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Microsoft Error Messages
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Apologies to everyone in advance - this just made me laugh.
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"
He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
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Automatically convert VB.NET code to C#
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I've just launched another utility on Developer Fusion - this time, a converter from VB.NET to C#. This is the only VB.NET to C# converter that I'm aware of which is currently online.
The code is very much a work-in-progress. As with the C# to VB.NET converter, the code is based on the great work of the #develop team. I'm currently bug squishing (and these fixes will then be passed on to the #develop team too), so if you find any problems, please do let me know.
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Automatically Convert C# code to VB.NET
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I've just put up the first (of many) planned utilities on Developer Fusion - a conversion tool for automatically translating C# code into its VB.NET equivalent.
http://www.developerfusion.com/utilities/convertcsharptovb.aspx
Feel free to take a look, and let me know if you find any problems. The credit is 99.99% due to the guys behind #develop. I've simply made this tiny bit of their great application available online, plus added the ability to convert "bits" of classes or methods rather than just whole ones.
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Microsoft & the technical community
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A couple of days ago I was invited to a meeting of UK "technical community leaders" at Microsoft's UK headquarters in Reading (to take place in a couple of weeks). Obviously, I'm delighted to be considered a technical community leader....!
Anyway - the main point of the meeting is to discuss "what Microsoft can do to help support you and your community". So, if anyone has any suggestions/comments they'd like thrown around at the meeting, just let me know.
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Windows Installer XML goes live on SourceForge
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Microsoft has released the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge earlier today under the IBM Common Public License as part of the Shared Source Initiative. This is the first SSI to go "public" on Source Forge rather than a Microsoft site, and the first to use an externally created “Open Source” license.
There's a discussion on SlashDot (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/05/135241.shtml) as to whether "this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement"