New Language Specs are online. Note that there's a language discussion forum devoted to the language there.

I've just finished doing a security review of my MSDN columns, and as part of that, I needed to add some security to an add-in architecture, so the add-in architecture won't run antisocial code. The approach taken by .NET security is reminiscent of ACLs, which means (at least to me) that it's confusing and I need to read the code 5 or 6 times...

No Reservations about .NET

The Visual C# Team and PDC   PDC is next week, and a lot of C# team members will be there. This schedule outlines our main activities during the week.   You’ll know that you’ve found a C# team member by the “C# Team Member” button that they’re wearing. If you see one of us, feel free to approach us at any time – we’re there to talk to...

The Visual C# Team and PDC   PDC is next week, and a lot of C# team members will be there. This schedule outlines our main activities during the week.   You’ll know that you’ve found a C# team member by the “C# Team Member” button that they’re wearing. If you see one of us, feel free to approach us at any time – we’re there to talk to...

A while back, I wrote about having copies of translations of my book that I didn't know what to do with. A few of you wrote that you would like copies. Here's what I've decided to do: I'm going to give away the foreign copies to anybody who wants them, with the following provisions: 1) It can't be too much hassle on my part. Too much hassle...

On July 20th, 1969, a 5-year-old boy living in Caldwell, Idaho stayed up past his bedtime to watch a very grainy television transmission of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, which cemented an interest in space that has lasted over the decades. Since that time, I've watched coverage of countless space missions, but until I got access to...

I enjoy giving presentations - there's something about being up in front of a crowd that is very powerful, especially when they're laughing. But I wasn't always like that. In fact, throughout high school and college, I avoided those sorts of situations as much as possible. When I got out of school and started working (at Boeing Computer Services,...

I've signed up to do a "C# for the Java Programmer" presentation on campus the week after PDC. I have some ideas for what I'm going to cover, but I'd like your input. What topics are the most important in this talk? What was the most non-obvious thing that surprised you about C#?

This is not the newest manifestation of the "Dress Casual" trend. Naked at Work (And Other Fears): How to Stay Sane When Your Job Drives You Crazy Is a book that I've been reading. It's a self help book, but not the "do these things to make yourself better" vein. More in the "this is why the world seems to be the way that it is". I picked this up...

This is not the newest manifestation of the "Dress Casual" trend. Naked at Work (And Other Fears): How to Stay Sane When Your Job Drives You Crazy Is a book that I've been reading. It's a self help book, but not the "do these things to make yourself better" vein. More in the "this is why the world seems to be the way that it is". I picked this up...

When we first added XML doc comments to C#, we thought that using them would give us much more accurate documentation, as the developers would update the docs when they changed the code. This works pretty well for small libraries, but if you have a UE group that works on your docs, it's pretty inconvenient for them to have to check out your source...

Bellevue is a hilly place. It's perched (roughly) between two large bodies of fresh water. Lake Washington, to the west, is something around 10 or 15' above sea level, and Lake Sammamish, to the east, is about 40' about sea level. What that means for me is that if I'm going riding, I'm going to be riding up and down some hills. Some are steep...

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I got an email from a customer today, in which he noted that the C# compiler allows you to write: bool b = ... switch (b) {     case true:         ...         break;     case false:         ....