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• The Roslyn Project - Meet the Design Team

  Nov 16, 2011 at 9:04 PM

  I hope F# team will have free hand and resources to continue pioneer work in language features... and in turn we get benefit of their work in C#... kudos to C#, F# and VB.NET teams... .NET Power!  Platform for many programming languages, under one runtime.

• Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns

  Oct 21, 2011 at 5:47 PM

  Following and using F# allows to stay on forefront of new language developments... async workflows, generic invoke, TypeProviders... domain exploration, and so much more... keep up the amazing features coming...  I have used F# for prototyping financial calculations for a bank; really extremely pleasant development experience.

• A .NET developer's view of Windows 8 app development

  Sep 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM

  Out of all BUILD talks... this and 813T are of interest to me... both are not published... is legal and marketing still in editing room with scissors?

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 06, 2011 at 7:50 PM

  JavaScript = "Hacking" kludge scripts, targeting => lowest common denominator

• Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010

  Sep 19, 2010 at 12:41 PM

  I felt compelled to add my own disenchantment about the "in the browser" help system for VS2010, after using it for few months ... it is slow and a form of torture to use it.  It is a step backwards... Where is the kick a** WPF based Document Explorer?

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box - Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M

  Nov 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM

  What is wrong with WSDL?   Can someone elaborate what is wrong with it from the design perspective?  Consuming a service that exposes WSDL is easy to consume in Visual Studio.

• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves

  Nov 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM

  Is HTML dead yet? 

   

  JavaScript + HTML + CSS + Stateless server + PostBack String Values = Crappy Developer Experience

• Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg

  Feb 01, 2006 at 6:26 PM

  What captured my attention is when Anders spoke about elegance, taste and simplicity in writing software.  I can not count how many times applying simplicity to problem, instead making wild ideas that compound complexity have paid off in long run.  Taste, for me at least is being able to evaluate various approaches, and selecting one that is most elegant and cleanest.  Unfortunely I see the opposite in code written by others, who suffer the consequences of their clumsy (kludgy) actions.
  
  Mike
  WinInsider.com

• Charlie Owen and John Canning - Media Center exposed, Part II

  Mar 30, 2005 at 8:08 PM

  Question: Any chance that we will see 64-bit edition of Media Center?  It would seem a nature fit to leverage power of 64 bit computing for multimedia type applications.  It would enable new scenarios.

• Suzanne Cook - Developing the CLR, Part II

  Feb 20, 2005 at 12:26 PM

  Beer28 wrote:

  
  So native code is also good because it's an added layer of protection against reverse engineering.

  
  
  Beer28 raises very important point. Many companies want to protect their intellectual property (resources and time) that they put into making a software product, and it is a big issue, knowing that someone can take .NET DLL or EXE and quite easily decompile. I know there are tools that "obfuscate" the MSIL, but do not come close to ASM native image.
  
  I am not with the latest buzz, but I would hope that next version of VS 2005 would have much better NGEN that not only could put .NET Native Image into GAC, but also produce standalone app, that could only be run on target platform that has compatible .NET libraries installed.

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