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SharePoint Designer, Free as in Beer by Bil Simser

I caught a couple of blog posts from here and here that had to make me do a double take. I’m not one for relaying gossip, but this information seems to be legit. As of April 1, 2009 SharePoint Designer will be free. Now if you go to the “official” site...
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Setting up Windows Live Writer with weblogs.asp.net by Bil Simser

Just a quick tip on anyone setting up the latest version of Windows Live Writer (14.0.8064.206) and publishing to http://weblogs.asp.net . By default, when you run the wizard it’ll stumble over the the autodetection so you’ll have to select your blog...

Goodbye PDA, It's Been Nice Knowing Ya by Bil Simser

I'm ditching my PDA (currently a BlackBerry Curve) and my laptop for note taking and going retro. For the past few years I've been taking notes in various digital media. Back when I had my Palm, I would do handwritten notes (sometimes trying to fight...

Transforming Tree Surgeon using the Adaptive Console Framework by Bil Simser

I'm a command line app junkie as I love working with it. I guess it's my DOS/Linux roots but I find things go faster when you're not dealing with a GUI and a mouse. Command line tools like NAnt and MSBuild have all sorts of options and syntax. Some of...

Terrarium, Terrarium, Terrarium by Bil Simser

I'm presenting a talk around Terrarium development at the Edmonton .NET User Group on September 25th. The talk is focused on upgrading a legacy app (1.1) to 2.0 (and beyond to 3.5 eventually), building and running your own Terrarium (complete with man...

Microsoft StyleCop, Totalitarian Rules by Bil Simser

I got turned onto a fairly new tool by a friend and was interested in checking it out. It's called Microsoft StyleCop and done in the style of FxCop but rather than analyzing assemblies it looks at code for formatting and style rules. The original use...

Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released by Bil Simser

We’ve released version 2.0 of Tree Surgeon . This is the first major release since I took the project over from Mike Roberts. This release adds the following features: 2005 and 2008 support in addition to the original 2003 support Ability to choose the...

Tree Surgeon is Looking for a Logo by Bil Simser

A new release of Tree Surgeon is forthcoming and I’m looking to the community to see if someone with some time and artistic skills on their hands would be interested in putting together a logo to kick things up a notch. Tree Surgeon is a .NET development...

The First Spec You Should Write When Using Castle by Bil Simser

Thought this might be useful. On a new project where you're using the Castle Windsor container for Dependency Injection, this is a handy spec to have: [ TestFixture ] public class When_starting_the_application : Spec { [ Test ] public void verify_Castle_Windsor_mappings_are_correct...

Continuous Integration Feature Matrix by Bil Simser

This is just a post to direct people to the CI Feature Matrix that ThoughtWorks maintains. If you're up in the air about choosing a CI system, then this is the page for you. They maintain an unbiased view (their words, not mine) of all the CI systems...
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