RE: Approaching obsolescence

Greg, what would OzDotNet/AusDotNet be without you on it? It’s been a pleasure interacting with you here and catching up at various events (including an airport in the Whitsundays!) over the past 20 odd years. Enjoy that retirement. Don’t be a stranger. From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet Sent: Mond

RE: Conditional builds of arbitrary files

Awesome. I'll see ya at DDD. From: Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 2:30 PM To: David Kean Cc: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Conditional builds of arbitrary files Look at VS Text Templates, or we sometimes make use the C-preprocessor. Bingo! I'm a big fan of T4 templates and

RE: Conditional builds of arbitrary files

Look at VS Text Templates, or we sometimes make use the C-preprocessor. From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 11:59 AM To: ozDotNet Cc: Greg Keogh Subject: Conditional builds of arbitrary files Folks, the MSBuild process provides Condition= and #if to provide lots of c

RE: Blazor css overrides

I just use Chrome's css tools to tell me the order in which things are getting evaluated. From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 3:51 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: Greg Keogh Subject: Blazor css overrides Folks, TGIF Our Blazor app has a simple classic shape with a local wwwroot/

RE: Blazor popularity and use

Greg can you forward me some context? Can’t promise anything, but I probably have a better chance of landing on the right person’s desk. From: Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 2:24 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: David Connors ; Greg Low Subject: RE: Blazor popularity and use Agre

RE: A real C++ vs C# story

Greg next time get a dump and you can use VS to debug it back on your own machine. The AV could be something as simple as de-referencing a null. Merge something like this into the registry https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/blob/main/docs/repo/content/AlwaysSaveDevEnvCrashDumps.reg just

RE: SQL Server Performance monitoring

How confident are you that it's a SQL query? Unpredictable "stalls" smells like garbage collection, likely a Gen2 blocking. A dump during the stall or better ETL trace using PerfView will quickly rule that out. From: Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet Sent: Monday, July 31, 2023 10:27 AM To: 'ozDotNet'

RE: VS2022 format all files

Both of these options can do this on a per solution, project, document basis. [cid:image001.png@01D96D2F.DBC4AB50] If you want to this via command-line, look at dotnet format. These all work better if you’ve got a good .editorconfig that calls the style

RE: Random server slowdowns

ETW trace via PerfView and possibly a dump. It could be anything, but this sort of thing over time is often due to a growing Gen2/LOH or thread pool starvation. Start a trace with PerfView with the default settings + Thread Time turned on and the buffer increase to 5000 MB and record for 1 min.

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

Offline I've started a conversation with folks that own the LTS policy, I can understand how this is all very murky - I read the policy and even I'm confused. From: David Kean via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 4:03 PM To: Nick Randolph ; Greg Keogh Cc: ozDotNet ; Greg L

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

dolph Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 1:10 PM To: David Kean ; Greg Keogh Cc: ozDotNet ; Greg Low Subject: RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects Lol... you've met workloads, right? Over the last 6 months I've had to switch sdk pinning on and off with almost regular routine due to

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

11, 2022 8:37 AM To: David Kean Cc: ozDotNet ; Nick Randolph ; Greg Low Subject: Re: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects @Greg Keogh<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com> How did the uninstall of the 6.0 SDK break your project? Are you pinning versions via global.json? I just accepted the update and

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

@Nick Randolph Your android bug is getting traction. @Greg Keogh How did the uninstall of the 6.0 SDK break your project? Are you pinning versions via global.json? From: Nick Randolph via ozdotnet Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 10:46 AM

RE: Platform x64 argument

Do you actually support/ship your app to run on x86-only or ARM environments? If not, it probably doesn’t matter and I would probably give this one and save the battles for other things. From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 9:46 AM To: ozDotNet Cc: Greg Keogh Subject

Re: [OT] Stephen Toub's impacts

I passed the feedback onto him. From: mike smith via ozdotnet Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 7:59 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: mike smith Subject: Re: [OT] Stephen Toub's impacts That can be uniquely impactful. :^} On Thu, 1 Sept 2022, 18:50 David Richards via ozdot

RE: VS2022 recent list stall

To: David Kean Cc: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2022 recent list stall Can you point me to the Find in Files bug and I'll check what's going on with it? I do know of a known bug for renamed files (due to Git branch switch or a real rename) that has been fixed but not yet released. Phew!

