Jeff Barnes has made his extended talk (think) on the following topics available: NET 3.5, Visual Studio Enhancements Lifecycle tools ALM, C#, VB9, Interop, LINQ ParallelFX PLINQ Services (WCF, WF, CardSpace) Windows Applications Web Applications Office Applications Mobile Applications Synch Services for ADO.NET Orcas_For_Architects_Jbarnes -... Read more

One of the new features that will be available as part of the Visual Studio “Rosario” release is called “Gated Checkin”. This is based on an internal tool that Microsoft uses called Gauntlet. Gauntlet was originally created in 1996 by the IE team, but is now used fairly widely in... Read more

Daniel Moth has an interesting post that talks about performance and the DllImport attribute. The underlying theme to his post is that you should define a convention for how the DLL name is specified in the attribute. This actually has a significant enough impact that it really should... Read more

Now that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework v3.5 have shipped, you may have noticed that Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 2.0 and Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.0 also shipped at the same time. Both are automatically installed with .NET Framework v3.5, Windows Server 2008 and... Read more

I just came across this post by Travis Illig, one of the Subtext developers, that brings up an interesting issue with FxCop 1.35. Apparently, FxCop 1.35 uses the Office 2003 spell checker for the spelling rules. If you don’t have Office 2003 (and it must be Office... Read more