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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
A bit out of date, perhaps, but the Coding4Fun blog contains a vista gadget that changes your background wallpaper at regular intervals: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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Yes, I should be saying more, but I've been busy By now, most of you know that the March Orcas CTP is avaialble. Personally, I prefer the installable image (located here ). But, if you prefer the VPC version, look here . When you try this version...
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