Dan Fernandez's Blog
Evangelism - Developer and Platform Evangelism
Differences between Express and VS 2005
Soma points out a new MSDN page that shows the differences between Express, Pro and Visual Studio...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/15/2004
Mono RTM & C-Omega Compiler available
Late to the wire with these, but in case you didn't know Mono has officially hit version 1.0 and the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/14/2004
Manual/Offline Installation of Express!!
First, a quick “thank you” to the 57 people who took the time to vote on this suggestion...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/09/2004
Want to learn more about C# Express and creating cool applications?
Of course you do, which is why we have a 3-part MSDN Webcast series dedicated to C# Express that...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/07/2004
Order Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1/Express
Order Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 or Express Order Here - You can choose from CD or DVD, but you will...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/07/2004
How To Make the May Community Tech Preview crash badly
I'm back from TechEd Europe where I ran into a case of the angry demo gods during my C# IDE...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/06/2004
John Kennedy blogs about C# Express
John Kennedy, the man behind the local docs that come with C# Express has a couple of blog entries...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/06/2004
Luke Hoban - C# Express PM is blogging
Luke Hoban, the guy who wrote this, has started blogging. If you want to know what's going on with...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/30/2004
Visual Studio Beta 1/Express News
There's been lots of news coverage on Visual Studio Beta 1, the MSDN relaunch, and of course...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/30/2004
Visual Studio Beta 1 SDK & Redist now on MSDN
If you're not interested in using Express or if you want to use the tools available in the .NET...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/30/2004
Summer of Express Contest
In coordination with the launch of the Express products, I'm “Super-Excited”™ to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/29/2004
C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit
RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit in C# Express One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/29/2004
MSDN Product Feedback Center and Personalization Engine
MSDN has some huge announcements for Beta 1 as Kent, Sara, and Duncan (all burning the midnight oil...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/29/2004
Microsoft Announces new Express Products!!
In the TechEd Europe keynote today we officially announced the new Express products that are...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/29/2004
Whiteboard with Anders session on MSDN TV
** Update: Due to technical difficulties with the WMV file, the link for the download has been taken...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/24/2004
Hotmail to offer 250MB free storage
Omar blogs about the Hotmail team putting in 80-hour weeks to pull this off and what it all means to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/24/2004
Quick information on Generics
Update Jan 7, 2005: Generics will be CLS Compliant! I've recently received a couple of questions on...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/21/2004
What do you want to hear about Java Migration?
I'm giving a talk for TechEd Europe at the end of next week and, while I have a good idea of what I...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/21/2004
Game Developers in Seattle
Meltdown is a Game Developer Conference in Seattle July 27-28th. If you're a game developer writing...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/18/2004
Cool Controls for Windows Forms!
Robert Green blogs about the release of the VB.NET PowerPack. The PowerPack is a set of 7 cool new...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/17/2004
C-omega on MS
Source: https://research.microsoft.com/Comega/ C-omega, is “a research language intended to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/15/2004
Delphi to C# conversion tool
Source: https://www.netcoole.com/delphi2cs.htm “Delphi2CS is an assistant tool that converts...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/15/2004
Mono Beta 2 Announced
Source: https://www.go-mono.com/ “Less than a month after Beta 1 was released, Mono Beta 2 has...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/15/2004
JetBrains Resharper releasing June 20th
Resharper announces June 20th release date, opens Early Access Program to all Visual Studio .NET...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/15/2004
Anders Hejlsberg Tour of the Microsoft Museum
Channel9 had video of Anders Hejlsberg touring the Microsoft Museum. Very cool!!
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/14/2004
Matt Hardman has a blog!
Matt Hardman, the man, the myth, the legend, “Matty”, Hardman the Barbarian, has a blog....
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/11/2004
Interactive Simulation for Visual Studio .NET Beginners
With the launch of the Java Developer Resource Center, we've added a new way for developers who have...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/10/2004
Quick Survey - What's on your Dev Box?
Dan Mosely from the VSCore team wants to know how many of our developers are using dual processor...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/09/2004
Apple ITunes SDK supports C#
"Apple's SDK enables Windows developers to write code to control iTunes from other applications....
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/08/2004
Search eBay Using C#
Jeffrey McManus from eBay writes about some of the cool code samples written in C# to add items, and...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/08/2004
Outlook 2003 Confessional
Outlook is my one salvation from sheer chaos. As I've complained before several times before (here,...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/08/2004
Learn How to Program Outlook using C#
Andrew Troelsen wrote a great article on creating an Outlook add-in using C#. Having had to struggle...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/07/2004
Java Developer Resource Center is Live!
If you're a Java developer who needs to interoperate with, learn about, or migrate to the .NET...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/07/2004
Visual Studio Team System Announced!
[Okay, I'm way, way behind and only starting to slowly unbury] Remember when I said in this post:...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 06/06/2004
Nascar Ballet
Fascinating, I would totally go see this (from NewYorkish) “How do you get people in a small...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/13/2004
TechEd 2004 is SOLD OUT!!
From the TechEd home page: “Due to strong demand, Tech·Ed 2004 San Diego is now sold out....
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/13/2004
.NET beats J2EE for development work in 2004
Do you still think .NET is “not yet?“ Forrester Research recently published a survey of...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/12/2004
Halo 2 = November 9th
From 1stUp, Halo 2 will be released November 9th. Mark your calendars, and prepare for a 1-2% drop...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/10/2004
Laptop configuration and tools
Last Friday, I received my new laptop, a Toshiba M2, with a Centrino chip, 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM,...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/10/2004
What's new in Windows Forms
Chris Sells points out the new Whidbey Windows Forms pages. Lots of great screenshots on their new...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/04/2004
New MSDN TV episodes on Generic APIs, ADO.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET
Lots of good quality MSDN shows for your viewing pleasure: Scott Guthrie on Data with ASP.NET in...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 05/03/2004
Eric on Channel9, Shaykat on Blogs
Eric Gunnerson is on Channel9, discussing: How do you design new features for C#? What has been the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/30/2004
Burn Out Symptoms or Par for the course?
MSN Careers has a quick article on job burnout, below are the symptoms: 1. chronic fatigue -...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/28/2004
Chocolate as a Social hacking tool?
From memefirst, we see the power of one of the most powerful substances in the world, the cocoa...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/26/2004
Back from VS Connections onto Bay.NET UG
I'm back from VS Connections, the demos for my talk went off pretty smoothly and I got to meet lot's...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/26/2004
Upcoming Events
VS Connections (April 18-21)Is anyone going to VS Connections in Orlando next week? I'll be there,...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/14/2004