Matthew ".NET 247" Reynolds

After running a post looking for contract and permanent developers in the UK, Damian blogged about his experiences with recruitment consultants and I’ve become so incensed that I feel the need to rant, hence this post.

A number of my clients dotted around the UK are looking for contract and permanent developers.

Mattias Sjögren writes on .NET 247 how you can hack the VS .NET debugger to show more useful information about an object in the Watch window.  I must admit, it bugs the life out of me that some objects give you a decent bit of info, whereas others just tell you what they are.

There's an intriguing post on .NET 247 saying that the “ms” in “mscorlib” doesn't stand for Microsoft anymore:

I haven't tried this yet, but apparently you can get the debug symbols for the Framework that all you to step into calls in the BCL.  At present, I tend to use Reflector to decompile the types and step through it in my mind, but this sounds cool if it does work.

Old news for some, but Harry Peirson has a cool tool for switching between source control providers with VS .NET.  (e.g. SourceGear, VSS and GDN).

Something I do regularly is add new folders and classes to VS .NET projects.  Up until about two minutes ago, I'd done this manually, via the mouse.

From Neowin: