Category Archives: Visual Studio 2010

Speaking at the Austin .Net Users Group

Posted on April 9, 2011 by

I will be speaking at the Austin .Net Users Group on Monday April 11th on parallel programming and the .Net 4 framework.   Please come by if you want to learn something about parallel programming and for some great conversations. … Continue reading →

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Leading with Arrogance, not the way to do it!

Posted on November 19, 2010 by

Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and someone brings up code reviews?  Since I am a consultant, I have the opportunity to visit various clients, many of which don’t do any type of review. It is pretty interesting … Continue reading →

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Running an open spaces talk at devconnnections on parallel programming.

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

Tonight I had an opportunity to run an open spaces discussion on parallel programming.  I have a good time doing it and we had some good discussions. I asked the attendees who was familiar with the technology.  Only 1 person … Continue reading →

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Multicore applications just get easier with .Net 4 and Visual Studio 2010

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Designing for multicore architectures is hard.  I get that.  Multicore programming is hard as well.  I get that too.  I think that the big issue historically has been that when someone has gone through the process to architect and develop … Continue reading →

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It is not always a good thing to use parallelism…

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

  Many of us are trying to keep up with the technical features that Microsoft seems to be spewing out of Redmond these days.  I know that I struggle to keep up with the Beta this and the RC that, … Continue reading →

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My top keyboard shortcuts within Visual Studio

Posted on June 28, 2010 by

I thought that I would publish the features that I use most within Visual Studio: Ctrl+F – find all the references within the current code window Ctrl+Shift+F – used to find all references in files within VS F12 – Go … Continue reading →

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Dependency Graphs with VS 2010

Posted on June 19, 2010 by

For all those folks out there that either could not afford NDepend, or your organization choose not to use it, you can now use Visual Studio 2010 to visualize the dependencies in your code.  The Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack … Continue reading →

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