This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by MVP Martin Woodward to discuss this week's news, including: - Martin talks about the MVP Summit and how hewon the Team System MVP of the year. The prize, a pimp belt - Phil Haack: ASP.NET MVC RC 2 - Tutorial: How to enable Gzip compression on...

It’s late, but here’s a little humor for ‘ya. I’ve been noticing recently that I’ve been getting some odd warnings in Visual Studio for variables that are defined and never used. Check out the following screen shot from C# code editor: Notice how the compiler is warning about isSelected no...

Ah thought I go back to basics today for a post. An operation I rely on a lot when I’m working with text is the ability to extract strings with delimiters from within another string. RegEx can be quite useful for many scenarios of finding matches and extracting text, but personally for the 10 time...

I recently had the chance to sit down with Jeff Richter and discuss his Power Threading Library. This library provides a simple technique for handling asynchronous development. By making clever use of C# Iterators, Jeff is able to make asynchronous code looks as though it is synchronous code the exe...

you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ?  Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow.  Take for example this one line of code:   Dim doc = XDocument.Load("abc.xml")   Now if you like to wri...

Every once in a while when I write code that deals with Anonymous Delegates, I still kinda freak out when it comes to the behavior of closures and the variable scoping that goes along with it. For example, the following code uses a List<T>.Find() Predicate to search for items in the list and r...

My flatmates and I are moving to another place. Actually, it's a place that is very close to the previous one, so we will still live in the center of Madrid. Basically the place is a bit better, with less traffic noise, and we now have a big terrace to enjoy the summer better! However, the move is t...

I'm not supposed to deal much with low level technologies (unmanaged code, C language...), but in order to test things from the beginning to allow myself understand things better, I'm dealing with Atk for later translating code to C#+Atk#. One of the things I hate more is not having the excellent re...

I'm specifically looking at automated builds, unit testing, better source control, and generally moving away from seat-of-the-pants coding and deployment, to specific processes. This is a Microsoft shop, if that helps. I'm a regular ol' software developer on a team that is growing in size, complexit...

I'm excited to be joining Novell, to work on some .NET 3.x libraries implementation on the Mono stack. I started to get things up and running for my new role in Calvin's A11Y Team last week in the Boston/Cambridge office, where the Microsoft+Novell interoperability lab is located, and had a great ti...