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...

It was formally announced by Microsoft today that Visual Studio 2008 will be released at the end of this month. The only thing I'm going to say at this point is that it seems WAY too soon to me. I'll make blog posts after the release and we'll see if my gut feeling was right or wrong (and I have absolutely...