Yes, it's true. The BBC confirmed yesterday that Billie Piper is to leave Dr Who at the end of a two year run playing assistant Rose Tyler.   The good Doctor just won't be the same without those toothy grins accompanying him.   Sorry, was there...

Kzu has a top tip for the Xml Editor in Visual Studio 2005 . F12 for “Go to definition” works in instance documents and on elements in schema just as if it was C# code. Nice. BTW, this entry my first posted directly from Word 2007 – we’ll see...

Martijn, asks on his delightfully-named Software Chimps site: I wonder therefore why Microsoft has taken the Factory Factory Factory Factory approach in making its own Factory. He notes that we're only building one product and therefore wonders...

Adam Miller has been using our T4 engine and has a question about caching... A caching question: Using the standard templating engine (Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.Engine), is there a way to cache the same template file between generations...

I'm on a short post-ship vacation at the moment so just a quick note. As Stuart announced , we've shipped our next CTP of the DSL Tools with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 June 2006 CTP.   More when I get back to work, but read the info on converting...