Visual Studio Team Edition rules!!!

I've been working for some time with Team System, but whenever I enabled Code Coverage and Code Analysis over old projects, I always ended up disabling these, as too much noise appeared.

Now that I'm starting a new project with new methodologies, enabling these make all the sense. I'm specially impressed on how disciplinary Code Analysis can be for me!

By the way, I'm an old time NUnit user that just got converted into Visual Studio Unit Testing. The one I cannot loose for now is good old log4net. But the day will come, sooner or latter...

Visual Studio on Windows Vista

The release of the Windows Vista operating system represents a significant opportunity for developers to build the next generation of applications that deliver compelling user experiences. We want to help you take advantage of this opportunity and assist you in developing and delivering Windows Vista based software faster, more cost effectively, and with greater impact than ever before.

During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. We’re also testing to ensure that your .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 applications will work on Windows Vista so that your existing applications will continue to run as expected.

While we have made tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backwards compatibility, some of the system enhancements, such as User Access Control, changes to the networking stack, and the new graphics model, make Windows Vista behave differently from previous versions of Windows.

The changes will impact Visual Studio and thus we're unable to support Visual Studio .NET 2002 or Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows Vista.

However, your existing .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 based applications will continue to work on Windows Vista, and will be able to take advantage of many of the new features available to Windows Vista applications.

For more information about the impact of Windows Vista on Visual Studio please check:

• Visual Studio on Windows Vista FAQ
• Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Issue List - Running with normal user permissions
• Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Issue List - Running with elevated administrator permissions

.Net Framework 3.0 Guide

Don't know where to start? Just start here!

NetFXGuide is a community website about the revolutionary world of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX).

NetFXGuide is the new name for WinFXGuide, a website created in May 2006 by two experienced technical architects, Francesco Lomonaco and Stuart Snaddon. They both have contributed to the amazing growth of IPT Ltd, the UK's leading online marketing group.

Posting from Windows Live Writer

I'm posting from Windows Live Writer. The experience is really awesome - very rich from the user interface perspective.

Will my errors in English finally stop?

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REF: Prescription for an I.T. Disaster?

Oops, here's a project manager in trouble...

In 2002, the English government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion, and two Members of Parliament say the project is "sleepwalking toward disaster."

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The difficulty was that the programmers, systems developers and architects involved didn't comprehend some of the terminology used by the British health system a

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nd, more important, how the system actually operated, the CfH conceded. The solution: In August 2005, the CfH announced it was looking for at least 100 clinicians to spend several weeks in India and Seattle working hand-in-hand with developers to anglicize the new software and "make sure their product is fit for purpose."

REF: C# pulling ahead of Java (and VB)

At last week's Tech-Ed conference in Barcelona, C#'s lead architect Anders Hejlsberg drew large audiences for his sessions on the future of the language. Read all about it here.

C# has come a long way since it emerged from Microsoft's mythical "Project Cool" back in 2000. It is the primary language of Microsoft .NET, and has pulled ahead of Visual Basic among professional Windows programmers.

Web Development Helper

Web Development Helper is an Internet Explorer plugin that provides a set of useful tools to both Ajax/JavaScript developers as well as ASP.NET page and control developers.

Web Development Helper is an Internet Explorer plugin that provides a set of useful tools to both Ajax/JavaScript developers as well as ASP.NET page and control developers. For client-side script-based development, Web Development Helper provides HTTP tracing capabilities, as well as much improved script diagnostics, and tracing facilities, as well as an immediate window. For ASP.NET developers, when developing against your site on your local development machine, this tool provides the ability to view ViewState, ASP.NET trace messages, contents of your cache etc.

The following is a list of features offered by the tool: A warning when either debug or trace have been turned on. Ability to hide trace information from the page, and view it in a separate dialog, so it does not get in the way of your page's layout. Ability to view the page's view state (in various forms: raw, parsed, and decoded) to help you optimize your state management logic. Ability to view items stored in cache, and remove them for testing purposes. Ability to shutdown the application (unloading the associated appdomain), in order to test starting it from a clean state. Ability to log all HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic between the browser and your server, and view request and response details, including those performed via XMLHttpRequest. Ability to view the live HTML DOM using a DOM Inspector that allows viewing all elements, selected elements, or elements matching ID or CSS class. For each element, you can see the markup, attributes, and style attributes. Ability to view rich error information for script errors (full call stack, script URL and line number), as well as a script immediate window to execute some script against the current document.

And the Iron Architect winner is...

João Martins (Jota) won the TechEd Iron Architect hosted at TechEd Developers.

The solution Jota presented was based on interest tagging taken from sessions previously attended, thus creating a tag cloud capable of representing interest correlation between attendees. Congratulations for this awesome design!

So, if the next TechEd is under heavy rain, don't forget who's responsible for the cloudy days :)

Vista has just been RTMed!

Finally, it's here. Read all about it. Here's what we really want to know:

That being said, Windows Vista’s journey is not yet done. PC makers, device manufacturers and software developers can finalize work on their products and applications to ensure great customer experiences when Windows Vista becomes available -- to our volume license customers this month and consumers on January 30, 2007.

TechEd2006 Day 1 - Keynote

Day1 from TechEd 2006 is done.

I'm afraid I haven't seen much new stuff to tell you about, but day 1 is kind of an introduction.

My first session for today was:

KEY01: Windows Vista, the 2007 System and AJAX

The presentation was a normal marketing one. It would pass unnoticed except for the appearance of a 10 year old Microsoft certified girl from India showing a calculator she designed in C#. For most respect that I hold for that girl, I think it was somewhat paternalist and unnecessary.

A note for Hejlsberg presentation on Linq, a very efective one - man, the guy wrote a lot of coding without intellisense, and it mostly run with no errors! Eh, eh, eh, great!

New goodies

.NET Framework 3 is out! Finally my development systems will get stable, and will be easier to install CTPs on the same system.

Office 2007 is now in RTM. Hopefully Sharepoint 2007 will be out soon.

TxF, TxR and KTM : ACID File System

TxF is a Vista technology that allows you to manipulate files and the registry in a transacted way, in concert with other transactional operations on the system or the network. It stands for Transactional NTFS. TxR is the registry counterpart. Both of them are managed by KTM (Kernel Transaction Manager).

It was about time! By the way, hope nobody has forgotten to include WebDAV in the deal.

Read more about it here.