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7/17/2020

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Code, rants and ramblings of a programmer.

As you may have noticed my blog has been a little stale over the last few years. A large part of...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 05/12/2014

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about peoples interview processes and it inspired me to share...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/06/2014

Visual Studio 2012 introduced project file round tripping feature. This lets developers edit...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/04/2013

For the last 6 months the BCL team has been hard at work shipping an out of band release of...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/02/2013

The 5.0 release of C# introduced the await keyword which makes it extremely easy to use...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/11/2013

During a review of some low level bit manipulation logic a developer raised a question about...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 08/28/2012

As I’ve developed VsVim over the years I’ve authored quite a few reusable Visual Studio...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 05/07/2012

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/01/2011

The DebuggerDisplayAttribute is a powerful way to customize the way values are displayed at debug...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 03/18/2011

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 03/14/2011

One of my favorite C++ features, and one I feel is terribly underutilized in many code bases, is the...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 03/01/2011

Not to long ago I received an email from a customer who wanted to report a bug in the VB.Net...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/24/2011

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/12/2011

A feature which seems to be getting more requests recently is support for seeing the return value of...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/12/2011

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 11/30/2010

Earlier this week I started writing a function which needed to represent three states in the return...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 11/18/2010

In a recent post I discussed the apparent flakiness of extension methods and the debugger being a...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 10/18/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 10/14/2010

F#’s seq<T> expressions are a frustrating item to inspect at debug time. A seq<T>...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 09/10/2010

Interop of delegate style types between F# and other .Net languages is a pain point that results...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/27/2010

Multi-targeting is a feature introduced in Visual Studio 2008 which allows developers to use new...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/23/2010

One source of confusion I find myself clearing up a lot is the use of evaluating extension methods...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/22/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 07/09/2010

One pattern I’ve started running into is developers explicitly throwing a NullReferenceException...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/28/2010

Shortly after Visual Studio 2010 shipped I wanted to experiment with the new VSIX format for...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/10/2010

A question came up recently on stack overflow concerning the display of newlines in the immediate...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/08/2010

After 4+ years on the languages team it’s time for me to move onto the next adventure. I...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/07/2010

One item I find to be limiting in C# is the new generic constraint. The syntax construct...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/04/2010

Some readers may remember an article I published almost half a year ago about LINQ being absent from...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/02/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010. This is available on the extension...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/01/2010

Recently the MSDN blog architecture got a long overdue update to a new infrastructure. Most of...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 06/01/2010

In a previous post I discussed how accessibility is ignored when evaluating expressions in the...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 05/19/2010

The goal of the debugger is to provide rich inspection capabilities for a process. The main...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 05/17/2010

Getting equality correct on a .Net type is a fairly involved process involving adherence to a large...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 04/30/2010

One of the methods I find to be the most useful in .Net is the method...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 03/23/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 RC. This should be available shortly...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 03/15/2010

One piece of feedback I heard in the MVP sessions this week is that debugging deep class hierarchies...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/19/2010

I just released a quick update to VsVim which moves it to the Visual Studio 2010 RC build. ...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/09/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. This should be available shortly...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/04/2010

Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to handle some events in F# in a special way. ...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/03/2010

If you can’t tell from reading entries in my blog I’m a bit of a script junkie. I loathe...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 02/02/2010

One of the overlooked or simply misunderstood features of the VB language is calling a function...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/21/2010

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. This should be available...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 01/03/2010

One of my current hobby projects, VsVim, requires me to make a lot of calls between F# and C#...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/15/2009

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. This should be available...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/14/2009

One of the more frequent questions I answer on StackOverflow is a variation of the following. ...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/10/2009

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. This should be available...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/06/2009

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at Dev Connections. I’ve posted the material for...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 12/02/2009

I just released an update to VsVim for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. This should be available...

Author: JaredPar MSFT Date: 11/30/2009

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