Archive for December, 2007

Gotchas: Visual Studio debugging and stepping through source

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I ran into a problem this morning where Visual Studio 2008 wasn't letting me debug through some source files. These files weren't part of my solution, I was getting them from an external share. I'd checked all the obvious things; enable just my code was disabled and the symbols were ...

The purpose of spiking

Friday, December 21st, 2007

A conversation I happened to overhear yesterday got me thinking about spiking. What are spikes really for? As usual Mary and Tom Poppendieck have something enlightening to say on the matter. "Regular prototype milestones make concurrent product development possible because they provide a focal point around which cross-functional communication ...

Of mice and men

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

So a quick visit to the Microsoft Company Store the other evening to buy something quite dull resulted in me coming home with Gears of War and a Microsoft SideWinder Gaming Mouse. The mouse is working out just fine thanks. Nice and heavy custom weighting and extra buttons that you ...

WCF Security Guidance Package released

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

The WCF Security Guidance Package for Service Factory: Modeling Edition shipped at the end of last week. This allows you to secure WCF services created with the Modeling Edition. The Modeling edition has been just over a month and has already been downloaded over 3500 times. Currently listening to:Audio Bullys ...

Deep clean your build

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I've never been completely happy with the way Visual Studio cleans solutions. If you take a look at how the Clean target is defined in Microsoft.Common.targets you'll see its doing some clever stuff to look at what the last build produced and remove that. My experience is that over time ...