RE: VS2022 recent list stall

Can you help -> send feedback -> report a problem, choose the record option for the search. Can you point me to the Find in Files bug and I’ll check what’s going on with it? I do know of a known bug for renamed files (due to Git branch switch or a real rename) that has been fixed but not yet re

RE: VS2022 recent list stall

Tony, can you Report a Problem on the git line staging - they are monitoring feedback on it. From: Tony McGee via ozdotnet Sent: Monday, August 29, 2022 12:50 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Cc: Tony McGee Subject: Re: VS2022 recent list stall Heh, yeah VS2022 search text boxes appear to be a bit

Re: It's that time of year - F#

Side note, Roslyn's lack of support for F# is not the lack of tail calls, it's the symbol/syntax model isn't designed for a language that doesn't look like C# or VB. Roslyn does provide higher level features for F# (and Typescript) around diagnostics and workspace/file views but that's being slo

RE: It's that time of year - F#

I asked Don and he pointed me to https://github.com/fsprojects/fsharp-companies, which lists a few. From: David Kean via ozdotnet Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 8:11 AM To: David Burstin via ozdotnet Cc: David Burstin ; David Kean Subject: Re: It's that time of year - F# I'll ask

Re: It's that time of year - F#

I'll ask around and get back to you. From: David Burstin via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 3:40 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: David Burstin Subject: It's that time of year - F# Hi folks, It's been about a year since I asked, so here it is again. Does anyone know

RE: ozdotnet - New List Infrastructure

Also appreciate you keeping this alive. As a matter of interest, how many folks are still subscribed? Definitely was "the list" to be on early days of .NET. Looks like its attaching a txt file with every reply containing the following, not sure if that's intentional. -- ozdotnet

RE: DLL Hell

Greg, as a matter of interest, are you using PackageReference or packages.config for the NuGet binaries? That you have a reference to 4.2.0.0 of Threading.Extensions would imply me that you have a reference to something that doesn’t work on .NET Framework, that Package Reference should have caug

RE: Publish conditional

The old .NET Framework project system ignores conditions on Items/ItemGroups (Choose is a workaround). The new SDK-based project system doesn't suffer from this problem, and honors conditions on everything. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Wednesday, August

RE: Problem with VisualStudio.com repository from VS

* I can not add a second project to the solution and get source control to work! Can you expand on this via screen shots/error messages? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Greg Harris Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2021 10:59 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Problem with VisualStudio.c

RE: Switching VS2019 targets

The Solution Explorer tree does not currently show these other views (we’re looking at doing this in a future version), you can add the following to your project: Which will include these files that you’ve excluded below. For files that have #

RE: Nuspec file for netstandard2.0

That’s the same as File -> New as what I referred to below. What likely happened was that NuGet had cached the previous version of your “invalid” package and never picked up the new package. Change the version every build to avoid that (such as va Nerdbank.GitVersioning). From: ozdotnet-boun...

RE: Nuspec file for netstandard2.0

File -> New -> .NET Standard project -> right-click project and choose Pack. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Nuspec file for netstandard2.0 Does anyone here have a relatively simple error-free nuspec file t

RE: Legacy Asp.net application change from 32bit to 64bit

.NET Framework 1.1 was x86 only if IRC. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Tom P Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:04 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Legacy Asp.net application change from 32bit to 64bit Hi folks I’ve inherited a legacy web application, written originally in .net 1.1

RE: Blazor comments

We have no plans of porting Windows Forms & WPF to OSX or Linux, it will be Windows only. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 6:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Blazor comments I note with interest that they’re hiring people to migrate

RE: Visual Studio breaking everywhere

Make sure Enable Just My Code is turned on and .NET Framework source stepping is turned off. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 11:43 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Visual Studio breaking everywhere If it was xamarin, I'd say clean all

RE: Web debugging problem

Greg, the dev stated below: From: Bill Hiebert Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 2:04 AM To: David Kean Subject: RE: Web debugging problem Yes. Script debugging was disabled by default which means the debugger is not tracking the Browser anymore. To work around this, we added a feature which

RE: Web debugging problem

I’ve pinged the owners offline about this. The best way to track this, report this issue to us and have others up-vote it – would be to Help -> Send Feedback -> Report a Problem. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:19 AM To: ozDotNet Subje

RE: Visual Studio item commands

You can’t customize context menu per extension via the Customize menu. For Solution Explorer there’s basically three context menus; * Context menu shown when you right-click a project * Context menu shown when you right-click a file * Context menu shown when you right-click and you h

