Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
My DotNet Rocks! show posted
Joel and I had a great time on this show… a few highlights to get you to listen to the whole thing...
Author: BradA Date: 08/24/2005
GAC in CLR 2.0
Richard does a great series of 4 posts on the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in CLR 2.0..more than you...
Author: BradA Date: 08/24/2005
Power Management
I talked a while back about some issues around battery life, but recently a co-worker set me a...
Author: BradA Date: 08/21/2005
Crashing a DotNet Rocks show
Joel Pobar invited me to crash his chat with DotNet Rocks tomorrow (or is that later today now…) I...
Author: BradA Date: 08/19/2005
A new VB theme song?
A co-worker just forwarded me his VB theme song… best I have heard.. Nothing like a song about a...
Author: BradA Date: 08/17/2005
.NET Framework 2.0, SLARvol2 and FDG
With the SLARvol2 and FDG being published very right around the time that the .NET Framework 2.0...
Author: BradA Date: 08/15/2005
The Framework Design Guidelines Gets its First Review
…and it is not even published yet. We asked Bill Wagner (of Effective C# fame) to review a draft of...
Author: BradA Date: 08/15/2005
Shamless book plug: Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
If it is on Amazon it must be for real ;-) Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and...
Author: BradA Date: 08/12/2005
Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters
When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name...
Author: BradA Date: 08/11/2005
PDC2005 Birds of a Feather Sessions
Check it out, we opened up the Birds of a feather suggestion center … this is your chance to lead...
Author: BradA Date: 08/10/2005
A couple of great CLR concurrency papers
I just ran across these and thought they are worth sharing:...
Author: BradA Date: 08/07/2005
Page Proofs for Design Guidelines book complete!
Oh, what a great day… I just finished doing the final page proofs for the design guidelines book...
Author: BradA Date: 08/06/2005
CLR team having an impact down-under
Good to see the CLR team’s trip down-under is having an impact… Not just long days in the pub ;-)
Author: BradA Date: 08/06/2005
A date with Rico at the PDC
Well, not like that ;-) But Rico is open for business at the PDC... We got him hooked up with a...
Author: BradA Date: 08/04/2005
Unique opportunity on the CLR's Rotor team
We are just starting to kick off the hard core planning for the next release of ROTOR, a shared...
Author: BradA Date: 08/03/2005
MSDN goodness today: Cool MSDN Vista site launched and WinFX Runtime Beta1
Check out… we got some coolness going on the MSDN Vista page and ANYONE can download the WinFX...
Author: BradA Date: 07/27/2005
More prep for my PDC precon
As a follow on to our meeting with Don Krzysztof and I meet with Jeff Richter to get his take on...
Author: BradA Date: 07/24/2005
Object Pascal Support for Avalon...
Check it out -- https://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/archive/2005/07/17/3023.aspx Looks cool... I...
Author: BradA Date: 07/19/2005
PDC Session Preference Survey Live
If you are one of the many folks that have already registered for the PDC please take the time to...
Author: BradA Date: 07/18/2005
Paul Vick get's his wish.. let the flock to the PDC begin!
Recently Paul Vick noticed that his name was not baked into his PDC session title like some other...
Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2005
Should you change return types in a method overload?
The design guidelines around method overloading are clear… you should only overload methods that do...
Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2005
Blink, Thin Slicing APIs and PDC
I just got through reading Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking … well, ok I actually...
Author: BradA Date: 07/15/2005
So, now I am a marketing guy??
Raymond posts a good (meaning blunt) entry on his session at PDC2005… Today I got to see Marketing's...
Author: BradA Date: 07/15/2005
Tons of new PDC sessions just posted
Well folks, a ton of dedicated folks pushed through over the last couple of days and we are proud to...
Author: BradA Date: 07/14/2005
Transcripts for the MSDN Designing .NET Class Libraries chats
We finally got the last of the transcripts from the MSDN Designing .NET Class Libraries class we did...
Author: BradA Date: 07/11/2005
On to 64bit...
I recently caught the .NET Show covering Win64. It was cool to hear Larry Sullivan talk about the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/10/2005
Got an FxCop Question?
