Blogs

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 the problems in Ruby. I highly recommend reading...

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 generic uses like collections and EventArgs<T>...

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 not why I like hi videos. He's not trying...

A bit out of date, perhaps, but the Coding4Fun blog contains a vista gadget that changes your background wallpaper at regular intervals: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 and you're off to the races.

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

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 on a blank line with no text selected. Why...

all the time, when you're developing Karen Liu, one of the Product Managers for the C# IDE, was briefly blogging this summer. One of the posts http://blogs.msdn.com/karenliu/archive/2006/06/12/628756.aspx contains all the C# keyboard bindings for the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. It's a great, handy...

And document them Rico Mariani posted another Performance Quiz last month (I meant to post this earlier, but I didn't get to it). In this installment, he discusses the performance benefits of a struct with public fields. He broke the rules in the Annotated Design Guidelines, and many in Effective...