Dan Fernandez's Blog
Evangelism - Developer and Platform Evangelism
Samples for C# Whidbey
Shaykat from the C# team sent me an email earlier today about what C# samples we should include for...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/03/2003
Testing compatibility for Whidbey/Everett
Update Clarification via EricGu...having an Everett assembly reference a Whidbey assembly...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/03/2003
Can a PC talk to a Mac in under two hours?
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Thanksgiving at my mom's house in DC is a little...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/03/2003
Space Invaders
Gus wrote Space Invaders in C# (source). Sweet! Speaking of Space Invaders, there is a Space...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/25/2003
Estimating airspeed of swallows
ThinkingIn.NET points out this great article on estimating the airspeed of an unladen...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/25/2003
Friendster not so friendly
Wired magazine points out how Friendster isn't so friendly and how lots of people are migrating...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/25/2003
It's all a matter of style
Probably one of the most religious issues for developers (at least those using the same platform and...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/24/2003
C# Sneak Preview Doc, and C# PDC Sessions
C# Sneak Preview Doc If you want to know about the cool things coming in Visual Studio Whidbey...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/24/2003
BlueJacking and Hacker Emblem
Bluetooth is the other 802.11 spectrum technology, which VerySoonNow will be the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/19/2003
DARPA Cannonball Run
DARPA - The government agency that brought you the internet, is having a contest to win [begin Dr....
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/17/2003
SWK in Episode III
PetitionOnline has a petition with over 113,901 signatures to put the Star Wars Kid into Episode...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/16/2003
What do you want to hear at TechEd?
TechEd 2004 Brian Goldfarb wants your feedback - If you're planning on going, or if you've gone to a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/14/2003
Quick Updates
Jeff Julian who started Geeks with Blogs points to Juval Lowy's Longorn Blog (RSS). ...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/14/2003
Generics and Anonymous Methods articles
Software Legends Juval Lowy and Jeffrey Richter have some new articles out on generics and...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/12/2003
Expansions Part 2: Filtered Completion Lists
I noticed a great question from Luke Hutteman (of SharpReader fame) on Chris Sells blog. ...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/12/2003
Help shape future MSDN TV episodes
We're trying to put together a series of MSDN TV episodes to air once every month on Visual Studio...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/12/2003
Singapore Airlines to offer WiFi
I would love to have high-speed wireless access on an airplane, and, assuming it was a transatlantic...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/11/2003
Mmmm Tomacco...
In a classic Simpsons episode, Homer crosses the tobacco plant with a tomato and makes tomacco with...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/11/2003
C# Expansions 101
Jeff Key of NetPing and SnippetCompiler fame, wrote a nice expansion for using a generic list, so I...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/11/2003
101 C# Samples
Before I forget, 101 C# Code Samples were recently added to MSDN (thanks Duncan) , here are...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/04/2003
C# Spec 2.0 and Dev Center enhancements
Eric announced the release of the C# Language Specification 2.0. Addison Wesley is releasing...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/24/2003
C# Team Bloggers
Julian Bucknall (no RSS) a Program Manager on the C# team and Gus Perez (subscribe), a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/23/2003
C# team at PDC
Eric published the schedule for the C# team at PDC. If you're looking to create your own...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/22/2003
Tickets to PDC on Ebay
Believe it or not, they're charging $1,800 for sold out tickets on ebay...if you didn't get a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/21/2003
George is off to bigger and better things
Today is George Conard's last day at Microsoft :( George is/was a Program Manager on the C# team who...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/15/2003
Back from Wedding/Honeymoon
I'm back from Bora Bora, and I'm missing it already. The honeymoon was amazing and I highly...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/15/2003
Getting Married and going on my honeymoon
I got married yesterday, it was a total whirlwind but a total blast! I'll write more later, but...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/28/2003
LAN Party Gear & the new old backup technology
GearGrip The next time you're heading out to that LAN party and you need to transport your...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/22/2003
Sharing ASP.NET User Controls across Pages
We recently published a How-To on support.microsoft.com for how to share user controls across...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/22/2003
Anders describes the finer points language design
Why are methods in C# final by default versus virtual in Java? Why is the override keyword...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/21/2003
Product Names: Everett, Whidbey, Orcas
I got a question from someone recently asking what the naming convention we have been using for...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/18/2003
Blogger Events at PDC
Scoble, Jeff Sandquist and I met a couple of weeks ago to discuss what sort of blogger events we...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/17/2003
The easiest way to connect your Xbox wirelessly
The Microsoft Broadband Networking team just released this wireless adapter supports both...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/17/2003
PDC Update: 136 Sessions Live!
For those of you attending PDC, this morning we published 136 sessions live on CommNet. ...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/15/2003
Red vs Blue PDC Special Edition!!!
[Keller and I just watched this classic] There is a special Red versus Blue advertisement on...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/12/2003
MSFT Dividends doubled
Today we publicly announced that we'll be doubling our dividend from .08 to .16 cents. News...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/12/2003
WiFi Finder and Windows network connections
I got my WiFi Finder today, its pretty big for a keychain, but then again, I carry a PocketPC Phone...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/12/2003
Handy Tools
I'm still catching up on blog entries that I've been meaning to post, here are some of the tools I...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/08/2003
Anders Article Part II & III
Bill Venners has released Part II and Part III of his interview series with Anders Hejlsberg on the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/08/2003
Gadgets
While ordering international power converters from mobileplanet.com, I broke down and ordered the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/04/2003
Reality Check[ed] from Keller
[Sorry for not posting, but I've been way too busy, and blogging is the first thing to cut when...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/04/2003
Google Math, and Pascal's triangle
Google recently added a cool calulator feature. Simply enter a math formula like "5 * 5" into Google...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/25/2003
TechEd NZ Next Week
I'll be in New Zealand next week for TechEd and I'm pretty siked. I'm delivering three...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/12/2003
XP Universe
Alex Goyen is keynoting XP Universe Wednesday morning. He'll be presenting how we're...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/12/2003
Disabling Win 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker
Mark Michaelis discusses how to disable the often annoying, at least from a developers perspective,...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/06/2003
Rockets on Prisoner Award
/. mentions the "Academy Awards of Halo Videos," the first annual Rockets on Prisoner award,...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/06/2003