The FxCop forum is open and the FxCop team is listening… Please ask away!
Author: BradA Date: 07/09/2005
Dot Net Rocks! on the PDC
Just getting through my back log of MP3s recently and I noticed this Dot Net Rocks! show talking...
Author: BradA Date: 07/07/2005
".NOT" Components
Dr. Dobbs has an interesting article by Frank Wu called .NET Versus .NOT… Frank talks how to spot a...
Author: BradA Date: 07/06/2005
The output of planning is an organization aligned around the plan
I have been doing a little thinking about planning recently.. How do we decide what features are...
Author: BradA Date: 07/05/2005
The truth about string comparisons
Dave Fetterman – A dev on the BCL team wrote a very good MSDN article on strings.. Worth a read: New...
Author: BradA Date: 06/30/2005
Getting ready for the Framework Design Guidelines: The Art of Building a Reusable Class Library PreCon
Krzysztof and I spent sometime with Don Box Friday to get some tips on how to give a great PDC...
Author: BradA Date: 06/27/2005
Uninstall magic: MSIZap and MSIInv
Like many of you, my laptop is very “dirty”… I tend to install the latest pre-release builds when...
Author: BradA Date: 06/24/2005
Go for a drive with the Channel9 guy
The latest for the crazy folks at channel9… this spot answer the question: what if the channel9 guy...
Author: BradA Date: 06/22/2005
My history catching up with me... ;-)
Adrian Florea found a blast from the past for me.. It seems like a world ago when I wrote this paper...
Author: BradA Date: 06/17/2005
Cool Console Game
You thought Space Invaders! was a cool sample, check out this one: It is a VB 2005 Console based...
Author: BradA Date: 06/17/2005
Great Reflection Article posted to MSDN Mag site
Joel Pobar (master of all things dynamic) wrote a great piece on reflection in this month’s MSDN...
Author: BradA Date: 06/15/2005
Do you have CTP Madness??
Our friends over at Channel9 just posted a cure for CTP Madness… Here is an excerpt from this site...
Author: BradA Date: 06/14/2005
VS2003: Copying a file to the output directory
I recently needed to create a VS 2003 project. The application is a simple console app that reads an...
Author: BradA Date: 06/12/2005
Showing Progress in a Console Windows
Recently I needed to show some progress indicator on some long running console application. I recall...
Author: BradA Date: 06/11/2005
The CLR team ZBBs!
Oh yea!! As of Friday, June 10, 2005 12:22 PM PST we are one MAJOR milestone closer to shipping...
Author: BradA Date: 06/10/2005
PDC 2005 Registration Open
Hey, check it out, we just opened the PDC 2005 registration, be the first to get a in! And of course...
Author: BradA Date: 06/07/2005
Finally, a technical description of CLR compatibility....
Much has been made of the compatibility around the CLR 2.0…. We recently go Jesse Kaplan (a PM on...
Author: BradA Date: 06/04/2005
Have you installed VS Express Edition?
One of the very cool things about the VS 2005 Express Edition for us inside the big house is that...
Author: BradA Date: 06/02/2005
Don't let the facts obscure the truth
I was reminded of this quote that that I always attribute to a master of communication on talking...
Author: BradA Date: 05/29/2005
Mike Downen, CLR Security PM jumps into blogging
Mike is the PM for the CLR security system… excited by his recent CLR RoadTrip to Arizona he jumped...
Author: BradA Date: 05/28/2005
CLR RoadTrip III: Alberta in June
Well, the CLR roadtrip continues on… the week of June 13th several members of the CLR team will be...
Author: BradA Date: 05/27/2005
Take the .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility Challenge
Lots of buzz around the issue of .NET Framework 2.0 running your current applications… I could wax...
Author: BradA Date: 05/26/2005
Download the Beta1 RC of our WinFX Technologies
I am excited to announce that the Beta1 Release Candidate (that means all-but-final) build of Avalon...
Author: BradA Date: 05/23/2005
PDC Lunch sessions
As you Euan said, we are deep into session planning now… I gotta say, I LOVE the PDC. It is by far...
Author: BradA Date: 05/20/2005