After running Vista x64 on another machine for a few days; installing various pieces of critical software and seeing that everything seemed to be working smoothly... I've made the full leap on my main desktop machine (the one that now has 4GB of memory). Some interesting "facts":Windows Experience Index reports my processor running ...

I need to run it through it's paces, but I now have a VS2005 macro that will, whenever I successfully build a release mode project, package the project folder into a zip file named [ProjectName]_src_v[OutputAssemblyFileVersion].zip.  And it doesn't require anything additional to be installed on the machine.  And it's not ...

You know, I'm all for making some things available for free; but at the same time want to protect my “property” as much as possible.  With great tools such as Reflector being available; you really need to consider using obfuscation to at least make it a little more difficult to reverse engineer your code.  In addition, ...

When: December 13th, 2005 Come to the event for you chance to win a free copy of DVDs containing both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005!  There are *FIVE* of these to be given away, so you chance is pretty good... Who's presenting?  Good question... the answer is that Stephen Swienton (President FWDNUG and ASP.NET MVP) and Cory ...

If you haven't heard the news, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (meaning Microsoft Visual Basic 2005) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has been officially released to manufacturing... which mean... If you are an MSDN Universal (or rather were... and now a Visual Studio 2005 of some edition plus MSDN Premium) subscriber, you can download it today!  ...

Well, the MVP Summit calmed down at about 3:30pm today and, although I'm extremely tired, I have to say my Microsoft batteries are recharged.  But... I'm really hoping that Microsoft will work harder to improve the documentation for Visual Studio.  Obviously the product is very close to being released, so I don't expect it to improve ...

Yes, you read that correctly!  VB 2005 will have full support for refactoring in the form of a community edition of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005.  Refactoring tools include: Rename (Native to VB 2005, not a part of Refactor!.) Reorder Parameters Extract Method Extract Property Create Overload Surrounds With ...

A few people have already mentioned .NET 1.1 SP1 (in addition to .NET 1.0 SP3) being available as of 8/30/2004... but since I've been a little busy, I didn't notice the availability until I updated all of my systems last week.  A couple of people of mentioned that SP1 has affected their ASP.NET applications while others have mentioned ...

One of my fellow coders from days of yesteryear has released a new version of his excellent product, CodeSmith.  It now includes an IDE (if you get the professional release).  If you haven't checked out CodeSmith, nows the time to do so.  (If you have looked at it in the past and didn't like it for some reason, time to look again!)  Seriously, if ...

Brad Abrams points out an interesting list of various namespace methods that are being rendered obsolete.  In addition to the list of methods, he includes some notes about each item and their possible replacements.  Here's what he has to say: We are working on an official list and we will ship it with Beta1 of Whidbey… but until then I have ...