Two minutes into the keynote webcast of Bill Gates at PDC, we get this message:

I am interested in building a custom source control block for CruiseControl.NET but I don’t see a lot of information on their site.   Unless someone has already built one, I would like to create one for VSTS source control.

RSS Popper (Free Outlook plugin for reading RSS Feeds) can now synchronize with Bloglines (also free)

I checked out VistaDB recently after seeing some posts about people that have started looking at it using .NET.

[via Christian Weyer]

Dion Olsthoorn has been kind enough to post his experiences (and code) with trying to get VSTS support Continuous Integration.
This is one of the things I think is really missing from VSTS and it would be very nice if it was integrated into the final release…

If you don’t know what that phrase means, you might not know what Resharper is.  Resharper is a tool by JetBrains that gave you refactoring support in VS.NET 2003.   The phrase “taking a resharper break” comes from the fact that when you go to open a VS.NET solution file (especially one with several projects) it can take several minutes, even on a fast machine with 2 GB of RAM.  I think I was one of only a few people on my previous team that did not uninstall it. Don’t get me wrong, I DO think it is very slow.  But I loved the refactoring tools that it gave me too much to give it up.

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I was a big fan of NewsGator back when it first came out and I could read all my blogs in Outlook and organise them into .PST files and have search applications like X1 or Yahoo Desktop Search (built on X1 engine) could index my pst files and I could find them very easily.  I could also forward a posting by just hitting reply.

[via Sam Gentile]

[From Dmitry Chestnykh’s Blog]

Here are the detailed steps you need to perform to turn on anonymous comments for your blog in Community Server 1.1:
(These may work in CS 1.0, but I have only tried them in 1.1)

[From patterns & practices - Composite UI Application Block Home]

Has anyone have the MetaBlog API working with Community Server 1.1 yet?

Patterns & Practices Community on GotDotNet

I noticed that the GotDotNet workspace for the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) got locked down and put into read-only mode today with this message:

It seems like there would be an easy way to convert from an array of objects of type T to a generic list of type T.  Now maybe I am just missing it completely, but a method like List<T>.AddRange( T[] ) would make sense.

I have been trying out Thunderbird for my mail client and I like it because I can run rules on my IMAP mail accounts very easily.  However, I am upgrading to a new pc and I am trying to figure out how to move my accounts, mail, rules, etc to my new machine.  You can easily import stuff from other email programs but not from Thunderbird.  Ahhrrr!