Sampy's Blog

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Today I created the test project in Visual Studio Team System that will house the unit tests I'm writing for the Visual Studio publish component in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Publish.dll. With my copy of Working Effectively with Legacy Code in hand, it...

I just installed IE 7 for XP onto my work laptop and fired up Pluck , my RSS reader, half expecting it to crash or break. Thankfully, the only thing busted is launching Pluck from the systray. If you load IE manually, everthing works just fine. Not only...

I've started getting back into blogging more now that work is starting to wind down . You can find it on MSN Spaces here .

I've blogged before about ask mode and tell mode here in DevDiv so I figured I'd give you guys an update as to where we are now. The platform teams (runtime pieces) entered Ask mode this week while the design time teams (most of VS) remained in tell...

I'm watching the new Channel9 video and it's wierd how many similarities that I have with Chris. 1) We both run the same Vista build 2) We both have the same laptop bag. I've been running that build since yesterday and it's pretty sweet. My...

That crazy Scoble! He's interviewing all the people that I want to talk to!

Work is pretty slow going now a days. I'm slogging through a lot of bugs and it's just plain tiring. Oh well, I still have World of Warcraft waiting for me at home :)

I've got 6 fixes sitting on my machine now and I'm going to try and fix 2 or 3 more before I start another checkin this afternoon. I haven't been working too late this week other than a late night on Monday. The team is bringing in dinners this week for...

Sorry I missed you guys yesterday, we had a St. Patty's day party in the afternoon (my usual blog time). I spent most of yesterday and today just fixing away at some bugs. I only have 2 right now that are marked as fixed available (I've got the code but...

I'm going to have to cut out a little early today (early being 5:45) so I'm going to focus on getting my bugs checked in today rather than fixing new ones. In order to get ready for Gauntlet , I first have to get a code review from another dev on my team...

So today, I won't be fixing a lot of bugs but rather, I'll be putting on my QA (Quality Assurance, our testing unit) hat for a while. QA is focused on Beta 2 right now so they're not paying much attention to what's going on in our RTM branch. When dev...

I added a new category for the posts that I started today. If you're interested in following what I've doing during this bug fix push, subscribe to the feed :)

Fixed 3 bugs today, not bad. I spent most of the afternoon banging my head up against a build problem having to do with my Win Forms designer created resx files. If I can't get it going in the next hour or so, I'll probably just work with my team tomorrow...

On the VB team, we don't checkin to our source control system (Source Depot or sd) ourselves like mere mortals, we use the automated checkin system called Gauntlet. Gauntlet runs as an .hta app that collects your unsubmitted changelist, asks for some...

This week VB dev is "going dark" to fix bugs. This means we shut our doors, turn off Outloook, and get some real work done. We've peeled off Beta 2 and are working hard to drive down RTM bugs. By this point in the paragraph, you're probably thinking that...

So I've spent the last few days devoting my spare time to moving the build process for the DLL that I work on (Micrsoft.VisualStudio.Publish.dll) to build with the new MSBuild rather than Build.exe (our current build system). I have to say that I love...

Oops, I meant to metion this when it happened but we entered Ask mode last Monday. We've also forked our code base to a new Beta2 branch that has started producing builds. This means that my branch will soon be available for checkins for RTM which is...

Maybe it's the Object Thinking talking but I always balk when I hear someone talking about taking an agile practice and making it into a "rigorous engineering process." Check out this bit from The Code Project: Unit Test Patterns However, to achieve this...

I just noticed this link in my trackback log for one of my previous post and I'd like to dispel a couple of rumors. On the internet, you need a verified and trusted Authenticode certificate to even prompt the user for permission elevation. That means...

I made mention on Channel9 that I'll have more free time come Monday ( http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=35544#35544 ). This lead some to think that Beta 2 would be done and I could move on to RTM. Ha! I wish. When you get closer and closer...

Shout it from the rooftops! ClickOnce is in Express!! Grab the new October Tech Preview (VB edition http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/ , scroll to the bottom and click the first link under headlines). Of course, considering that we are still...

So we're pushing to get Whidbey out the door so I figured I'd take this chance to let you know what I'm doing to make that happen: Re-vamping the signing property page: Should be a lot more approachable now Completing threat models: I only own one model...

A team mate of mine is new to the blog world and has posted a great piece on the new VS hosting process . Check it out! I actually helped prototype the hosting process when I was an intern 2 years ago. When I wrote it, it was an out of proc COM component...

Good to see that XP SP2 is getting some good advertising .   I have it on all my machines at home (I have since RC1) but not on my sole XP machine at work. I'm a member of our internal control group so I'm one of the few 'softies not running SP2....