Hil's managed code development

Good practices in the life of software development

Android Development Ready

I bought Google Nexus 4 last month and convinced 2 other female friends to buy the same model. All...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 03/14/2013

MSFT Office, SQL, Azure team interviews

I decided to write a post about the interview questions forSDE 2 (level 61) positions at Microsoft....

Author: Hil Liao Date: 03/06/2013

Experiencing Windows Azure 0

It’s been a while since I looked at Windows Azure. Recently I received an employee pass to use...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 04/12/2012

Custom Developed Home Alarm System

Introduction: It all started from a break in A few weeks ago, an intruder broke into my house. My...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 12/21/2011

Android Development Proof of Concept

I started experiencing Android development with Eclipse and my Samsung Galaxy s 4G I rooted and...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 11/20/2011

Count the number of combinations that add to a given sum in an int array

My roommate Long Tran gave me a coding problem he found on the Internet this afternoon. I first did...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 06/27/2010

Visual Studio 2010 x64 code coverage

The internal code coverage tool I was talking about in my previous post has been shipped with Visual...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 06/17/2010

UIAutomationClient

In the other blog about UI automation, I forgot to mention how to add the reference and should have...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 06/17/2010

Load Code Coverage Data to SQL database

Load Code Coverage Data to SQL database Use Visual Studio’s code coverage tools to obtain the...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 10/03/2008

Test .NET library using PowerShell and Visual Studio Debugger

Often times, when a developer builds a C# library, there is always a need for unit testing it. If...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 09/15/2008

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit example

There are situations where you don’t want user to click on a button twice too fast or on a checkbox...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 09/10/2008

Common Tasks in Developing ASP.NET Application

I mentioned developing an ASP.NET website in the first blog. ASP.NET is a sophisticated architecture...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 09/05/2008

System.Windows.Automation

It has always been difficult to solve UI automation problems. There are many UI automation...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 08/20/2008

Code Coverage using Visual Studio 2008’s Code Coverage tools

The code coverage tools in Visual Studio have existed since 2005 in the Team Developer and Tester...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 08/19/2008

PowerShell for system administration work

Since Windows Server 2000, VB script has been the primary language for doing system administration...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 08/12/2008

ASP.NET 2.0 and LINQ

I have been developing and maintaining an internal website at Microsoft IT which monitors the status...

Author: Hil Liao Date: 08/11/2008