Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• Wrong execution path picked by C# compiler when mixing generic and non-generic method signatures.

  Posted on March 22, 2005

  I’ve found what seems like a bug in the C# compiler which makes the execution path of your code unpredictable. The scenario is laid out in the product feedback bug but a brief repro will hopefully suffice to convince you of its severity. Basically, if you have the following class definition: [Read More]

• A dark day for MS .NET Passport service

  Posted on January 19, 2005

  Today I received a notification from eBay that they will be finally removing support for .NET Passport on January 24, 2004. One big non-MS customer leaves the field… how many more will follow now? [Read More]

• W3C XML Schema and XInclude: impossible to use together???

  Posted on January 10, 2005

  On a project I’m working on for MS Patterns & Practices, we were excited about the XInclude spec becoming a recomendation and anxious about using it in our project, which is quite heavy on XML usage for configuration. The modularization that could be introduced transparently by XInclude was very compelling. Even if it will hardly be implemented in .NET v2, we could still take advantage of the Mvp.Xml project XInclude.NET implementation Oleg did. But apparently it’s almost impossible to use XInclude and XSD validation together :( The problem stems from the fact that XInclude (as per the spec) adds the... [Read More]

• Zero-click design-time validation of XML in VS: the XmlValidate custom tool

  Posted on December 30, 2004

  Zero-click design-time validation of XML in VS: the XmlValidate custom tool [Read More]

• XInclude in .NET v2?

  Posted on December 22, 2004

  Now that the XInclude spec is officially a Recomendation, is it too late to include it in System.Xml v2? Unfortunately I think so :( Luckily, you can still use it in your apps by using the Mvp.Xml project XInclude.NET. [Read More]

• Bug of the week on MSDN Product Feedback

  Posted on December 17, 2004

  How cool is it to have your Whidbey bug rated as the “bug of the week”??? :-) (via Kirk) [Read More]

• When the reasons for cutting an ASP.NET feature are not credible...

  Posted on November 30, 2004

  When the reasons for cutting an ASP.NET feature are not credible… [Read More]

• The right approach to exposing code in the IDE (i.e. NOT the VS way!)

  Posted on November 30, 2004

  Every since the CodeDom saw the day of light, I’ve been wondering when it’ll be the time that VS throws away the ugly vb-like CodeModel and fully embrace the CodeDom for representing .NET code inside the IDE. Looks like at least one other company is doing what I believe is the right thing. While I don’t like the way they mix static members to access IDE features with IServiceProvider-based service retrieval (see the example that accesses BorlandIDE.ModuleServices.CurrentModule and then calls CurrentModule.GetService(typeof(IOTACodeDomProvider))), an obvious inconsistency, I love the idea of doing addins/VSIP packages that can play with/refactor code using CodeDom… Now... [Read More]

• InstallUtilLib.dll: Unknown error in CorBindToRuntimeHost

  Posted on November 25, 2004

  InstallUtilLib.dll: Unknown error in CorBindToRuntimeHost [Read More]

• We are hiring

  Posted on November 23, 2004

  If you’re looking after an exciting and cutting-edge job, keep reading! [Read More]

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