RE: Conditional builds of arbitrary files

2023-12-04 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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 have used

RE: Conditional builds of arbitrary files

2023-12-04 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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

RE: Blazor css overrides

2023-11-30 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-08 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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

RE: A real C++ vs C# story

2023-08-31 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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

RE: SQL Server Performance monitoring

2023-07-30 Thread David Kean via ozdotnet
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

2023-04-11 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Random server slowdowns

2022-12-02 Thread David Kean
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

2022-11-10 Thread David Kean
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 Low ; David

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

2022-11-10 Thread David Kean
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 various issues

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

2022-11-10 Thread David Kean
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 a

RE: Visual Studio 17.4.0 side effects

2022-11-10 Thread David Kean
@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

RE: Platform x64 argument

2022-10-12 Thread David Kean
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

Re: [OT] Stephen Toub's impacts

2022-09-01 Thread David Kean
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

RE: VS2022 recent list stall

2022-08-30 Thread David Kean
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! I finally

RE: VS2022 recent list stall

2022-08-29 Thread David Kean
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: VS2022 recent list stall

2022-08-29 Thread David Kean
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

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

2022-07-05 Thread David Kean
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

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

2022-06-28 Thread David Kean
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 around

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

2022-06-28 Thread David Kean
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

2022-06-23 Thread David Kean
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. --

RE: DLL Hell

2021-10-27 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Publish conditional

2021-08-11 Thread David Kean
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

2021-06-04 Thread David Kean
* 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

RE: Switching VS2019 targets

2020-05-01 Thread David Kean
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

2020-04-22 Thread David Kean
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:

RE: Nuspec file for netstandard2.0

2020-04-21 Thread David Kean
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

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

2019-02-18 Thread David Kean
.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

2019-01-30 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Visual Studio breaking everywhere

2018-10-15 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Web debugging problem

2018-05-08 Thread David Kean
Greg, the dev stated below: From: Bill Hiebert Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 2:04 AM To: David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> 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 th

RE: Web debugging problem

2018-05-07 Thread David Kean
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,

RE: Visual Studio item commands

2017-09-26 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Visual Studio 2017 and WWF

2017-08-24 Thread David Kean
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

RE: VS2017 start page

2017-08-09 Thread David Kean
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

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-11 Thread David Kean
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

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread David Kean
t.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, 3 July 2017 4:30 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: [OT] New surface lap

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread David Kean
dotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, 3 July 2017 4:30 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: RE: [OT] New surface laptop (I wor

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread David Kean
(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

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

2017-04-05 Thread David Kean
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.

RE: Ozdotnet list

2017-04-05 Thread David Kean
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:

RE: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-19 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Target x86/x64

2016-11-29 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Office 365 platforms

2015-10-20 Thread David Kean
> ?! 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

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

2015-08-13 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

2015-08-12 Thread David Kean
of serious work. That’s a lot of crashes each day.. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 2:41 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

2015-08-12 Thread David Kean
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. :)

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

2015-08-12 Thread David Kean
a frown that 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 david.k...@microsoft.commailto: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

RE: Visual Studio 2015 complaints

2015-08-12 Thread David Kean
it’s still marked as active) that they just haven’t managed to get back around to this yet. ☺ Ed. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 3:12 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet

Anyone using VS 2015, thoughts?

2015-07-23 Thread David Kean
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.

2015-06-03 Thread David Kean
(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.

2015-04-27 Thread David Kean
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,

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

2015-01-02 Thread David Kean
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

RE: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-17 Thread David Kean
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,

.NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread David Kean
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

RE: [OT] Quiet

2014-09-18 Thread David Kean
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

RE: A Disposable warning

2014-08-21 Thread David Kean
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:

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

2014-07-07 Thread David Kean
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

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

2014-07-07 Thread David Kean
-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: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread David Kean
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

RE: debugging object

2014-05-20 Thread David Kean
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

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

2014-05-09 Thread David Kean
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=UTF8qid=1399655625sr=8-1keywords=dt-770+pro for work. The most comfortable headphones I’ve even worn. They don’t have active noise cancelling but they still are

RE: Microsoft Reference Source

2014-05-09 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Microsoft Reference Source

2014-05-09 Thread David Kean
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:

RE: Visual Studio Macros stopped working?

