Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
On shipping software and the fate CorDBG
We are in the end game for .NET Framework 2.0 and I LOVE this stage of the product… it is so cool...
Author: BradA Date: 03/15/2005
Geek dinner CLR style...
Come, join us!, 3/22 in the Seattle.
Author: BradA Date: 03/15/2005
NPR on Donald Knuth
I was greeted this morning to an excellent interview with Donald Knuth on NPR… Did you know that his...
Author: BradA Date: 03/14/2005
Anders Hejlsberg interview...
The .NET Journal has an interesting interview with Anders talks about nullable types, generics in...
Author: BradA Date: 03/13/2005
Pref: Convert.ToString() or Int32.ToString()
A reader recently asked me if there is any perf difference between Convert.ToString() or...
Author: BradA Date: 03/10/2005
Do you have what it takes? Are you up for a real challenge?
I have an opening for senior Program Manager on my team. I am looking for someone with deep industry...
Author: BradA Date: 03/10/2005
Blog Day: BCL team does the blog challenge...
The BCL team has laid down the blog challenge… On next Tuesday the goal is for the whole team to do...
Author: BradA Date: 03/09/2005
Perf Comments and more??
I love this new section of the Channel9 Wiki on Classes with Performance Comments. Rico does a great...
Author: BradA Date: 03/08/2005
Quote of the Day
This quote came up in a meeting I was in recently… We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall...
Author: BradA Date: 03/08/2005
Software Development and Engineering Design
Having spent 3 weeks on the road talking to different customers about software development and...
Author: BradA Date: 03/08/2005
Back from the FrontLine
I returned to work this week from 4 weeks on the road (one week was vacation) and man I am glad to...
Author: BradA Date: 03/06/2005
Using Code Access Security??
Some folks here in the big house are trying to figure out how to do a better job with our Code...
Author: BradA Date: 03/06/2005
Slides Available for Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
Wow – what a run! I started in Dallas, then the Bay Area, then Houston, then Austin and ended the...
Author: BradA Date: 03/04/2005
From the Raleigh User's group meeting
Well, the “Big Show” came to it last stop last night. The Triangle Area .NET Users Group hosted me...
Author: BradA Date: 03/03/2005
Converting unmanaged C++ code to C#
A customer recently asked about 3rd party tools to cover unmanaged C++ code to C#... I know, I know...
Author: BradA Date: 02/28/2005
Migrating to .NET Framework 2.0? Let us do the testing for you....
Over the next year many of you will be migrating your V1.x applications to 2.0. This will no doubt...
Author: BradA Date: 02/26/2005
MSDN-TV on PowerCollections posted
Peter and Krys are interviewed on MSDN TV recently about the PowerCollections project… Check it out...
Author: BradA Date: 02/26/2005
Offline content for Designing .NET Class Libraries Series
By popular demand we have started getting offline versions of the Designing .NET Class Library...
Author: BradA Date: 02/25/2005
From the Austin .NET User's Group
On last friday night I had the great pleasure of speaking to the Austin .NET User’s Group. One...
Author: BradA Date: 02/23/2005
On BHarry's famous finalization email
Getting out talking to all these user’s groups in a lot of ways brought me back to the early days of...
Author: BradA Date: 02/22/2005
From Houston .NET User's Group
On last Wednesday night I got the opportunity to speak at the Houston Dot Net Users Group. There was...
Author: BradA Date: 02/21/2005
BradA's Top 10 .NET books [in Beta]
I get asked frequently what .NET books I recommend on a given topic. Although I love reading .NET...
Author: BradA Date: 02/21/2005
BradA's Top Book List [Week of 2/21/2005]
All (BradA's Top List) Rank(All)CoverTitleSales Rank (lower is better) Buzz (higher is better) 1....
Author: BradA Date: 02/21/2005
From Bay.NET user's group
On Tuesday night I spoke at the Bay.NET User’s group where we had a good turnout even though there...
Author: BradA Date: 02/20/2005
To use a slide template or not??
Last week for my presentation to the Dallas .NET User’s Group I chose to use a blank slide template....
