On October 13, Eric Traut from the Core Virtual Machine Team at Microsoft’s Core OS Division, gave a presentation about the vritualization technology Microsoft currently has to offer. The full presentation can be seen here and takes about an hour. During the presentation, he talks about various...
I just received an email from Lutz Roeder informing the users of Reflector that he decided to explore new opportunities. He has reached an agreement with RedGate software to continue work on Reflector. From his email: I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of ...
Because I blog about Crystal Reports occasionally, and created a helper class to assist in integrating it into .Net applications, I get a lot of questions from people that have problems running their reports. Especially in production environments after they deploy the reports. Unfortunately, I'm...
Or to be more specific, by Microsoft StyleCop . Now this may not be new to you, and that's very likely since StyleCop was announced in May of this year, but it was new to me. The tool checks your code for coding style and more specific, the Microsoft coding style. It was developed outside the VSTS...
Introduction I have been browsing the web for a good and simple class to handle delimited file imports. My current assignment has an import option that needs to deal with that. However, the current implementation (using StreamReader) is not good enough. It doesn't handle all the exceptions you encounter...
Some time ago I wrote an article (in Dutch) about Sandcastle and some of the available third-party tools. About one month ago, it was published in the Dutch .Net magazine. Kind of proud now it's in print. I didn't post about it before, because the article wasn't available on the internet...
Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. The author of this article certainly has an opinion about a number of Microsoft products. There are even some products I had never heard of before. The list contains the following Microsoft products: Actimates Microsoft Home Routers Microsoft Mira Microsoft Origami...
A while ago, one of my colleagues ( Chi Wai Man ) asked about my experience in code reviews, or as I would prefer to call it, code inspections. He is assigned to a project at one of our customers and, triggered by my " This thing is huge post " conducted a little review on the source code in that project...