I just released version 0.5.0 of VsVim: a vim emulation editor extension for Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 written in F#. This is a hobby project I’ve been working on for awhile now. I expect to continue updating this release as time goes on as I use it on a daily basis and I’m interested in getting back feedback from users on it.

As the owner of the VB.Net portion of the overall debugging experience, I frequently hear the request from customers to add LINQ support into the Watch / Immediate and Locals window. Virtually every other type of expression is available in the debugger windows so why leave one of the most popular ones out?

Psychic classes have the appearance of ignoring data provided to it in an attempt to provide you with an answer they predict is better for the situation.’? It’s impossible to look at a the data provided to an instance of the class and understand what queries on the object will return because it may think of a better answer for you, or a better piece of data to look at.

I was playing around in the registry the other day and found the PowerShell API lacking in a key area. There does not appear to be a good way to detect the presence of a Registry Name/Value pair. All of the operations such as New, Delete, Rename are based off of the program knowing the presence or absence of the key before hand. This lacks symmetry with the rest of the APIs which have a test style function.

Today Microsoft announced a new search engine called bing. I’ve been dogfooding this engine internally for some time now and from my experience it’s a step up from the previous engine in both functionality and appearance. It’s definitely worth playing around with for awhile.