Author: BradA Date: 02/14/2005
Designing great frameworks training: Designing Inherence hierarchies
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on Designing Inheritance hierarchies....
Author: BradA Date: 02/14/2005
From the Dallas user's group meeting
I had a great time presenting last night to the Dallas .NET User’s Group. We had just about 200...
Author: BradA Date: 02/11/2005
Resource management
[Copy of orginal message found on the Develop archives: Resource management] Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000...
Author: BradA Date: 02/11/2005
WinFX CTP here we come...
As Rudder say, we are well on our way to getting the first combined CTP drop of Indigo and Avalon...
Author: BradA Date: 02/09/2005
weblogs.asp.net/ aliased to blogs.msdn.com/
I am sure many of you know this, but I recently told someone and they were surprised to learn that...
Author: BradA Date: 02/08/2005
Convert DateTime to ODBC time format
Recent question on this side of the firewall… Want a datetime in this format?...
Author: BradA Date: 02/07/2005
Raleigh, NC area presentation: Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
Ok, honestly, I think this is the last one ;-) The “big show” ends its run in my home town, Raleigh,...
Author: BradA Date: 02/07/2005
Designing great frameworks training: Member Types
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on Member Types. Thanks for watching...
Author: BradA Date: 02/05/2005
Austin area presenation: Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
Boy, I am getting mileage out of this talk! Same show, this time in Austin… As part of my FrontLine...
Author: BradA Date: 02/01/2005
"Best of" from the naming conventions chat...
Today I reviewed the chat transcript from last weeks following up from the Naming Conventions...
Author: BradA Date: 02/01/2005
Houston Area presenation: Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
As part of my FrontLine trip I will be speaking at the Houston Dot Net Users Group …If you are in...
Author: BradA Date: 02/01/2005
The .NET Framework brings you Super Bowl XXXIX
Well, at least the opening sequence… ;-) By using Windows® SharePoint® Services, Windows Server...
Author: BradA Date: 01/31/2005
About Int32's DontTouchThis()
On a recent post, someone asked about the Int32.DontTouchThis() method.. I thought more folks would...
Author: BradA Date: 01/31/2005
Designing great frameworks training: Rich Type System
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on A Rich Type System. Thanks for...
Author: BradA Date: 01/31/2005
Dallas area presenation: Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
As part of my FrontLine trip I will be speaking at the Dallas .NET User's Group …If you are in the...
Author: BradA Date: 01/28/2005
The .NET Celebrity Auction on EBay...
I must say, very cool. The folks at thinktecture have put together an auction of 1 hour of...
Author: BradA Date: 01/27/2005
OK, I give. Here are a set of internal coding guidelines
We had a great chat today following up from the Designing .NET Class Libraries session on Naming...
Author: BradA Date: 01/26/2005
Internal Coding Guidelines
Table of Contents 1....
Author: BradA Date: 01/26/2005
Bay Area Presenation: Effective .NET Framework based development: Exception handing and Memory Management
As part of my FrontLine trip I will be speaking at the Bay.NET User Group…If you are in the area,...
Author: BradA Date: 01/26/2005
Do all programmers speak english?
I got in a little discussion with a colleague tonight about how many non-English speaking developers...
Author: BradA Date: 01/24/2005
Designing great frameworks training: Naming Conventions
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on naming conventions. Thanks for...
Author: BradA Date: 01/21/2005
Writing a compiler for the CLR??
I wanted to extend Jim Miller’s innovation to attend the CLR compiler’s dev lab… From: Jim Miller...
Author: BradA Date: 01/21/2005
Its an honor just to be nominated :-)
Check out .NET Developer's Journal Interactive 2004 Readers' Choice Awards Voting Ballot,,, Lots of...
Author: BradA Date: 01/19/2005
Out on the FrontLine
For most of the month of February I will be participating in what promises to be a very interesting...
Author: BradA Date: 01/19/2005
Romania to get love from the CLR team
JasonZ, The PUM of the CLR team is headed to Romania for a little user group fun and some...
Author: BradA Date: 01/18/2005