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

I have been working and talking a lot about MSBuild over the last few months. As part of that work, I have implemented several custom tasks for MSBuild. Most of those tasks were ones that I had written as part of an NAnt based build system while others were part... Read more

I’ve been seeing several people blogging about the free Microsoft Press E-Book offer. All you need to do is register and you get access to 3 e-books from Microsoft Press that you can download in PDF format. If you pay close attention to the details... Read more