RE: Visual Studio 2017 and WWF

System.Workflow was originally released in .NET 3.0/Vista timeframe (2006) – but “RTM” designer support was added in VS 2008. It’s unfortunate that we need to deprecate features – but very little usage and non-trivial cost to move it to VS 2017 (due to the rewritten setup), the decision was made

RE: VS2017 start page

Greg, I’ve reached out internally to find the cause of the issue below. Can you do one thing for me, can you choose Help -> Send Feedback -> Report a Problem and tell us that you were experiencing crashes/delays? No need to repro the issue, this will let us capture some data to see the issues yo

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

Be mindful that has a m7 processor – not an i7. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tom Rutter Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:38 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] New surface laptop Nope still haven't got one, using the old lady's to get by. W

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

otnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, 3 July 2017 4:30 PM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: [OT] New surface laptop (I work for Microsoft) I purchased the i5, 256 GB one for my wife last week. First impressions, screen is

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

un...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, 3 July 2017 4:30 PM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: [OT] New surface laptop (I work for Microsoft) I purchased the i5, 256 GB one for my wife last week. First impressions

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

(I work for Microsoft) I purchased the i5, 256 GB one for my wife last week. First impressions, screen is really bright. The Alcantara cover is very different to what I thought it would be (less material-like than I thought). Much lighter and smaller when closed to my original Surface Book (min

RE: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

Assuming the design can’t be changed, I would separate the thing that modifies the configs into a separate exe that is marked as requiring elevation, you do that do that with a Windows Manifest: File -> Add New Item -> Application Manifest Change requestedExecutionLevel to the level you need. Fr

RE: Ozdotnet list

Been on this list for as long as I can remember (2002?), I don’t add much to the conversation but I do still listen and try to pipe in when I have value. I’m still a massive fan of the list format as I’m on a lot of them through work –it’s unlikely that I’ll follow the move to a forum. From: oz

RE: Friday Rant (today!)

I disagree. We use WIX significantly inside Visual Studio, and use it to build quite possible the largest in world using it (in terms of both packages and size). Office also used it for years. Complicated, yes. Amateurish is not the word I would use. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:

RE: Target x86/x64

Yes that’s correct. We don’t do anything different when you compile for AnyCPU vs x64 in C# or VB. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 11:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Target x86/x64 Old thread, b

RE: [OT] An administrator is needed to delete my desktop icons

There are really two desktop folders. An "All Users" folder, and a "Current User" folder, these are merged together to form the desktop as you see it. You typically need admin rights to install/remove shortcuts from the All Users folder, that's what you are likely running into. -Original Me

RE: Office 365 platforms

> ?! It's inconceivable that there could be much of a common code base, so it > must be a mind-boggling technical and logistical challenge to support all > those platforms. Anyone have inside info on this? Lot of hard work. Why don’t you use OneNote? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

I had a look at the bug, as I suspected it was routed incorrectly. I’ve moved the bug and assigned it to a team to look at it. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

Greg I asked about the zoom and was told that they did it at the same time they added pinch to zoom based on customer feedback. They are monitoring the reverse feedback, so be sure to Send-A-Frown if you prefer the previous behavior. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@o

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

t of crashes each day.. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 2:41 PM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subje

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

It probably is deliberate. I can ask tomorrow, but please do Frown it. If they see enough feedback about it, and they might option it. By the way, the first bug is this one: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/4019. You can even see the code change that my colleague made to fix it. :) From

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

(since it’s still marked as active) that they just haven’t managed to get back around to this yet. ☺ Ed. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 3:12 P

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 2:41 PM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints Thanks Greg. First is known and something w

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

t is legit should pay the finder a $1 or something. Greg will be a rich man On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Thanks Greg. First is known and something we’re aware of, it will be fixed in the next VS Update. Second I’ve not heard, can yo

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

Thanks Greg. First is known and something we’re aware of, it will be fixed in the next VS Update. Second I’ve not heard, can you use the Send-A-Frown, we’re looking at these daily and this will get routed to the right team. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.c

Anyone using VS 2015, thoughts?

We released VS 2015 earlier this week: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs. Anyone downloaded it and played around with it?

RE: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

(Disclosure: I used to be on team that wrote MEF, and my current team (C#) use it extensively throughout Visual Studio and our components) As Scott mentioned, MEF is effectively an Dependency Injection/IoC container. Do a quick read up on the benefits/downfalls of DI, and the same things apply

RE: .NET/CLR on FreeBSD status update.

