Click Once Deployment
This is a very interesting session. The different ways to release the app into the wild and the fact that the application, when installed locally, allows for a version rollback on uninstall are very
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Sustainability and Inverson of Control #2
Finally after 1 1/2 days I finally attended a dud. There’s no question in my mind that Scott Bellware is a smart cookie, but this was a pretty bad session. First I’ll qualify my situation by saying
Clarification on the VSTS checkin/out process
I spoke with Barry Gervin after the presentation to clarify the concerns that I had during the session this morning. When you are working in any environment and you are starting a new work (coding) ta
Lunch Time at DevTeach 2006
It’s darn near lunch time and there’s this dude running around with a quesadilla screaming something about Mexico. I’m starting to wonder if the guy is all there or not. Seems other people have seen
Advanced Version Control with Team Systems
One of the interesting concepts that came up in this talk was the idea that VSTS has you working off of a known working version of the source code. I see a problem with this. Working off a known wor
Extending Visual Studio 2005
To ensure your code has all the XML comments in it go to the project, right click and select Properties. On the Build tab and check the XML documentation file item. This will verify that the signatu
Simplifying Code Generation in a Generic World
Microsoft has released a code generator called Domain Specific Languages. Domain in this case is relating to the IT domain (i.e. forms over data or web app) not business domain. Five principles of co
What constitutes community?
Since I’ve been here in Montreal I’ve had the opportunity to interact with the leaders of the other User Groups in Canada. Without exception they are saying that my description of the Edmonton .NET U
Montreal by night
I was out with the Canada Clan tonight (D’Arcy from Winnipeg, Jennifer from Saskatoon, Nolan from Victoria, Rob from Toronto, Chris from East of Toronto, and Jason from Fredrickton). Things didn’t ge
Defining and Enforcing Good Code
This is one of my babies and I’m really stoked to hear this presentation by Kathleen Dollard. Even better, this is going to be a show on FxCop, something that I’ve always wanted to use, but have neve