New Articles
The following new articles have appeared on MSDN: Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment Building the Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application Part 1 Building the Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application Part 2
MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
2/3/2010
These in depth articles provide details about ClickOnce and Office 2007 development.
Welcome to the sixty-first community convergence. In this release I’ll highlight three new articles on IDE enhancements, some articles from by C# team member Eric Lippert, and on by Jason Zander, the General Manager for Visual Studio. Visual Studi...
In January 2006, nearly 4 years ago to the day, I created my first account on CodePlex, when the site was still in internal-only alpha preview. A the time, I was the Program Manager for the Visual Studio Power Toys, where my team created the 5 th ...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/1/2010
Which is better style? bool abc; if (Foo())  abc = Bar(); else  abc = false; vs bool abc = Foo() && Bar(); ? To me, this comes down to the question “is Bar useful solely for obtaining its value, or also for its side effects?†The stylistic choic...
I am not a people person. However, I do love software engineering, and I recognize that no software engineering project will succeed without people. 95% of every project failure I've ever seen (or heard of) has ultimately been due to people reason...
Back in 2006 I wrote a blog post titled: Managed code and the Shell – Don't! . Please visit that post to see why that advice was given. The crux of the issue has been addressed in the latest CLR via In-Process Side-by-Side Execution . In addition ...
I will be in Vienna again in two weeks , from Feb 15-19 ,doing my TDD master class . There are two seats left – and I’d love to see you there! here’s what other people who attended had to say about this class . You can register here.
The January Visual Studio Magazine marks the first time the C# Corner is written by Patrick Steele . I’ve bowed out after a long run with the magazine and its predecessors. The most important part is that the C# column is in great hands. Patrick i...
[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] I’ve been working on a series of blog posts the last few months that cover some of the new features coming with .NET 4...