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Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:55 PM

More on inlining...

Just came across this: Method Inlining There is a cost associated with method calls; arguments need to be pushed on the stack or stored in registers, the method prolog and epilog need to be executed and so on. The cost of these calls can be avoided for
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Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:22 PM

Why doesn't C# have an 'inline' keyword?

I got this question in email today, and I thought I'd share my response. For those of you who don't know, the 'inline' keyword in the C language was designed to control whether the compiler inlined a function into the calling function. For example, if
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:38 PM

Two more bloggers

Two more people: Grant Richins Dan Fernandez
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:10 PM

Sneak Preview of Visual C# Whidbey

A new post on the MSDN dev center gives a great overview of the new features coming up in Whidbey (though there are a few language surprises that aren't in that doc that I hope to cover soon).
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:01 AM

C# Feature Request - index available within foreach

dom (at least I think it's 'dom' - he's made a fair effort not to have his name anywhere on his blog page) asks for a language feature, and I respond
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:32 AM

Another C# blogger

Jim Griesmer
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:56 PM

Win32 API to .NET mapping

Brad Abrams talks about this new page on MSDN.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:01 PM

I'm worried

I usually don't post on stories that are related to politics, but I'm going to make an exception for this .
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:45 PM

We've got blogs...

A number of new C# bloggers have showed up this week, and I promised I'd give some “props” for all my “homies” before they entered the “blogsphere” and are“assimilated”.(”Word!”) (And yes, if
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Monday, January 26, 2004 5:26 PM

Misc Athletic stuff

Saturday morning, I did a 90 minute ride, and I am happy to say that I have finally gotten used to my new pedals (SPD-SLs), and new shoes (Nike <whatevers>). Very comfortable, and a lot easier to get into and out of than my old normal SPDs. You
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Monday, January 26, 2004 2:14 PM

Anders Inteview: Generics in C#, Java, and C++

Part VII of Anders' interview series on artima is up...
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Friday, January 23, 2004 1:49 PM

blogs.msdn.com

You can access the microsoft blogs that are currently on asp.net on http://blogs.msdn.com . Mine is at http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu . The msdn address is probably more likely to persist in the long run, so it's a better choice than the ASP one.
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Friday, January 23, 2004 1:44 PM

Comparing CLR, Mono, SSCLI and JAVA Performance

Comparing CLR, Mono, SSCLI and JAVA Performance
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:55 AM

Testing the C# Compiler

How many tests does the C# compiler team have? Take a guess, and then go read Gus' post “ Testing the C# Compiler ”. Gus used to work for me when I was the C# compiler test lead, and he became test lead when I went to the gray side to be a
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:16 PM

Rocketry and Soccer...

Early in September, I got a injury on my big toe while playing soccer. Well, it wasn't while playing soccer, it was practicing soccer, but those are really the same thing. Actually, to be honest, it was while coaching soccer, which still requires a fair
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:20 AM

Destructors and Finalization revisited

Most of the commentors on my destructors and finalizers post figured out the reason why we went with the destructor syntax - so that we could ensure that the base class destructor gets called. A few comments on the comments: Jeroen Frijters has some comments
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Monday, January 19, 2004 1:20 PM

C# Coding Guidelines

I've been in a discussion today with one of our customers on good C# coding guidelines/standards, and I confess to not having any good references to give him. He was nice enough to send me a link to one that he thought was good, which happens to be by
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Monday, January 19, 2004 10:46 AM

Helmet == Good

I've put in a ton of miles on my motorcycle, and a fair number on my bicycle, and thankfully, never found myself in a situation where I needed the helmet that I was always wearing. Yesterday, however,while skiing quickly (and fairly well, I might add...)
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Friday, January 16, 2004 10:57 AM

Whither "Ask a Language Designer"?

Simon wrote: “Any chance of the "ask the designers" column starting up again on your MSN community site?” The answer to that question is “Yes”, I'm hoping to get something more regular than once a year up there in the near future,
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Friday, January 16, 2004 10:41 AM

A Glove Story

I've been working the past few nights wearing a pair of IronClad gloves. Nice, comfortable, and no problems tossing around 2x4s or sheets of plywood. I can even open a can of my favorite beverage without taking them off (okay, I'll confess, my favorite
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Friday, January 16, 2004 10:29 AM

Why destructors and not just Finalize()?

In one of the comments, Niall said: “I am curious as to why the C# syntax for a finalizer is the destructor syntax. It doesn't bother me one way or another, but I am still curious.” So I thought I'd devote a bit of time to that question. Say
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:54 PM

...unreceptive to change...

In my “ Minus 100 points ” article, Shawn took me to task for the reasons why we didn't put 'with' in the language. Unreceptive to change is, when I think about it a bit, probably a true statement. We are fairly unreceptive to change - it
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:45 AM

Funny post about google searches

Rory Blyth posts these thoughts about google searches...
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Monday, January 12, 2004 12:59 PM

Minus 100 points

When I switched over the C# compiler team, I had hoped that I would be able to give some insight into how the design team works, what decisions we make, etc. Language design is a very esoteric field, and there's not a lot written about it (though “Design
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