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As I've you've probably heard, we are working on an update for .NET3.5 SP1 and its 2.0/3.0 sub-components which will contain fixes for the small number of bugs reported by customers since the release of 3.5 SP1 this summer. More information regarding the specific bug fixes included in the update will be provided in a knowledge base article that ...

Not everyone in the world speaks English. Such a silly thing to say, but if you live in an English-speaking country it's easy to forget that many (most?) people in the world would prefer to do their work in the language of their choice. Microsoft ships documentation in Visual Studio that is human-translated (a huge effort) into 9 major world ...

Here's the results, as promised, of the .NET Survey I took last week. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. It was a single question with 14 checkboxes. You were asked to ''check al the .NET Framework features ...

Remember last week when I mentioned the Microsoft Web Platform Installer? It's an bootstrapper that gets you setup for free web development, all in a single application. It'll setup IIS7, get you Visual Studio, SQL Server, .NET, etc. Cool. And there was much rejoicing (except XP folks, sorry.) Well, the team just released the Web Application ...

Rob beat me to it. Blogging about T4 (the Text Template Transformation Toolkit) had been on my list literally for a year. He and I were singing its praises last night. Hopefully I can add something small to the conversation. What's the story? Well, T4 is a code generator built right into Visual Studio. To be clear, you HAVE THIS NOW on your ...

The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 included a bunch of new features, but as a Service Pack it also included a number of bug fixes and many improvements. These fixes included all aspects of the .NET Framework from ASP.NET to WPF and the CLR. Will the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 break my 2.0 apps? Almost certainly not. Why Not? Remember that 3.5 (and 3.0 ...

First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-third in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." That said, what does Microsoft Code have to do with Google Chrome, the new browser from Google? Take a look at the Terms and Conditions ...

One of the things I'd said I'd do, Dear Reader, when I went to work for the Big Blue Monster, was to get your feedback into The Company whenever possible. Here's another opportunity for us to effect change, however small. A while back I made a little site called http://www.smallestdotnet.com that would look at your Browser's UserAgent and let ...

Someone said today after seeing the C# var operator for implicitly typed variables, "Oh, now C# has Dim." Well, not exactly. Not even close. I like what this C# tutorial says about var. ...[var is] a new keyword that means, "I want to declare a variable, but I’m too lazy to write out its type." One way to look at ...

(I forgot to post this one to my blog, so you may have already noticed it on the Hanselminutes Feed. My apologies.) My one-hundred-and-fifteenth podcast is up. Carl Franklin returns in this episode, and he and I talk about the joys of programming and getting back to basics. Is it hard to stay passionate about this job? Is there a need for the ...