Thanks for the interest, this is pretty exciting for Microsoft and .NET community in general. If you have any questions around this feel free to shoot them at me. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Huntley Sent: Monday, April 27, 201

RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

the .NET core refactoring? I'm planning to make a VM to try VS2015 this weekend. Greg K On 3 January 2015 at 12:03, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: The next version of universal apps is going to be lovely. We’ll have a single Windows and .NET surface area across a

RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

The next version of universal apps is going to be lovely. We’ll have a single Windows and .NET surface area across all Windows 10 devices, and we’ll be filling a bunch of the glaring gaps (including WCF, local database – we’ll have EF running over SQLLite, file IO, crypto). As part of .NET Core

RE: VS2013 Windows Phone project

Windows 7 doesn’t provide the hooks that makes the design-time environment for Phone work. When you design on Phone, you’re actually designing on top of Windows 8 XAML stack. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, Novembe

.NET Core is now open source

This is something that my immediate team has been pushing for a little while internally and finally announced yesterday: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx. This is going to be pretty massive for Microsoft and the community. It will be the biggest cod

RE: [OT] Quiet

We still very much focused on .NET. We’ve had our head down working on a bunch of things over the past 3 years; my two favorite things coming up that I believe will completely change .NET: .NET Native ASP.NET vNext (in particular “CoreCLR”) There is something very common with bo

RE: [OT] Surface

Never heard of it, I should check it out… From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:45 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Surface Another possibility is that people are using other channels to have

RE: A Disposable warning

Be aware that this is not always true. The GC knows nothing about handles, only memory. Given a machine with enough memory, not a lot of GC pressure and long lived, you can run out of handles. This is why we have “hacks” like the HandleCollector class: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#Syst

RE: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)?

-backlog-management-2-7-investigating.aspx From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 9:43 PM To: ozDotNet; Grant Holliday Subject: RE: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)? Grant? From

RE: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)?

Grant? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 6:18 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)? This morning all of us who logged into TFS (as opposed to were alre

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

I’ve got the zr30w. For that price below, I could easily buy another 2 with room as well as another GTX 580 to my dual SLI setup to drive them for the same price. Looks like I’ll be waiting for a while… From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Step

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

Which 30” are you running? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:07 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor Oh I just found a sharpness setting in with brightness and contrast w

RE: debugging object

For application crashes/exceptions, just let Watson do its job: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8103.application-crash-dump-analysis-windows-7.aspx. You can get very useful crash dumps that Visual Studio lets you debug into and inspect variables, objects, etc similar t

RE: Microsoft Reference Source

Thanks for bringing that up. We’re aware of that, we’re actively working to have that restriction lifted in the future. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Huntley Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 6:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft

RE: Microsoft Reference Source

Glad you like it! Feel free to pass any feedback on to me, my team owns it. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Jano Petras Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 4:14 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft Reference Source Yeah, I've been looking through

RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quietprogramming environment?

I just bought the DT 770 Pro: http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-770-PRO-250-ohms/dp/B0006NL5SM/ref=sr_1_1/186-6429839-8842704?ie=UTF8&qid=1399655625&sr=8-1&keywords=dt-770+pro for work. The most comfortable headphones I’ve even worn. They don’t have active noise cancelling but they still are v

RE: Visual Studio Macros stopped working?

Thanks. It's a known issue that we're tracking and coming up with a plan to address those VS customers affected by it. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Mark Hurd Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:41 PM To: ozDotNet

RE: TFS Build in the Cloud

Adding Chris and Grant's replies. From: Chris Patterson Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:28 AM To: Grant Holliday; David Kean; ozDotNet Subject: RE: TFS Build in the Cloud I haven't really considered it because it is outside the realm of the vast majority of the users that I have e

RE: TFS Build in the Cloud

Grant? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: TFS Build in the Cloud Does anyone know who would be the best person/team to contact at Microsoft in order to request some

RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

Silverlight/Jupiter (Windows XAML) started under ScottGu. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:00 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphe

RE: Migrating TFS

(We code a lot :)) As a matter of interest, by "old" stuff what are we referring to? Stephen/Grant what technologies/versions are you working with? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:50 PM To:

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

Consumer makes up just 4% of Microsoft’s revenue. Regardless of what happens, I think we’ll be okay. :) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:32 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Today w

