May 2004 - Posts

Lowering the Barrier to Entry

If you've been wondering how you can afford a copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 for playing with at home, you're request has been granted. Simply watch and review five of the VB at the Movies installments found here and you'll get a certificate for a free Read More...

Get Ready for some Testing Fun

Burton has finally been officially announced. The Visual Studio 2005 Team System is basically everything that VSS wasn't. Integrated Unit Testing Code Coverage Tools Enforced Check-In Policies (e.g. you must pass a unit test before the code can be checked Read More...

Web Services News from TechEd

It has finally happened. After what seems to be 10 years in the making (but what was probably only a year or so), Web Services Enhancements 2.0 has been released. It can be downloaded here . I've been using WSE in a limited role for a while now, mostly Read More...

Objects and Web Services

I've been asked this question enough both on-line and in person that I thought a blog might be a better way to clear up a common misconception. Consider the following situation. Your application has implemented a class as follows: public class Dog { public Read More...

ObjectSharpees at TechEd

I am lucky enough to have two of my ObjectSharp colleagues running two separate Birds of a Feather sessions. Barry Gervin is hosting “Integrating Unit Testing tools and practices into the Software Development LifeCycle” on Sunday at 8:00 pm. Read More...

You Know Blogging Has Arrived When...

A quote from Bill Gates' keynote at the Microsoft-hosted CEO Summit. “Another new phenomenon that connects into this [collaboration] is one that started outside of the business space, more in the corporate or technical enthusiast space, a thing Read More...

A New ObjectSharpee

As of tomorrow, ObjectSharp welcomes another member to our team. For those of you who already know her, the color of this post is a giveaway clue. If you're not familiar with her work , you can read more about it here . Read More...

Talking Without an Audience

I had the unexpected opportunity earlier today to do my first MSDN DevChat webcast . Or a webcast of any kind. One of my colleagues, Dave Lloyd was giving a webcast on the new features in ASP.NET Whidbey. The webcasts originated from the Microsoft Canada Read More...

RSS Feeds and DataSets

So as I write this at 1:10 in the morning, I have just finished beating my head against a fairly hard wall. The task was to load an RSS Feed into a DataSet. Then once in the DataSet, the feed could be bound to a Datagrid, a DataRepeater, etc. The plan Read More...