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Maze App in WPF

Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:43 PM by noahc
My colleague, Paul Harrington , has created a 3D maze in WPF (runs in the browser) that's certainly worth checking out.  The interesting thing is that it totally built using WPF Data Binding.  It has 3rd & 1st person views, and walks you Read More...
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Parallel Computing for .NET CTP Released

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:15 AM by noahc
The Parallel Computing Platform team has launched a new Parallel Computing Dev Center along with our the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of extensions to .NET for parallel computing. Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP download Soma's Read More...
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VSTS Profiler

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:22 PM by noahc
The Visual Studio Team System Profiler is a tool that helps find resource bottle necks in your application. Like slow code (CPU bottleneck), disk thrashing, memory allocation, etc. I'm on the team that builds the Profiler, so here are some Profiler goodies. Read More...
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Script Debugging Improvements in Orcas

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:56 AM by noahc
We've made some significant improvements to script debugging! The VS script debugger hasn't seen real improvements since VS6 (pre-.NET). Now with ASP.NET AJAX (MS' new AJAX framework), script debugging has caught a new wind. You can try these out in the Read More...
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Cool Developer Downloads

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:12 AM by noahc
What's better than free bits to make life better? As in life I'm refering to a developer's life in code. I was just digging around and found these golden nugets to share. The last two are non-Microsoft apps I've used for awhile. XML Notepad 2007 A little Read More...
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MSDN Wiki - Top Contributor is David M. Kean

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:12 AM by noahc
If you haven't checked it out yet, check out MSDN Library's Wiki ! It is the full MSDN Library, but allows the community to add comments to the end of each article. Some may argue it's not a "true wiki" in that you can not edit the original article or Read More...
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What Would Make Debugging Cool?

Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 1:01 PM by noahc
The Visual Studio Debugger is probably one of the most used dev tools in the world, but what could make it cool and exciting again? Visual Studio is the #1 dev tool, and regardless of language, they all use the same debugger. When you hit F5 to run your Read More...
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KANO Analysis - Prioritize Your Backlog

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 9:29 AM by noahc
A product I once worked on completely failed when it got into the customers hands and the business eventually went under, for one key engineering reason.  The product had too many customer dissatisfiers (missing key features, broken workflow, etc) Read More...
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Profiling a Unit Test

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:12 AM by noahc
A little known feature of VSTS Team Developer is the ability to use the run-time analysis of the Profiler specifically targetting the code in a Unit Test. There are a two key scenarios this integration feature targets: Collect Performance Data on Specific Read More...
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