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Cool Shirt

Jim points out a very cool T-Shirt.

Gotta get me one of those.

What would you like to see in Whidbey!

Eric Gunnerson has an interesting post about some possible changes Microsoft are considering for Whidbey.  Eric Says: 

"In VS 2002, whenever you double-click on a form file in solution explorer, the project system always opens the form designer on that file.  We are considering modifying the behavior in Whidbey so that the project system will track the most-recently-viewed state for the file. If you had most recently looked at the code view, double-clicking would take you to the code view. If you had most recently looked at the design view, double-clicking would take you to the design view. This state would not be persisted across closing and reopening the project."

Some interesting points in the comments.  Something to keep an eye on I think as I can see it turning into a 'What would you like to see in Whidbey" thread.

Here goes...

Many thanks to Donny for the help in getting this blog set up.  I have spent the last 6 months reading numerous blogs (mostly .Net related) to appreciate the advantages, not only to others who will (hopefully!) read my posts but for myself to be able to 'serialize' (couldn't think of a better word) my thoughts and experiences for later retrieval.

Having downloaded a copy of .Text a while ago I hadn't actually got around to installing and running it before, but I must say I'm very impressed.  Thanks must go to Scott for this.

Anyway, slightly off the .Net topic, I recently downloaded Office 2003 Beta and must point out one feature of Outlook that I can now not do without and that is the non-intrusive way of informing you of an incoming email by displaying a translucent box of the sender and the first line of the mail.  What is the key part of this feature is that the focus isn't taken away from your current window as with previous versions.  I remember all to well the number of times that I have been busy typing (yes, I must look at the screen more often) only to find that a dialog box had popped up 6 or 7 words ago.

Getting to the .Net angle I can see this being a useful addition to an asynchronous Windows Form, for example, and wondered if anyone had any ideas how to implement this.

Would just like to add that I have been using Snippet Compiler lately, fantastic addition to the developer toolbox.  Jeff blogs about the latest release here.