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  • Enterprise Library 2.0 released for real

    Ok, they finally let the Enterprise Library 2.0 loose in the wild. I have been jonesing for it but I promised myself I wouldn't touch it until it was final. I didn't want to spend time with the beta . I'm trying not to use beta stuff if I can help it. Congrats to the team. Now I can get to work.

  • Overwhelmed

    In my last post I mentioned I was having trouble with the VS 2005 help system. I filed a bug which got me absolutely nowhere. I had to repave my machine. All is well now. I just discovered code snippets and I like them.

  • It's been a long while!

    Yes it has and shame on me. I have had alot of personal things going on, plus a new consulting gig on a massive project with a major sports network. This project is in VB .Net, and while I normally prefer C#, VB ain't too shabby. The switch over wasn't that bad but when I do other work in C# I keep forgetting braces and semi colons.

  • MS is really listening

    I had reported a bug with the VS 2005 Unit Tester aborting tests when MS Anti Spyware is running. I have been getting MSN alerts at various times to keep me posted on the status of the bug. I  just got an email and then an alert on my cell phone telling me that the are working with the spyware team and will have it fixed before the final release.

  • Learning the Team System unit tester

    Ok, so now I dig around the web and find out I can create a test by right clicking on the constructor. Not bad - it created a test project and a class to test the constructor. I just need to set some values. So I set the unit test project as the start project - because I didn't know about the Test Manager yet - and away I go. The test results show that the test was aborted and I see the anti spyware thingy popping up about something tyring to write to a file.