Community blog feed on 03 Jul 2009

• Evil code of the day

  03 Jul 2009 at 22:28 from Jon Skeet's Coding Blog

  At a glance, this code doesn't look particularly evil. What does it do though? Compile it with the C# 4.0b1 compiler and run it... using System; ...

• Linq and Functional Programming

  03 Jul 2009 at 16:10 from Charles Cook

  I'm writing some code to display some old blog posts and after retrieving each post as a single string containing CR-LF separated lines ...

• Good customer service and mesh chairs

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:59 from Simon Soanes

  This is a story of how to handle a customer who could have ended up sending something back and getting expensive. So: I've been interested in gett...

• No more Amazon income if you are in North Carolina. Who next?

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:43 from Tim Anderson

  The easiest way to make money on the web is by signing up as an affiliate for Amazon.com and/or Google (Disclaimer: I have both). Although most affili...

• Upgrade to Windows 7 in Europe: confusing as expected

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:43 from Tim Anderson

  PC manufacturers are now publicising their upgrade deals for Windows 7. Buy a machine with Vista today, get a free upgrade to Windows 7 later. Except ...

• Eclipse survey shows Windows decline

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:43 from Tim Anderson

  In May 2009 the open source Eclipse project surveyed its users. Visitors to the Eclipse site were asked to complete a survey, and 1365 did so. That’s ...

• Mozilla takes aim at Flash and Silverlight with Firefox 3.5

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:43 from Tim Anderson

  I reviewed Firefox 3.5 for The Register. I found the new features unexciting from a user perspective, but not so for developers. The new TraceMonkey J...

• Clipboard.Clear … oops

  03 Jul 2009 at 15:43 from Tim Anderson

  Bob Warfield is upset because he lost some work. He copied some text in Live Writer, deleted it, then opened Word and tried to paste. No go .. clipboa...

• Catching up on blog reading…

  03 Jul 2009 at 14:57 from Mike Taulty

  It was very warm and humid last night in Manchester, UK and so I sat up late catching up on a whole bunch of blog-reading that I haven’t done for a fe...

• How To Animate a TextBox in Windows Forms

  03 Jul 2009 at 14:34 from VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity

  Starting PointIn my earlier post, the HiliteTextBox, I created a simple WPF UserControl which is hosted in an ElementHost in a Windows Form. If the us...

• Remember the new URL format for the TFS2010 web services have changed

  03 Jul 2009 at 14:25 from BM Bloggers

  To have a good look at TFS2010 I have migrated some existing VS2008 projects to VS2010. This has meant they are now being built using a new TFS 2010 b...

• Visual Studio 2010 project upgrade bug; test assemblies being copied to release folders in error

  03 Jul 2009 at 13:08 from BM Bloggers

  After I upgraded an ASP.NET Web Application VS2008 solution to VS2010 I found a strange problem. When I build either the whole solution or the test pr...

• Updated Beta1 slides for parallelism

  03 Jul 2009 at 08:56 from Daniel Moth

  For those of you interested in my session on parallelism with VS2010, I gave an extended/longer version of it recently and included a bunch of new sli...

• Debug .NET dumps with VS2010

  03 Jul 2009 at 08:45 from Daniel Moth

  Tess has written a great post on debugging .NET dumps in Visual Studio 2010 (which also briefly touches on the Parallel Stacks window ;-) Comments ab...

• yearsOnThisPlanet++

  03 Jul 2009 at 08:39 from Daniel Moth

  Today I am one year older (but not wiser ;-). This time last year I got an SSN and had almost no friends in the USA, while this year I've booked a bar...

• The Morning Brew #382

  03 Jul 2009 at 06:59 from Reflective Perspective - Development

  Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby c...