error message pop-ups with messages like "Unable to open file"....
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 01/12/2005
TSunami and tribes getting extinct
Two days have gone by and the TSunami death toll is rising. Its already 12500 in India with...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 12/29/2004
All new MSN blog
With all those blog servers floating around I was waiting for MS to do something about it, and voila...
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2004
Steve Ballmer visiting India
The CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Steve Balmer is visiting Hyderabad on the 15th (next Monday)....
Author: Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2004