Earlier this month, the Code Analysis Team talked about which code analysis rules shipped in what version of Visual Studio and FxCop. There is a great spreadsheet that shows all of the rules and in which versions they are available. Here is the list of rules that are... Read more

A while ago, I talked about Microsoft releasing the source code for the .NET Framework in order for you to debug it through Visual Studio 2008. Just a few days ago, it was finally released. Shawn Burke has an excellent and detailed post explaining how to set this... Read more

If you’re wondering what Xobni is, it’s “inbox” spelled backwards. But that’s not all it is. They are a startup company founded in 2006 whose mission is “to take back the email inbox for our users”. Their flagship product is called Xobni Insight and is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook.... Read more

At TechEd Developers Europe, Krzysztof Cwalina presented a talk called “Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries”. If you weren’t able to make the conference or missed his talk, you can download the video recording (in WMV format) or just the slides (in XPS format). The... Read more

Earlier this week, Travis Illig wrote about Why NAnt Is Better Than MSBuild. It seems he is taking the opposite position that I have been lately. He makes some interesting and valid points in this post that I wanted to address. NAnt lets you run tasks before... Read more