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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and things I wish were more intuitive

I've started using Windows Workflow Foundation, and so far ran into a few things that aren't incredibly obvious. Microsoft did a good job of providing a ton of samples, which is handy because you need them to get anywhere with WF. The docs are thin, so...
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Migrating from VS 2005 to VS 2008

I recently helped migrate a ton of code from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008, and .NET 2.0 to 3.5. Most of it went very smoothly; it touches every .sln, .csproj, and .Designer.cs file, and puts a bunch of junk in Web.Configs, but rarely encountered errors...

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 released, with Go Live

It's official! In one of the first of a few dozen posts you'll read about it, Scott Guthrie announces Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 have been released .
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Microsoft Sandcastle

In working with my company's offshore developers, I was tasked with providing them documentation on a set of class libraries we use in our applications. In the .NET 1.0/1.1 time frame, we used NDoc , which, sadly, passed away last year , to turn the XML...

ASPInsiders Summit 2006 - C# 3.0 and LINQ

C# 3.0 (not to be confused with the confusingly-named .NET Framework 3.0 , which includes C# 2.0, not C# 3.0) was the most exciting thing discussed at the ASPInsiders Summit. When I first learned a bit about LINQ at the 2005 summit, I didn't really...
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Windows service setup projects - Unable to build custom action error

I ran into another under-documented snag upgrading my solution to Visual Studio 2005. It has a Windows service used for behind-the-scenes maintenance sorts of tasks that run on a regular basis, and a corresponding setup project. Now, it's also got...
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