My good friend Andrew Stopford has taken the lead in moving MbUnit (a great tool he asked me to try for the longest time, and when I did, I loved it!) to OSS again. MbUnit was created by Jonathan de Halleux (Peli), who has since gone to Microsoft. It was briefly moved under TestDriven.NET (headed by Jamie Cansdale) after Peli didn't have...

This is for those local to my area (Boston and surrounding) that look for updates on this group: Our very successful Boston Code Brew is meeting tomorrow night, April 20, 2005, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at The Asgard in Cambridge, MA. We have a private meeting room set up for us along with access to a full screen to hook up laptops, etc.. After...

I really enjoyed my talk at the Vermont .NET User Group on Monday night. There were lots of questions, and everyone seemed to very interested in the techniques. I turned the talk into a more interactive session as opposed to a "conference session" because I wanted to give everyone an opportunity to get questions answered. Of course, I...

I will be speaking at the Vermont .NET Users Group in Burlington, Vermont on Monday, April 11. My topic will be Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, and NUnit. I am really looking forward to again seeing Julie Lerman (who does a fantastic job of leading the group), Dave Burke, and meeting Roman Rehak (Roman has graciously...

After mentioning a "least privileged user" problem with Tree Surgeon a couple of days ago, Mike Roberts very kindly fixed the main problem of where to save the development tree. You can find the updated version here. Thanks, Mike! I will look at the problem of associating the program with multiple users this weekend and may submit a fix --...

Aaron showed me this new tool last night called Tree Surgeon written by Mike Roberts, and like he said, I nearly fell out of my chair! It looks fantastic! It is an open source product that creates a .NET Development Tree similar to what I have pointed to before on Mike's blog. I really like the NUnit and NAnt folders that are...

To follow up from yesterday, I tried installing Windows Server 2003 SP1 on a couple more of my servers, including the host server for my virtual servers. I was able to get in through Remote Desktop afterward. I think (hope) yesterday's experience was just a fluke. What is confusing is when you check what ports are allowed and not allowed, I...

I got my Avalon and Indigo CTPs installed without any problems as I already went through the pains of setting everything up last weekend for Code Camp III. I have been reading through the docs (all live) and sample information, but this is definitely going to be weekend playtime for me (not quite up to the level of Clemens, but fun...

As Brad Abrams mentions: I am super excited about the first CTP of Avalon and Indigo that work nicely together.. And check that out – we beat the March 38th date rudder promised at VSLive!   Do we get a bonus for that ;-)   This bits work on top of the latest VS 2005 CTP and include some nice project system support in the...

As I mentioned in my last post, I had a lot of fun speaking at Code Camp III: The Madness. The conference began with a blizzard making it difficult to drive in (as my friend Dave Burke experienced). With the bad weather, there were still 300+ people in attendance! I spent most of last week trying to get the February CTP 3 bits...

Last night ended a series of talks I gave last week in a couple of locations. Last Wednesday, I enjoyed speaking to the Connecticut Access User Group on Security, and I had a great time this weekend delivering four talks at Code Camp III on Security and SQL Server 2005 topics. I was going to speak at the Rhode Island .NET Users Group on...

As several of my friends know, I have started a new .NET project through my company. As I do this, I have been going afresh through my own mental list of things I should have in place to make sure this is a success -- source control, automated build, unit tests, bug tracking, etc. One list that is very good to make sure you are hitting the most...

Sam Gentile posted a great review of this new book: Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime by Steven Pratschner. As I was reading his post, I realized I had seen this book before! When I was preparing for WinDev on my CLR Hosting talk, I got information from Chris Brumme and others that a book on CLR...

I was at the Sys-Con Web Services Edge East 2005 in Boston for a couple of days this week. I had some work to finish for a couple of my clients, so I couldn't attend the entire conference, but what I saw was great. Some of my favorite parts were watching Michael Stiefel's talk on SOA and WSE2 and one of my heros from my transaction...

Last year, I answered some questions for a Microsoft Research project about running as non-administrator and the obstacles I have found in using various Windows applications. Susan Bradley is pointing to the final paper of this research project entitled "A Black-Box Tracing Technique to Identify Causes of Least-Privilege...