A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the community to get the award, and also apparently...

After nagging about it for a long time, it seems Microsoft finally understood that getting a hotfix for VS.NET 2005 was too cumbersome for a lot of people (outside the US, calling PSS isn't a picknick). So they decided to start a pilot program to see if downloadable hotfixes will make a difference !...

A couple of people ( Ayende Rahien , Jeremy Miller and David Hayden ) started to wonder why Open Source Software (OSS) isn't that big in Microsoft/.NET land, why the 'big' open source projects in Microsoft/.NET land aren't really big compared to commercial competitors or are dying away without large...

First of all: Happy New Year! Sahil Malik tagged me so here are the 5 useless, braincell destroying trivia about me you probably didn't nor wanted to know! My first program was a solver for a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0 on an MSX in MSX basic . That's right, my first program was completely useless and written...

Disclaimer: I'm offered a free license for NDepend 2.0 Ok, first sorry for the disclaimer, but I think it's best to have fully clarification and transparency towards my readers so they can determine by themselves if what they read is OK, and from now on I'll put such a disclaimer in a post if I feel...

I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title explains it all. Today I got a reply (whoa, after...

Disclaimer: I'm offered a free license for NDepend 2.0 Ok, first sorry for the disclaimer, but I think it's best to have fully clarification and transparency towards my readers so they can determine by themselves if what they read is OK, and from now on I'll put such a disclaimer in a post if I feel...

First of all: Happy New Year! Sahil Malik tagged me so here are the 5 useless, braincell destroying trivia about me you probably didn't nor wanted to know! My first program was a solver for a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0 on an MSX in MSX basic . That's right, my first program was completely useless and written...

Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis ) Update: Scott Guthrie writes that you should uninstall the Web Application Project add-in first if you have that one installed, as the SP1 installer chokes on that. At the moment, the SP1 installer is already busy for more than...

A couple of people ( Ayende Rahien , Jeremy Miller and David Hayden ) started to wonder why Open Source Software (OSS) isn't that big in Microsoft/.NET land, why the 'big' open source projects in Microsoft/.NET land aren't really big compared to commercial competitors or are dying away without large...