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Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked
First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:45 PM by willeke | 1 Comments

TFS Sql script - list policy overrides
I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Team Build
I'd just like to say that it's VERY frustrating that the Team Build environment uses a different folder structure than the desktop build environment. Why can't the relative path between the build's .proj file and the solution root stay the same on both... Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:34 PM by willeke | 1 Comments

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TFS installation issues
Slipped my mind, but installing TFS 2005 also requires SharePoint. SharePoint installation sucks. SharePoint trashes out anything .NET-based that's installed on the default web site. Vault is a .NET product installed on the default web site. (hey! Don't Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:30 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Baby Blend Rant
Well not really a rant, more of a lamentation that Blend, like every other [web] designer before it, doesn't really understand the concept of dynamic layout. WPF finally offers a VERY dynamic layout system, but blend, when you move things around still Read More...

Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 9:23 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Is this a good thing?
My understanding of the .NET design philosophy is that if you handle an event with an empty handler, it should behave essentially as if you had not handled the event at all. This may not be the case, but it seems to be in most things... if you handle Read More...

Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 8:38 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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