I decided I'd give the SP1 install a shot Friday night, before leaving for Christmas activities. Boy was that a waste of time. First try, there wasn't enough space on the drive, which happens to be a Parallels virtual drive on my Mac. So I fattened it up with about five gigs to spare, and no...

I decided I'd give the SP1 install a shot Friday night, before leaving for Christmas activities. Boy was that a waste of time. First try, there wasn't enough space on the drive, which happens to be a Parallels virtual drive on my Mac. So I fattened it up with about five gigs to spare, and no...

There are a few things I need to get off my chest. When I started working on TestDriven.Net I was a hobbyist .NET developer. My day job was as a Java consultant. TestDriven.Net was something I did for fun between consultancy gigs. Working on open source projects can be a great way to learn a new technology...

Today Microsoft kindly extended my deadline by 24 hours so that I could further consult my lawyers. So far they have done a very good job of keeping the pressure on. This isn't simply a case of knocking out a quick email Pirate Bay style ! Before I released support for Visual Studio Express , I made...

Jamie A comments to an article on Channel Register : Here's a slightly less technical way of looking at the issue: Microsoft essentially have 2 editions of a program. The first edition speaks English (User Interface) to the user, but in behind can speak French (COM) to other components. The second edition...

I vote for it and you? Mitch Denny proposes a very cool idea for popping up in-place GUI when you need to edit a formatted string or other parameter in source code . He has posted his idea up on the Ladybug site ; I’ve voted for it, and you should too! [ Via: Bruce Williams, Microsoft C# Compiler...

I have read a lot of blogging posts and some MSDN articles about Visual Studio 2005, but have not found a comparison chart anywhere. What I and problably many out there wanted is a chart like the one below. Visual Studio 2005 Edition Features Academic Express Professional Enterprise Developer Enterprise...

I must give some of the Express Editions a try. Let's start downloading right now... [Via Christa Carpentiere ] [Via Duncan Mackenzie ] [Via Benjamin Mitchell ] [Via Tim Sneath ] [Via Bill McCarthy ] [Via Robert Scoble ] [Via Chris Sells ] [Via Kent Sharkey ] [Via Kent Sharkey ] [Via Dan Fernandez...

I intend to use this post to maintain a listing of Whidbey bloggers. If you believe that you are blogging useful Whidbey content give me a ping and I'll add you to the list: Blogroll: Fredrik Normén's Blog - NSQUARED2 ( specifically ASP.NET ) Wally McClure ( specifically ADO.NET ) [Via...

Not sure why this hasn’t been covered yet on the blogosphere, but yesterday at Microsoft 2008 Launch Event, Tom Brokaw gave a ~15 minute monologue about technology to introduce Steve Ballmer , the plight of our planet, and how technology (and those who deploy it) should be used for the greater good....