Category Archives: Software Development

Got into LA last night and attended Charles Petzold’s WPF Code and Concepts precon session.  Good stuff.  I bought a few books from the bookstore MS set up at the PDC and got this free .NET 4.0 poster.  It has a … Continue reading →

If you want to get some free exposure to the VS 2008 and Office technologies, sign up for Dev Days.  It is coming to my local MS office (Denver) – details listed below. When: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:30 AM … Continue reading →

Someone pointed out this blog post to me: http://kirillosenkov.blogspot.com/2007/08/choosing-interface-vs-abstract-class.html The following quote concerns me: "An interface should define at most one member." I cringe at hard-and-fast rules like this.  I understand the author’s sentiment but I guess I would have … Continue reading →

Most folks know by now that if you don’t call a WinForms control method on the same thread that created it, you are asking for trouble.  In fact on .NET 2.0 the WinForms team did the right thing in throwing … Continue reading →

Masters their primary programming language and support library.  If you’re a .NET developer around here that means C# and the .NET Framework.  This one is fairly obvious, right?  These tools are your bread and butter. Masters their development tools especially the debugging tools.  You … Continue reading →

Every PDC always presents me with really hard choices.  I wish I could clone myself and attend two different sessions that are scheduled at the same time.  For example, on Thursday at 1:45 pm there is Anders session on The … Continue reading →

Just registered the other day for the Microsoft PDC 2005. This will be the sixth PDC for me.  I’ve been to: 1993 – Anaheim – Win32/OLE 1996 – San Francisco – Activating the Intenet 1997 – San Diego – COM3 … Continue reading →

Brad Abrahms has made a bold move and provided a version of some internal coding style guidelines on his blog thereby inviting a flame war.  🙂  It mostly looks good to me except for one item – you just knew … Continue reading →