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To EIF or not to EIF...that is the question
When Microsoft released Enterprise Instrumentation Framework last year I investigated it to replace the Paul Bunyan logger we are currently using under our ASP.NET application. I liked EIF a lot, but we weren't able to incorporate it at the time for a variety of reasons. One of them was lack of a decent viewing tool. There is a simple little "Trace Viewer" sample app that comes with EIF, but when you hold it up against the Paul Bunyan Message Viewer that our operations people use today, it's just a toy. The Paul Bunyan viewer is able to view messages across many machines, with very powerful filtering (although the filtering interface is horrible, I've watched as people familiar with it make it work).
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Is anyone using AzMan?
We are in the process of developing a common role based authorization layer for several of our applications and stumbled across the Microsoft's Authorization Manager. I had originally passed over it because I thought it was tied to Windows Server 2003, but it turns out that it runs on Windows 2000 which we are using in production, and Windows XP which developers use. On XP, just install the Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack and you'll get it.
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Warning: Continuous Integration builds are addicting
We finally have a first cut at continuous integration builds going for a large ASP.NET application. We are using CruiseControl.NET and NAnt with great success. I wanted to comment on an unexpected psychological effect I experienced. Continuous integration builds are addicting. OK, I'm not even currently on the development team for this project, just helping them out with their builds, but I still feel the need to check the status of the builds throughout the day. I feel stressed when the build is broken, and relaxed when it is fixed.