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Channel 9 interview with the VS.NET IDE team

Is located here . It's well worth 30 minutes of your time. Observation: Dustin is fitting in quite well with a great team.

Posted 09 September 2008 01:01 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Links, C# General

Euler problems in other languages

I've had some comments on the Euler problems, so I'm assuming there is some interest. There's also been interest among other developers in our office. Darrell Hawley has started solving the problems in Python. Marina Fedner has started solving...

Posted 07 April 2008 09:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, C#, Links, C# General

There is a reason I still get a big blue rash

Earlier this week, Open XML won ISO approval. By any objective measure, it won handily. 86% of the participants voted for the standard. Does that mean that 16% of the voting countries are run by IBM officials? One could make the case that it does. Jan...

Posted 04 April 2008 06:09 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: .NET General, Links, products

Copy Source as HTML for Visual Studio 2008

I kept looking for an updated version of CopySourceAsHTML ( http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/ ) that would work with Visual Studio 2008. (which is why some of my recent code snippets don't look the way I want). While Colin...

Posted 27 March 2008 04:06 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Link / News: University of Illinois gets funding to take parallel computing mainstream

My alma mater, The University of Illinois, just announced a joint venture with Microsoft, Intel, and the University of California at Berkeley which will enable commodity computer systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously in the exclusive...

Posted 19 March 2008 07:56 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Links, local interest

My second DNR TV is live

The world-famous Carl Franklin invited be to be on DNR TV again. The episode is live here: http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=105 We discuss generics in C#, and how you can use generics to create more reusable block of code. We go from fairly obvious...

Posted 11 March 2008 08:10 AM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, C#, Links, C# General

VS 2008 Source Server now live

Oh happy day. I'm stepping into the .NET Framework source using the VS 2008 debugger. Shawn Burke has the most detailed post on how to get your VS 2008 enviornment setup.

Posted 17 January 2008 06:48 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: .NET General, Links

Bill (Gates) shows his sense of humor on his last day

This has been on the net in a few forms, but On10 just posted a high quality version of the Bill Gates' last day video from CES: http://on10.net/blogs/larry/Bills-Last-Day-CES-2008-Keynote-Video/Default.aspx I'm amazed at the number of people...

Posted 07 January 2008 09:51 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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Interesing facts on Password strength: length beats complexity

Thanks to Kate Gregory for the reference. This article: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/password-policy-length-vs-complexity/ points out that increasing password length helps more than increasing password complexity in terms...

Posted 11 December 2007 08:01 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Brian Beckman explains monads

I try to do more original writing here than posting links, but this is too good not to reference. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=358968 Brian Beckman is one of my favorite experts from Channel 9. He's a real rocket scientist, but that's...

Posted 27 November 2007 10:18 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, Links, C# General

Wallpaper Changing gadget for Vista

A bit out of date, perhaps, but the Coding4Fun blog contains a vista gadget that changes your background wallpaper at regular intervals: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/07/16/3904885.aspx Point the gadget at a directory containing photos...

Posted 21 November 2007 09:57 AM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, Links

New Visual Studio Magazine online site (includes all my recent articles)

It took a while, but the new Visual Studio Magazine online site ( www.visualstudiomagazine.com ) is now live. All my columns for the C# Corner are found here: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/columnist.aspx?columnistsid=54

Posted 13 November 2007 10:16 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, articles, Links

The C# Team and Habitat for Humanity

I normally don't post straight links to others, but this is worth mentioning. Charlie Calvert blogged about this late last week. Members of the C# team spent the day working for Habitat for Humanity in the Seattle area. You can read more here: http...

Posted 31 October 2007 02:09 PM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

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Sara Ford saves me time again

Sara Ford has been posting tips about the VS 2005 editor. Today's tip( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/28/did-you-know-how-not-to-accidentally-copy-a-blank-line.aspx ) shows a nifty little setting that disables Copy and Cut when you're...

Posted 28 September 2007 08:37 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Productivity enhancements from C# 3.0

Luke Hoban has a great example of why language enhancements matter Yesterday I discussed auto implemented properties. My focus was that the C# langugae team does a great job to see common idioms and extend the language in ways that make us more productve...

Posted 04 April 2007 06:05 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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