http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2004/06/03/148131.aspxI recently ran across an article written by Richard Grimes in Dr. Dobbs Journal titled Mr. Grimes farewell. I wanted to respond to some of Richard's assertions and points in the article. You should take Richard's article with a grain of salt as he does clearly state that the article...

Jay Roxe is looking for Visual Studio .NET 2003 applications to test against Visual Studio 2005. Read more about it on Jay's Blog.

  The list of TechEd sessions for 2005 is now up! If you register now, you get a $300 discount Choosing sessions was *absolutely* brutal. That being said, there's still a lot of content that C# developers would be interested in. Here are my picks for sessions and events: Developer Tools/.NET Framework Visual C# Under the Covers: An...

<PersonalRant> There was a lot of good sessions and fighting for too few spots TechEd this year.  It was brutal, and I mean brutal. There were hundreds of recommendations, fewer total session spots then last year, a new security track, VSTS sessions, and a Business Applications (MS CRM) track. About 90% of all session...

It's interesting to jump back and forth between both programming models as lately I've been working on a decent size SQL 2K database (4M+ rows). Personally, I'm a Query Analyzer guy and I do all my SQL work there. I'm used to having IntelliSense in VS, which is annoying not to have in QA, but for some reason I live with...

For those of you who don't know, Class Designer (CD) is a Visual Studio 2005 feature that lets you visually design/model your data types. You can use CD to design custom .NET classes and it can be also used to better understand and navigate an existing code base. One of the lesser known features of Class Designer is that you can also...

I got sent this recently from a Microsoft SDE position in our CRM team (Job ID: 124984) ....The candidate must have 4+ years of commercial development experience in following areas: .NET Framework, ASP.NET/ASP, Advanced Web Services, WSE, TSQL, C#, C++, SQL Server/database technologies, multithreading techniques, system software development...

Object Test Bench is a new Visual Studio 2005 feature that helps you understand objects at Design Time, rather then runtime. How many times have you walked up to a code base and created some simple test console/Windows/web applications just to run a couple of methods on a class? Like the immediate window, Object Test Bench allows you to ...

Mini-Microsoft is a blog dedicated to reducing Microsoft employee headcount: "Let's slim down Microsoft into a lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine! Mini-Microsoft, Mini-Microsoft, lean-and-mean!"   I wanted to give my personal view on some of the thoughts and ideas posted in the post: Mini-MSFT: Employee Growth...

DJ Bolivia, whom I blogged about earlier, has released the final volume of the three part series Music To Code By.   "Exception Handler" (Music To Code By, Volume 3 of 3)60 minutes of Progressive/Tribal HouseDownload the MP3 or listen to the stream "Memory Leak" (Music To Code By, Volume 2 of 3)64 minutes of...

Brian Goldfarb wants to know what the best way to create master page templates for you is. Let him know what you think

Scott Wiltamuth, the Product Unit Manager of the C# team and one of the designers of the C# language has started a blog (after some gentle nudging from yours truly). Subscribed!

It took a small miracle to get this up (you don't want to know), but please cruise through the Overview of Visual C# 2005 (by Patrick Barnes). You may even find some features you didn't even know existed, like: Nullable Types Code Definition View Object Test Bench View as Source Code Never having to type in "sn -k" again (Priceless)...

Thank you Chris Sells :)          In his post, Chris asks whether all of the features shown in this demo will work in the other Visual Studio products. The answer is yes. The way we've thought of our products for Visual Studio 2005 is that it's a Russian doll model, meaning that C# Express is a...

For those of you who missed this, the BCL Team officially announced that Generics for the .NET Framework 2.0 will be CLS compliant.  This is awesome :) I've also updated my previous post on the subject