Code To Live

The Code To Live [http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Code_To_Live] video starts with an All-Girl AC/DC cover band.  I'm not really sure what else you need to know. Steve Loethen [http://geekswithblogs.net/thesenator/] is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft here in Kansas City (or…

LINQ Article on MSDN

MSDN has one of the better articles I've read on LINQ: The Evolution Of LINQ And Its Impact On The Design Of C# [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/csharp30/default.aspx].  It really helped to see the design history to understand why things are the…

Automatic bug reporting using FogBugz 4.0

I had a previous post about automatic bug reporting using FogBugz 3.0 [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2004/06/26/usingscout.aspx].  I recently upgraded to FogBugz 4.0 [http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/] so I had to go through the process of setting this up again.  (You…

Easy Multi-Threaded Client

Here's a great little tool that helps you write a simple multi-threaded app [http://www.windowsforms.net/articles/easythread.aspx].  It gives you an easy way to move certain tasks to a background thread.  Neat idea!  Now I can move much of the database stuff to a background…

A Sneak Preview of Visual C# Whidbey

MSDN has an article about some of the new features in C#/Whidbey [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/whidbey_csharp_preview.asp] .  It's a pretty neat article that talks about  the language enchancements and new features in Visual Studio.  I&…