StyleCop Analyzers 1.0.0 was declared stable today! github.com/DotNetAnalyzers/S…

I'm so embarrassed by @Microsoft adding a subscription model to solitaire via Microsoft Solitaire Collection. For anyone else who's lost hours explaining to another generation why they shouldn't click on the ads, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. ☹️

This is a good example of where everyone benefits by publicly documenting something instead of just writing something in an internal employee resource document. 👍

I thought I was a big fan of integration tests minimizing mocks for accurate testing of real world conditions, but @hbomax takes it to the next level 😂

Czech one more item off the list of things from back home (Texas) I've now made myself during quarantine

I love when I'm in an internal meeting, and the presenter is talking about how much they care being the best on some topic that I remember was really useful to me back when I was just a customer.

Pro-tip: Software developers on Windows should enable automatic local crash dumps for applications they work on, to allow post-mortem investigation of bugs proving difficult to reproduce: gist.github.com/sharwell/95d…

I'll take "credit" for this one. 😂 It'll be tamed for the 16.6 Preview 3 release, but in the meantime we'd love to hear what works and what doesn't!

Interested in trying the new Nullable Reference Types features but stuck with .NET Framework (desktop) or older .NET Standard targets? I built an experimental tool to use the latest annotated features from the core libraries: github.com/tunnelvisionlabs/…

If you run a system with many processors (16+), you may find Server GC improves Visual Studio responsiveness. The difference I observed on Threadripper 2 was substantial: gist.github.com/sharwell/a79…

Pro-tip: Use this button to switch to folder view if you want to open/edit repository files that aren't part of your normal Solution Explorer view:

Overheard in a meeting: "MIDI"

Today's task: searching "gacutil microsoft․build.framework" to find people who are breaking Visual Studio. It's never a good idea to GAC assemblies that you didn't originally publish. The original authors' versioning policies likely depend on this for correctness.

Maybe it's just me, but on a subjective interview question I would much rather a candidate answer according to how they see it than attempt to give an answer they think I want to hear.