Since repaving my computer I haven’t installed an RSS aggregator so I haven’t been reading many blogs. This has been both good and bad. Good because it has allowed me to focus on CAB and bad because I’ve been falling out of touch with my normal sources of information: blogs. So today I went ahead and installed my preferred RSS...

As I’m sure you can imagine, we were given lots of feedback from the June CTP of CAB. One of the things we heard about, both from within MS and from outside folks, was that doing manipulation of private fields or properties was bad and that we shouldn’t support doing dependency injection into privates. Additionally, in .NET the...

As I’m sure you can imagine, we were given lots of feedback from the June CTP of CAB. One of the things we heard about, both from within MS and from outside folks, was that doing manipulation of private fields or properties was bad and that we shouldn’t support doing dependency injection into privates. Additionally, in .NET the...

Darrell Norton blogged about a new book from O’Reilly called Prefactoring. From the Editorial Review on Amazon: More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software design so it's cleaner and more efficient. Known as "refactoring," this process eats up valuable time...

Darrell Norton blogged about a new book from O’Reilly called Prefactoring. From the Editorial Review on Amazon: More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software design so it's cleaner and more efficient. Known as "refactoring," this process eats up valuable time...

Members of the CAB team have started posting about specific things you will want to know if you are migrating your code from the June 30 CAB CTP to the new October 2005 CTP that we released on Friday. Here’s a list of what’s up there so far. I’ll come back and update this page when Brad, Ed or I post any other useful...

I’m sure some of the cool folks over on the MSH team have better ways to do some of these things, but I wanted to share some of the ones I use all the time. Everyone who works on a UNIX system for very long learns how to get the find command to work for them. If you install the Unix Tools package for Win32, you can have find on your...

On Friday we released the October 2005 CTP of the Composite UI Application Block to the GDN Community Site. Go get the bits from the Download Page and let us know what you think. We’ve changed a number of things based on customer feedback from the June drop and we really think it is better. This version is based on .NET 2.0 RC (aka...

On Friday we released the October 2005 CTP of the Composite UI Application Block to the GDN Community Site. Go get the bits from the Download Page and let us know what you think. We’ve changed a number of things based on customer feedback from the June drop and we really think it is better. This version is based on .NET 2.0 RC (aka...

I’ve always both loved and hated repaving my machine. I love doing it a few times a year because it lets me start from scratch. It is like going through your closet or your garage and just throwing everything away. It feels good. It let’s you get back to just those things that you actually need. No extra crap in the way. But,...

I’ve always both loved and hated repaving my machine. I love doing it a few times a year because it lets me start from scratch. It is like going through your closet or your garage and just throwing everything away. It feels good. It let’s you get back to just those things that you actually need. No extra crap in the way. But,...

I was just sent this post by Michael Feathers where he asserts: A test is not a unit test if: It talks to the database It communicates across the network It touches the file system It can't run at the same time as any of your other unit tests You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it. Tests that...

I was just sent this post by Michael Feathers where he asserts: A test is not a unit test if: It talks to the database It communicates across the network It touches the file system It can't run at the same time as any of your other unit tests You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it. Tests that...

If anyone got one of the i-mate phones this morning and doesn't want it, please let me know. I'll buy it from you.

If anyone got one of the i-mate phones this morning and doesn't want it, please let me know. I'll buy it from you.