Mike Diehl's WebLog

Phil just posted a couple of MSBuild tasks that he uses to synchronize the schema and data of two databases, using the API's for RedGate's SqlCompare (for schema) and SqlDataCompare (for data).

ScottGu posted an article showing how to add authorization rules to business and data layers.

Hernan de Lahitte writes about the FxCop rules included in the WebService Factory that analyze the security of WCF code and configuration files.

Steve posted about a problem with updating a UI control from a non-UI thread. In his case, the exception that was produced wasn't clear as to what was causing the problem. On the mobile device the exception that was generated was:

The Patterns and Practices group at MSDN have released their initial plans for Enterprise Library v3.

Look at this lineup of sessions at the Patterns and Practices Summit in Redmon Oct 9-12.... 

Bill Simser in Calgary is using Team System with a Scrum template, and he mentioned hearing Joel's recently recorded Dot Net Rocks episode (which I've downloaded but haven't listened to - knowing Joel it will be clever and entertaining and inspiring all at once. Lucky me I get to hear Joel almost every day....)

Ralf had another good idea