Most people would have used the const keyword while doing C# development, but I had never heard of the readonly keyword before. Well, this weekend I had a friend point out this keyword and the first usage that came to mind was constructor-based dependency...

When installing the Visual Studio 2005 May Community Technology Preview, there are three key things to remember: (1) Everything from the VS 2005 March CTP must be uninstalled before starting: MSDN, J#, .Net and VS. (2) You cannot install the VS...

I had some initial trouble installing the May Community Technology Preview (CTP), but after reading the instructions (what a novel idea!) I realised that I just needed to remove all the March components: MSDN, J#, framework, and Visual Studio (VS). Keep...

My download of the May CTP is complete. The installation process includes an informative message about VSTS: Welcome to the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2005 DVD This Community Technology Preview includes functionality...

Some people are taking the ObjectSpaces delay a little harder than others. I first met Robert McLaws when he hosted the PDC 2003 Object Relational BoF session. I just read one of his recent posts where he argues that the ObjectSpaces delay is good...

The latest Visual Studio (VS) Community Tech Preview (CTP) is available via MSDN subscriber downloads . The most interesting part for those that are already familiar with the March VS CTP will be inclusion of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). You can...

There are interviews on TheServerSide and a good collection of links on Chris Sells' blog . The unit testing and code coverage tools look fantastic in the videos . The ability to increase the amount of communication through a simple integrated tool...

First we learned that MBF has been delayed till Longhorn (from Tim Brookins ) and now ObjectSpaces is adopting the same schedule . The official announcement is here . I wonder if ObjectSpaces was delayed and that caused the MBF re-schedule, since MBF...

Tim Brookins , an architect on the MBF team, has reported that MBF is no longer in the Whidbey wave and instead will be in the Longhorn wave. This is an exciting area of technology for Microsoft since it touches so many 'hot' areas: Microsoft's business...

Mark Cliggett runs the team at Microsoft that is driving the Developer Division's community efforts for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Yes, they have a whole team dedicated to this. On Friday he posted a retrospective about the recent community...