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TfsProxy on codeplex shutdown

Today I received a message from codeplex telling me that I needed to publish my tfsproxy project on codeplex. I tried doing that but it won’t let me because I didn’t had any source code in the tfs servers. So I decided to let the project get closed on May 1 2009.

For those that are still looking for the code You can find it here on my skydrive folder.

http://cid-81c1c1a3ae5a0b08.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/TfsProxy

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio .Net 2005, Web Services

Visual studio .net 2010 & .net Framework 4.0 CTP

f2b64570-4956-4687-b2d7-58842cabbbe8 Today I found that the first CTP for visual studio .net 2010 and the .net framework 4.0 is available for download. If you want a quick overview of some of the new features go to this website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspx 

If you want to download the CTP you should go to the Microsoft Connect page

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, .net 4.0, Visual Studio .Net 2010

It’s here to stay: Frontpage Server Extensions

Although nobody really uses the program for which this technology was initialy created – Microsoft Frontpage – there are still programs that use the FPSE. Like Visual Studio .Net uses it to publish a website/webservice.

With the new IIS 7.0 most developers will know about the “publish problem” from vs.net to an IIS 7.0 web server, because of the different meta system that come with IIS 7.0 this vs.net feature stopped working “properly”. You could choose for the traditional XCopy and in vs.net 2005 for publishing through FTP. There is also an option to turn on backward IIS 6.0 compatibility in IIS 7.0 for legacy systems.

Now the IIS 7.0 team is releasing the first beta of the FrontPage Server Extensions for IIS7:

Overview

Microsoft and Ready to Run Software have released a beta version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE 2002) for Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.

Features

This version of FPSE 2002 introduces no new functionality, and is essentially the same version that was created for Windows Server 2003 that has been updated to work on Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.

Benefits

FPSE 2002 enables web hosters and developers to author their web content on servers or workstations that are running IIS 7.0 on Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, IIS

How to ignore a blogging career ?

That’s simple buy a house that needs to be finished in the meantime switch jobs and on top of that move out of your current appartement. :-)

I’ve not been writing as much as would like, but I can’t seem to find the time. Lately I’ve been watching more closely to LINQ, Nhibernate, EDM, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio .net Codename ”Orcas”… I know that’s a lot but I can’t keep up and I would like to explore as much as humanly possible under current conditions.

Anyways my findings in short are:

LINQ: nice
NHibernate: same as LINQ = nice + advantage current support .net 2.0 and older versions.
EDM: yeah well… nice as well :-)
Windows Server 2008: mmm still beta, should say enough.
VS.Net Orcas: surprisingly “stable”.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Windows

Okay this is nice, trust me

The thing we’ve all come to love is bugged!

String.IsNullOrEmpty can throw a NullReferenceException at runtime in certain cases. The problem is with the optimizations performed by the the JIT compiler.

Microsoft already fixed this issue in the first beta, so all you early adapters can already enjoy the fixed String.IsNullOrEmpty ;-)

Microsoft’s Feedback
Article demonstrating the issue

Filed under: .net 2.0

BlogEngine.Net Released

Today I saw the notice of the first official release of the freely available blogengine.net. I already installed it once when it was in the alpha/bèta phase. Back then I saw the potentials and definitly the ease of customizing and integrating it. Nowadays when I look at the features list as well as the roadmap for the next versions to come it already looks a lot more advanced. I still have to download the release version to see if they’ve managed to keep the simplicity the project had when I tested it a while ago. I hope they really do, because that will be their stronghold in compairison with other engines. Anyways enough said –>

CHECK IT OUT: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/

Filed under: .net 2.0, Asp.net 2.0, Blog, blogengine.net

FileBrowser Control For Windows Mobile 6.0 Released

I’ve released the source code of the FileBrowser Control. Check the projects section!

Filed under: .net 2.0, .net Compact Framework, Visual Studio .Net 2005

Up to Sequence diagrams

Yesterday I blogged about the autodiagrammer add-in for Reflector to visualize .net assemblies in class diagrams. Today I’ve found a nice ad-in that will generate Sequence Diagrams out of the .net assemblies. If they keep this up we can do what we’ve always wanted to do, program first and analyze later. because these tools will generate everything you need ;-)

More info on this weblog

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0

Visual Studio Orcas Beta available !!!

I saw the notice on Informationweek that Microsoft released a beta of the VS.net Orcas.

Find out more here.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, Asp.net, Asp.net 2.0, Asp.net Ajax, General, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas"

Developer Highway Code

While browsing my saved feeds I found the following free ebook that you can download from msdn. I think I will read this one since we are currently doing something similar.

Developer Highway Code

To build software that meets your security objectives, you must integrate security activities into your software development lifecycle. This handbook captures and summarises the key security engineering activities that should be an integral part of your software development processes.

These security engineering activities have been developed by Microsoft patterns & practices to build on, refine and extend core lifecycle activities with a set of security-specific activities. These include identifying security objectives, applying design guidelines for security, threat modelling, security architecture and design reviews, security code reviews and security deployment reviews.

Filed under: .net, .net 2.0