Loren Halvorson's Blog

This is the big news today. You can now configure Visual Studio 2008 to step through .NET 3.5 source. Scott Hanselman has the steps to set this up...except for one detail. When installing the QFE (KB944899) patch, you'll need to have your the VS 2008 installation disk you used to install in your DVD drive (or have the ISO mounted). If you don't, the patch just silently rolls back and fails.

This NewsGator press release, dated Jan 9, 2008 announces that NewsGator no longer charges for their client RSS reader products.

Craig Andera reported today that FlexWiki 2.0 has finally been released.  It's been a long time...probably too long...since this wiki engine was updated. In the meantime there have been several other popular .NET wikis that have materialized such as Screwturn. I used FlexWiki extensively for an internal wiki a few years ago, and the one thing I really liked about it was the ability to easily create sub-wikis, FlexWiki calls them "Namespaces", to segment your content. However, the FlexWiki project stagnated with no new releases so we somewhat reluctantly abandoned it. I haven't explored FlexWiki 2.0 much yet to see where the improvements are, but it certainly warrants a look.

When I'm troubleshooting HTTP traffic, I reach for the invaluable Fiddler trace utility. It shows me everything going on over HTTP.

If you are experiencing wrist or forearm pain, everyone will probably automatically assume it's carpal tunnel, but it may be different condition called tenosynovitis which "is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (called the synovium) that surrounds a tendon" (source: wikipedia).

This is great news. Jamie Cansdale has finally released TestDriven.NET 2.0. In my opinion this is still the best way for .NET developers to do unit testing and test driven development.

We've been relatively happy using FlexWiki for a couple of years now on our intranet, but it's luster has been fading a little as I look at other Wiki implementations that have much more visibly active development communities. FlexWiki releases are very infrequent, and there haven't been any new features added in a long time.

I was a little surprised that I couldn't find a NAnt task to do gets and checkins for MS Team Foundation Server. I found a couple places where someone talked about using NAnt's <exec> task to invoke tf.exe directly. And this SourceForge project named VSTSPlugins that promises some type of NAnt integration but hasn't released anything yet. Is there something out there and I'm just missing it? As an interim step before porting all of our builds to MSBuild, I'm interested in just switching our NAnt builds over to use TFS instead of VSS. Has anyone experimented with this?