I've written before about installing Vista x64 on a Mac Pro and how it's the best Windows machine money can buy. Turns out I wasn't the only one who wanted to beauty, stability, and lack of vendor crapware on my computer as my post is one of the biggest Read More...

With VS 2008 being released on Monday , let the project conversions begin! While I wish we could have had a single project and solution format that would have worked between VS 2005 and VS 2008, at least we can use VS 2008 to target .NET 2.0 only projects. Read More...

As everyone on the planet knows , VS 2008 released to manufacturing and is available to MSDN Subscribers and everyone else . Here's some notes on installing and interesting things I found: If you have VS 2008 RC0 installed, you will need to manually uninstall Read More...

After four or five reports that the SettingsMaster Add-In was failing to create it's toolbar on some systems, I finally gave up and quit relying on what the Visual Studio documentation says about the ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup on OnConnection. On Read More...

Earlier this week, I spent some quality time porting a moderately complicated build over to MSBUILD 3.5, the version that comes with Visual Studio 2008. There are numerous new features in MSBUILD 3.5 that are quite interesting, especially the wonderful Read More...

A big thanks to "Loctus" reporting a bug in PARAFFIN.EXE my WiX TALLOW.EXE replacement tool. I was allowing component and directory names to be created with dashes, which Candle does not like. The code is all fixed. Please keep the bug reports coming Read More...