RE: Visual Studio 2013 forgets open files

rable that happened. So unfortunately I can't give you any useful information to help diagnose the problem. I will keep an eye on it and let you know if I can report anything useful. Cheers Greg K On 27 January 2014 16:40, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: I can't r

RE: Visual Studio 2013 forgets open files

I can't repro it Greg, I'm trying a WPF project with the designer open and the same windows open when I repro the solution in VS2013. Can you call out the exact steps that it takes to repro and I'll get a bug filed. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On B

RE: Mixing platforms

There's a few different ways off the top of my head to do cross-process communication in .NET above and beyond what Windows provides (such as named pipes, RPC): - .NET Remoting - WCF - Raw HTTP via network loopback Just do a .NET search and you'll see a variety of

RE: Mixing platforms

If it's managed, and no native, why not a simple recompile? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:29 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Mixing platforms A windows process is either 32-bit or 64-bit, never

RE: [OT] SDK versions

You should rarely need to install to Windows SDKs directly yourself - VS will do it for you. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Molloy Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 3:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] SDK versions Hey Greg, I thi

RE: compression library

ides of another Server-Silverlight app pair. Of course I feel much safer using the same library on both sides and wouldn't expect incompatibilities like previously mentioned. Greg On 4 October 2013 09:16, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: System.IO.Compression namespace. F

RE: In [delayed] praise of NuGet

Install 2.7 and it’s on by default. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of osjasonrobe...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 12:11 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: In [delayed] praise of NuGet Thanks Greg, also you can enable the following in VS

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

FileIOPermission has nothing to do with the problem you are hitting; it refers to CAS-permissions which is a .NET only concept, and is used in partial trust environments such as Hosted ASP.NET. There have been zero changes in this area for .NET 4.5, are you saying you are seeing a behavior chan

RE: compression library

System.IO.Compression namespace. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 4:11 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: compression library Anyoe suggest a library to compress/decompress byte data? Anthon

RE: Virtual visual studio development machine – looking for some setup advice

Given I actually work on the product, I’m always blowing away Windows/VS/.NET builds and I work consistently in VMs, hosted both locally & on a remote server with 4 monitors. Some advice: 1) Don’t use Virtual PC or Virtual Server. Hyper-V is now the product to use. 2) Get Windows 8

RE: MSDN mag

To a degree, but I think that's more of a factor of what people are working on at the time and what they are comfortable with. For example, our team writes MSDN articles and we going to be talking about the new features that we just wrote, not existing areas that haven't been touched in years.

RE: Mark II

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again; Windows Client != Microsoft. It is but 1 of 15 billion dollar businesses (up from 8 in 2010). From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subj

RE: Expression Web

VS 2012 Update 2 adds RTM support for WPF + SL. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 7:42 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Expression Web I've not heard anything that indicates yes, the true marker for t

RE: out of memory..urgent...Solution

.@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 2:20 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: out of memory..urgent Memory isn't unlimited. Basically, when you convert from a byte array -> stri

RE: out of memory..urgent

Memory isn't unlimited. Basically, when you convert from a byte array -> string, you have two copies of the same data (one for the byte array and one for the string) in memory. What exactly are you doing? You are typically better off chunking and reading smaller amounts of data at a time. Use s

RE: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

> don't twit me about phones vs smartphones, noone buys dumbphones anymore. Smart phones only overtook dumb phones for the first time this year and Nokia was still one of the largest manufacturer of them. They however, are seeing a rapid decline. However, they also come over to Microsoft. This

RE: Silverlight on Windows 8

At release, only certain sites were allowed to use flash. They backed down on that and opened it up to all sites based on telemetry. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject:

RE: Future of .NET

Have faith my friends. Have faith. Do not confuse the strategy of a single p & l of that of the company or that of DevDiv. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Fut

RE: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system

licensing was dated 30 May this year. I am not aware that anything has changed. If it has changed then I would love to know as we would resurrect this project. On 20 August 2013 09:16, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Grant, do you know if this is still true? From: ozdotne

RE: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system

Grant, do you know if this is still true? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system We have looked at this from th

RE: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

Along with our entire dev team (> 50 devs), I ended up getting a Asus Zenbook with touch, and find myself using it a lot more than my surface: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230671. Beautiful light machine, and the screen looks even better than it does in the pictures.

RE: Deflate Zip library care

ubject: RE: Deflate Zip library care Time for an out-of-band release? .NET 4.5.1 was one such - you missed that? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean

  1   2   3   4   >