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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Update: If you think I should be shouting 'awesome' and similar words like most of the .NET community members, please take a walk down the path of 'licenses', something you all should be familiar with in every cell in your body, but by the look of all the different posts about this source release I can...

Today I read an interesting post by Arne Vajhøj in the C# newsgroup. He brought up the point that in the Java research license, which was the license the Java sourcecode was released under before it was released under the GPL, a clause was added to prevent that the reader of the code was 'brandmarked...