Ever heard the term 'Alternative rock' ? It's a term for rock music which isn't mainstream. Or something. Anyway, read the wikipedia page for the fine print . I'm a metal fan (despite the pile of trance house music I've created in a dark past ) and once in a while I listen to alternative rock to ease...

Dan Fernandez responded to my recent blogpost with a follow-up on the Jamie vs. Microsoft soap. He used an analogy to try to make his point: To paraphrase an analogy from that post, this would be comparable to a 3rd party company working around the technical limitations in the LLBGEN demo to unlock features...

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...

First, read the announcement here . Had that deja-vu yet? Me too . But let's not get into that right now, because I do think the Entity Framework situation is different from the WinFS/ObjectSpaces situation. So what's going on here? The following is my speculation why they've cut it from .NET 3.5/Orcas...

I was unhappily surprised this morning when I compiled a new build of an assembly and changed the assembly file version attribute from 2.0.0.061005 to 2.0.0.070105: I got this wicked warning from the C# compiler: warning CS1607: Assembly generation -- The version '2.0.0.070105' specified for the 'file...

Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss , our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses LLBLGen Pro v2.0 power for 100% of the data-access functionality. HnD is...

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 !...

Back in november 2005 , I reported an issue to Microsoft (and I'm definitely sure I wasn't the only one), which was about slow response from the C# editor when you were editing large files: the cursor/editor couldn't keep up with the typing. Like you were back in the '80-ies on a slow box. Type some...

According to Soma Somasegar's last post , the following is/isn't supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft's OS which has to replace Windows XP: Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE . Supported. Visual Studio.NET 2002 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2003 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2005 . Supported with...

My best friend Jeroen van den Bos has just posted a great article about why Visual Studio should be part of Windows . Jeroen and I share a long history together and as we're both ex- demosceners , I fully understand his reasoning and I wholeheartly agree with his point: make Visual Studio.NET Express...