2014-03-05 Thread David Kean
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:

RE: TFS Build in the Cloud

2014-02-20 Thread David Kean
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 encountered

RE: TFS Build in the Cloud

2014-02-19 Thread David Kean
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

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

2014-02-12 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Migrating TFS

2014-02-11 Thread David Kean
(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 ...

2014-02-05 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Visual Studio 2013 forgets open files

2014-01-27 Thread David Kean
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 david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: I can't repro

RE: Visual Studio 2013 forgets open files

2014-01-26 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Mixing platforms

2014-01-15 Thread David Kean
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,

RE: Mixing platforms

2014-01-15 Thread David Kean
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: compression library

2013-11-04 Thread David Kean
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 david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: System.IO.Compression

RE: In [delayed] praise of NuGet

2013-10-25 Thread David Kean
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

RE: compression library

2013-10-03 Thread David Kean
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?

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

2013-10-02 Thread David Kean
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

RE: MSDN mag

2013-09-30 Thread David Kean
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

2013-09-24 Thread David Kean
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

RE: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread David Kean
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

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

2013-09-13 Thread David Kean
...@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 - string, you have two copies of the same data (one for the byte

RE: out of memory..urgent

2013-09-10 Thread David Kean
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

RE: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-03 Thread David Kean
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

2013-08-27 Thread David Kean
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: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system

2013-08-19 Thread David Kean
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

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

2013-08-19 Thread David Kean
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 david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Grant, do you know if this is still true

RE: Deflate Zip library care

2013-07-18 Thread David Kean
That's my team. :) Unfortunately, while we have deflate/gzip (uncompress-only) support for Silverlight for HTTP responses, we didn't add ZIP compression support for Silverlight. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Kennedy Sent:

RE: Deflate Zip library care

2013-07-18 Thread David Kean
: 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.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, 19

RE: Silverlight challenge

2013-06-28 Thread David Kean
Silverlight 4 (or was it 5) added COM support, specifically for what you want to do; automate office. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 6:49 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Silverlight challenge Folks, we

RE: Move documentation from one TFS Project Portal to another

2013-05-20 Thread David Kean
Grant? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:36 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Move documentation from one TFS Project Portal to another Greetings, I posted in OzTFS yesterday but it's awfully quiet in there... I

RE: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-10 Thread David Kean
What makes you say it’s not “Google”? Try searching for something obscure a lot of on Google (say door handles), notice that YouTube will showing you ads related to it. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Friday, May 10,

RE: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-06 Thread David Kean
DPAPI is supposed to handle password changes and resets: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309408#7. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 2:53 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Windows forgetting app passwords On

RE: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-06 Thread David Kean
And by that, I mean it sounds like it gets notifications from AD, not just from the local machine. From: David Kean Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 10:06 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Windows forgetting app passwords DPAPI is supposed to handle password changes and resets: http

RE: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list and why?

2013-05-03 Thread David Kean
We provide full-featured Express editions (Phone, Win8, Desktop Web) that are free, have you looked at those? -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:07 AM To:

RE: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list and why?

2013-05-03 Thread David Kean
my original question that I asked you guys. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 1:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list

RE: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-17 Thread David Kean
That is not true. JavaScript/HTML is nowhere close to .NET in the store. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:47 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro? Then why are the

RE: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread David Kean
We have no intention on delivering a x64 version. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 2:05 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt

RE: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread David Kean
of VS2012 produces x64 code, but certain aspects of VS2012 are poorly integrated with its production. Resource editing with controls, for instance. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: We have no intention on delivering a x64

RE: Async coding pattern

2013-03-03 Thread David Kean
Events are still events you can't replace them with the new 4.0 threading. Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 3 mars 2013, at 05:18, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Why still using event based async, when you can use async/await in Silverlight? http

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