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C# Express: Edit and Continue
You asked, and the tireless programmers in the C# division listened. Edit and Continue was something...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2004
Jetlag and Attributes
I don't really want to have one of those blogs were I regail you with details of my recent travel...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/28/2004
C# Express: Using the Visual Basic MyServices Namespace
Visual Basic programmers have been keeping something from us: My Classes. The My Classes are some...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2004
C# Express: Some sample projects
If you are looking for some more samples to play with in C# Expess, I've written two projects that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2004
Collaborative Networking – Sharing Documents
One subject that is currently interesting me is real-time sharing of documents over a network....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/09/2004
C# Express: Refactorwhating?
If you haven’t seen Visual Studio Whidbey beta releases, you might not have heard of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2004
C# Express: Getting Started
You’ve downloaded and installed C# Express and played with some menu options. Now what?...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2004
C# Express: Get Help
Here are some more Help-related links for C# Express: Download MSDN Express - an expanded...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2004
C# Express is here!
Well the Beta release is here, at any case. In fact, it’s so completely and utterly here that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2004
Mother's, SPOT and Starbucks - a sign of the times
You know that you are really living in the future when your mother sends an instant message to your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/31/2004
Tech Ed - Not.
Despite some rumors to the contrary, I'm not actually attending Tech Ed. For legal reasons,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2004
POOM the easy way
Pocket PC development has always been a secret passion of mine, and after writing a series of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/21/2004
Blasphemy on a Friday afternoon in the UE department
As you may or may not, know - heck, who am I kidding, of course you don't know. Let me start again....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/30/2004
Desktop wallpaper / Screen saver image
What's the subject of your favourite desktop wallpaper or screen saver image? Something relaxing?...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/29/2004
Hello, World! 2004
Don't know about you, but I'm getting bored with “Hello World” as a nice simple C# code...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2004
F1 for...?
Let's get a little more specific. You're typing away in your favourite development environment...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2004
Brutal Honesty
I guess it's time to admit what I do for my day job here at Microsoft. Sadly I don't get to play...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/01/2004
Space: The Slightly Blurred Frontier
As I mentioned in a previous blog, one of my favourite new gadgets is the Canon Digital Rebel SLR....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/17/2004
Some simple C# graphics stuff
The .NET Frameworks uses GDI+ to handle graphics, and boy oh boy, there sure are a lot of classes to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2004
Software and Mars
If you've been enjoying the pictures from the NASA Rovers on Mars, then you'll like these two links....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/03/2004
Default buttons and WinForms
From the "so simple it's obvious" category.. I have an application with a dialog box that provides...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/30/2004
Classified Section
Me: Programmer/Writer, C# UE team. Turn ons - writing documentation that developers find useful,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2004
Here, Spot!
January - long dark nights, short rainy days, and a strong desire for new gadgets. Perfect timing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2004