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Taking care of the pennies...
Over New Years, I read a book called the Millionaire Next Door, which got me thinking hard about...
Author: shaykatc Date: 01/10/2005
C#'s Group Program Manager, Raj is blogging too!
My boss, the head of C#'s Program Management team, Rajpai is blogging here! Like Scott, Raj has a...
Author: shaykatc Date: 01/10/2005
C#'s PUM is blogging now!
Our Product Unit Manager, Scott Wiltamuth is now blogging here. Scott has been the PUM of C# since...
Author: shaykatc Date: 01/07/2005
How well do you think the C# team fares w.r.t community?
I took a break last week. Along with late night sessions upto 3am playing Halo2 co-op on legendary...
Author: shaykatc Date: 12/27/2004
A new improved Whidbey features document...
I dig working on community on the C# team. Raj my boss discussed me working on community about a...
Author: shaykatc Date: 12/20/2004
Back to blogging
Funny how it goes. I've been away a while from blogging mostly working on other stuff and...
Author: shaykatc Date: 12/15/2004
Whidbey C# help documentation
Fredrik in an earlier blog post mentions that he got feedback on our blog that our documentation is...
Author: shaykatc Date: 08/24/2004
Whidbey Beta1 likes/dislikes?
So I'm back blogging, and its been about 2 months since we released Whidbey Beta1. I got to thinking...
Author: shaykatc Date: 08/24/2004
I'm out all next week, have a great 4th of July
Vacation has rolled around. I spend this weekend at a pretty intense tournament and then take the...
Author: shaykatc Date: 07/02/2004
C# Express Feature Set
I've seen a number of posts by people asking what features are/arent in Express. You can get the...
Author: shaykatc Date: 07/01/2004
Whidbey Beta Tip#1 Addendum: C# Screensaver Starter kit is in Express only
Don asks whether the C# Screensaver starter kit is in the Express SKU only? The answer is yes. We...
Author: shaykatc Date: 06/30/2004
Whidbey Beta tip #1: Express SKU starter kits
One of the items we worked on for the C# Express SKU, was the Screensaver Starter Kit. To start it...
Author: shaykatc Date: 06/30/2004
I'm back blogging again.
Sorry to be away. As we kicked into the last months of shutting down Beta1 and planning Beta2,...
Author: shaykatc Date: 06/29/2004
What do you do with a community/Beta release of Whidbey?
I have a confession to make. I have a pre-conception that is probably false. I believe that...
Author: shaykatc Date: 05/18/2004
A 2 week snapshot of my MS life
Apologies for dropping out of the blogging world. Life got a little busy in C# land with us hitting...
Author: shaykatc Date: 05/13/2004
And today we have selected blog reads by Dan and Shaykat...
Two days ago, Dan Fernandez, our marketing dude dropped by my office for a meeting. We got to joking...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/30/2004
VS 2003 Tip #16: Free debuggers
Life at MS got busy all of a sudden so as a result I blogged less this week. To continue on my last...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/29/2004
VS 2003 Tip #16: Part I - Free debuggers
Quick - what are the two free managed debuggers that you can get in Everett (not counting VS 2003)?...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/21/2004
VS 2003 Tip #15: Attaching devenv to a process from the command line.
Ziv posted: “I've often wondered how to do the equivalent of "windbg -pn ProcessName" in...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/19/2004
VS 2003 Tip #14: Impress your friends with these two arcane tips :-)
Todays tips are more on the arcane side, but when used effectively at a demo, will elevate you to a...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/16/2004
VS 2003 Tip #14: What are the requirements to debug a managed application?
Every now and then we get a question about debugging managed code with Visual Studio. It is a little...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/14/2004
VS 2003 Tip #13: Getting a connection string quickly
Often I will be writing some quick code to access a database, and I'll need to add a connection...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/13/2004
VS 2003 Tip #12: Better view of data in the debugger windows
In VS 2003 we did some things in C# to make viewing of data in the debugger easier. The first...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/12/2004
Random stuff
I've been a little busy lately with various things happening. The MVP summit happened earlier this...
Author: shaykatc Date: 04/08/2004
VS 2003 Tip #11: Autocomplete on new class creation
In Everett we made a small change to Intellisense to lessen the code you had to type. Often you will...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/29/2004
Community Technology Preview of Whidbey
Last week was a stressful week as we worked on closing down the Community Technology Preview. We had...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/26/2004
VS 2003 Tip #10: Run pre and post build commands from the C# projects
Vs7 customers complained to us that they wanted pre and post build commands that could be run from...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/26/2004
Whats your favorite Whidbey feature?
As a C# customer, what are the 3 top C# features that make you excited in Whidbey? An incomplete...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/25/2004
Vs 2003 Tip#9: Turning off Dynamic Help
Joen blogs about this here
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/18/2004
VS 2003 Tip #8: Exception information in the Object browser
One of the complaints we received from VS7 was that you couldnt tell the exceptions that a...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/16/2004
C# Team Blog site is now up!
Check out https://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/blogs/ to check out the rest of the C# crew's...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/11/2004
VS 2003 Tip #7: Implementing interface stubs automatically
In Everett, we added a feature to add interface stubs to your code automatically, when you wanted to...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/10/2004
How do you find code you need?
I happen to work on the Samples story for Whidbey. We have a ton of code all over that can help you...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/09/2004
VS 2003 Tip #6: Keyboard shortcuts
I'm a keyboard shortcut junkie. I love keyboard shortcuts for tasks. I've been known when speaking...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/04/2004
VS 2003 Tip #5: Intellisense in the immediate window
Ok, one other new feature we added was to add intellisense to the immediate window. The immediate...
Author: shaykatc Date: 03/01/2004
VS 2003 Tip #4: Demo better with the toolbox and task list
Two quick simple techniques for people who need to demo code (as I wait for the traffic in front of...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/27/2004
Code snippets in Whidbey
One of the other hats I wear on the team, is looking after our samples story. We are looking at our...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/24/2004
VS 2003 Tip #3: View exception information with $exception
Every now and then a feature gets put into the product that just gives you this tickle of excitement...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/20/2004
Release Program Managers in Visual Studio
On the C# team, I'm a Release Program Manager aka the “Box” PM. Release PM's are...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/16/2004
Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!
A quick note on why I blog about Visual Studio 2003 aka Everett - Its a released product so devs are...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/13/2004
Houston, we have another blog liftoff!
Hi I'm Shaykat and I work on the C# team. Some quick intro stuff/what I plan to post on etc... I'm a...
Author: shaykatc Date: 02/13/2004