eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley

Here comes the obligatory 100th post -- 'This is #100! Its been a long journey to get to this point.'

The Central IL Dot Net User Group will be meeting this Wednesday, April 7th at the Microsoft Office in Bloomington, Illinois.  We will be hosting Nick Lews, a .NET Developer Evangelist with Microsoft's National Architecture Team in Chicago.  He will be discussing Web Application Security and the Microsoft Reference Application (WebHack).

One of my goals this year, is to earn my MCSD for .NET, however training in the Central IL area is very spotty, and damn near impossible to get.  I recently signed up for 2710: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures through Levi, Ray, & Shoup (LRS), and I was just informed today that my class had been cancelled due to the lack of interest.  What am I? Am I not interested?

My team at work is starting to look into using the Extreme Programming (XP) model, and as such I've started to do some reading up on it...and determined that its driven highly on TDD. This is something, unfortunately, I've had no experience with.  So - I downloaded NUnit and started working with it, and (like always) I was trying to find the most streamlined way of running my tests.

Through my normal routine of reading/responding to Microsoft newsgroups, a question came up about "100% Managed Code" phrases that companies use.  Specifically, the user was asking about a PDF component advertising it as such, and was just wondering if it was possible that they were using the Adobe APIs still.  Well, my response basically stated that since they're advertising it as "100% Managed Code", that it probably doesn't use Interop, and has built on the described api.

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Well, I'm sitting here, struggling...struggling to find out how to get the active build configuration from a visual studio project file.  I've been studying the XML file, and there is absolutely no where that denotes what the active build config is.  I've also looked in the project.user file as well as the solution file, still...no luck. Would anyone like to share how you determine the active build configuration?

In response to Adam Kinney's post on Ego-Building Google Searches: