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From an altnet list discussion about Team Build (part of TFS):  
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:35 PM, David Kean wrote:  
Team Build is more than just MSBuild, it includes build management (retention, CI, drop management, etc). The next version will be even more powerful and based on Windows Workflow.  
 

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Ayende [...]

Enterprise plaforms - teaching new dogs old tricks

Oren is talking about building a substrate for an enterprise platform. This has been something I’ve wanted to do since I first got my hands on c# and the rest of the .net framework in 2001. I’ve never done it because it always seemed that a one size fits all solution would be unworkable.
At the [...]

String Manipulation DSL’s

Mats comments on my previous post:
“But I guess what I’m saying is that the code for inserting that string using just strings may look even worse when you come back to look at it a week later…”
If your thinking that I’m talking about code like:
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(”xxx - yyy [somevar] zzz”);
Response.Write(sb.ToString().Replace(”[somevar]“,”somevalue”));
Then I’d agree. [...]

Server.Transfer does not run ASP.NET pipeline

Things I’ve learnt today: One.
What I’ve learnt: If you use the convenient (if old school) Server.Transfer method to render a different page to a client then you need to be aware that ASP.NET pipeline events1 will not run. You know - BeginRequest, AuthenticateRequest - unimportant things like that.
Basically - nothing that happens in Global.asax, [...]

You know you’re having a bad day when…

You walk into the office and get told that you need to drop everything you were going to be working on because there’s a recurring problem on the production servers. For the last few days we’ve been experiencing a 100% CPU utilization on the w3wp.exe (the asp.net worker) process. Killing it off will fix the [...]

WPF Dependency Properties as Acquisition

I read a sample chapter from Adam Nathan’s WPF book - Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed - a few weeks ago. (This book has been getting some mad props from around the net recently).
The chapter covers the new concepts in WPF which is super because if you can understand the important ideas (what Ayende calls the [...]