I just came across this post by Travis Illig, one of the Subtext developers, that brings up an interesting issue with FxCop 1.35. Apparently, FxCop 1.35 uses the Office 2003 spell checker for the spelling rules. If you don’t have Office 2003 (and it must be Office... Read more

I just came across Steve’s blog post about a new Search & Replace plugin for Windows Live Writer written by Waldek Mastykarz. This plugin fills a pretty big gap in WLW and even has support for regular expressions. The code is available on... Read more

The much-talked about MVC Framework that Microsoft is working on was released last week as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. It also has some other pretty cool stuff, including Dynamic Data controls, Ajax history support, ADO.NET Data Services, updated support for Silverlight and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Once... Read more

Last month’s meeting with Cory Foy was excellent. Cory Foy talked about concepts from Michael Feathers’ work on Working Effectively with Legacy Code and I presented a quick introduction and overview to the MVC and MVP patterns. We had about 15 people attending which was down a... Read more

I just realized that my blog has been fairly quiet for the last few weeks. To those who are regular readers, my apologies. Between the holidays and work, I haven’t had much time to give my blog. I plan to spend the rest of the week and the long holiday... Read more