Michael Hopcroft
Home Automation Part 3 - Using Regular Expressions to Parse Sensor Data
In the previous installment I managed to set up basic communications with the sensor network...
Date: 01/08/2007
Building a traffic signal with Christmas lights
It started out as a simple project. My children had become interested in basic electrical circuits...
Date: 12/19/2006
Save the date for PDC '07
Microsoft has just announced that the next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be October...
Date: 12/14/2006
Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementations
As I was putting together a post on IEnumerable and IEnumerator I was reminded of the subtleties of...
Date: 12/13/2006
MSDN Community Content
MSDN recently added Wiki functionality to the portion of the site dealing with Visual Studio 2005...
Date: 12/08/2006
Home Automation Part 2 – Making Basic Measurements
In the previous installment I described my decision to build a temperature and humidity...
Date: 12/06/2006
MSDN Online Chat: LINQ to SQL
Members of the C# team will be hosting an online chat session about LINQ to SQL on Tuesday, December...
Date: 12/03/2006
Programming Projects
Home Automation Home Automation Part 1 - Burning $200 of propane Home Automation Part 2 - Making...
Date: 12/01/2006
New for Visual Studio 2005
IDE Features New For VS2005 - Abstract Stub Generation Language Features (coming soon)
Date: 12/01/2006
New For VS2005 - Abstract Stub Generation
Visual Studio 2005 includes a new feature to generate stubs for methods in an abstract base class....
Date: 11/30/2006
VS 2005 IDE Tour
Karen Liu, a C# IDE program manager recently sent me the specs for all of the new C# IDE features in...
Date: 11/29/2006
Home Automation Part 1 - Burning $200 of propane
I like to use my knowledge of technology to solve problems outside of work. In this series I explain...
Date: 11/27/2006
Welcome
Hi. I’m Michael Hopcroft, the new Product Unit Manager for Visual C#. I started the job a few weeks...
Date: 11/27/2006