Create "Notepad" in 12 minutes in this tutorial
Oct 12, 2004
Okay, I admit that it’s not as fully featured as Notepad, but if you want to learn about some of the IDE features in C# 2005 and you’re a little hesitant to install beta software on your machin, then this tutorial is for you. **It’s interactive! **Rather then reading an article or watching a non-interactive video, this tutorial walks you through actually building a simplified version of Notepad using Visual C# Express.…more
C# Team Changes
Aug 12, 2004
[No time to blog, my blog queue is floating around 48 items] Joe Nalewabau and Eric Gunnerson are both moving on to other teams at Microsoft. This sucks, they’re great to work with, both rock-star speakers and will be sorely missed. Best of luck to them in their new jobs :) [back to work]
Summer of Express contest entries are coming in
Aug 05, 2004
Cool stuff….The first couple of entries are starting to trickle in for the Summer of Express Contest. This should be sweet!!
Mac Developers using C#
Aug 05, 2004
Jeff McManus, eBay evangelist points out that C#/Mono was in the top five dev tools for Mac. It’s since slipped but still floats around the top 25. Excellent :)
Whiteboard with Anders (this time it's up for good)
Jul 30, 2004
I blogged about how this was up a while ago, but it’s now officially back up and should hopefully be working for everyone. MSDN TV Whiteboard with Anders
Channel9 - Anders Hejlsberg - Programming Data in C# 3.0
Jul 27, 2004
Anders talks about some of the data integration capabilities coming for C# 3.0 in this Channel9 video.
Pulling Images from Google using C# Express
Jul 26, 2004
***** Updated Jan 23, 2006 ***** I finally got around to updating this for the final release of Visual Studio 2005. Download the updated code here My Channel9 video that uses Visual C# Express to pull images from images.google.com is now available. You can find the video on Channel9 and download the code here Walkthrough I’ll use this blog post to walk through the basics of the application and point out Whidbey features along the way.…more
Differences between Express and VS 2005
Jul 15, 2004
Soma points out a new MSDN page that shows the differences between Express, Pro and Visual Studio Team System.
Mono RTM & C-Omega Compiler available
Jul 14, 2004
Late to the wire with these, but in case you didn’t know Mono has officially hit version 1.0 and the C-Omega compiler is available for download Mono Release Notes Mono download C-Omega Compiler Preview Web site C-Omega download
Manual/Offline Installation of Express!!
Jul 09, 2004
First, a quick “thank you” to the 57 people who took the time to vote on this suggestion on the MSDN Product Feedback site as well as everyone else who suggested this on blogs, Channel9, and elsewhere, but the Express products are now available for manual download. To install manually, go to whichever Express product you are interested in, then select the Having trouble downloading? Click here for manual installation instructions.…more