Releases are just coming fast and furious today. TestDriven.NET 1.0 launches! Run your unit tests (whether they be written in NUnit, MbUnit, csUnit, or Team System) directly from within Visual Studio. Well worth the download.
Browsing Posts published in November, 2004
Congrats to Eric Sink and SourceGear on getting Vault 3.0 and Dragnet 1.0 released.
From John Montgomery (via Chris Sells), we finally have some recommendations from Redmond on which UI technology we should use going into the future. The basic message – use common sense. Use WinForms now while Avalon is in development. Consider Avalon for appropriate scenarios when it debuts. Use Avalon (and re-use previously developed WinForms controls via interop) […]
The GMail Notifier from Google is a must-have utility for GMail users. It runs as a tray icon and has some great features, including: toasts when new mail arrives double-click tray icon to launch GMail optionally allow GMail to intercept mailto: links in web pages
It’s patch-time again and this one’s not from Microsoft! (Let’s face it – poor security is an industry-wide problem.) Anyway, this one is brought to you by Sun Microsystems… A vulnerability has been discovered in the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) where applets can break out of the sandbox. This vulnerability applies to all OSs where […]
A few days ago I presented a talk to my company, Quadrus Development Inc., entitled Tools of the Trade: Must-Have .NET Utilities. I covered off the major tools that should be in any .NET developer’s toolbox. These include the usual suspects, many of which I noted here, as well as a few fun ones like devMetrics […]
Scott Hanselman has done it again. Scott’s List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns is a list of great tools, mostly free, that integrate directly with Visual Studio .NET. Some are really useful (most of the list), some are fun (devMetrics), and some are just plain diabolical (devMetrics). Have you checked your cyclomatic complexity today?
You’ve downloaded the latest, coolest utility (for example, ZoneStripper) 🙂 with source code. The source code is sitting on your local hard drive yet when you launch the solution in Visual Studio .NET 2003, you receive the warning: The project location is not fully trusted by the .NET runtime. This is usually because it is […]
It’s official. CruiseControl.NET 0.7 has been released. Check it out! Congrats and thank you to the team on finalizing the release candidate.
Here’s a cool little validation control (PasswordEntropyValidator), compliments of Dominick Baier, to ensure that users of your ASP.NET sites use strong passwords.
