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• Announcing Microsoft.Blueprints.Contrib on CodePlex

  I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the Read More... Posted 28 February 2009 09:40 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Team System, Tools, Community, CodePlex, Development, Blueprints

• StyleCop for ReSharper is Feature Complete. RC (refresh) Released.

  [Start update 26.02.2009] I've pushed up another release ( 0.0.14301.000 ) that contains fixes for all RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) reported bugs: Fixes: Fixed: reported RC bugs Fixed: add customer repro around inserting documentation (SA1503) Fixed: adding Read More... Posted 18 February 2009 14:34 by howard.vanrooijen | 10 Comments Filed under: Engineering Practices, Tools, Visual Studio, Development, ReSharper, StyleCop

• Implementation Patterns of User-Centered Design, Development and Agile

  Last Friday Malcolm Beaton started a thread on our internal User Experience and Agile Community mailing lists - on how User-Centered Design and Agile can work together and any friction that may occur. Simon Bennett , one of our Agile Coaches , made a Read More... Posted 05 February 2009 22:54 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Musings, Development, UCD

• StyleCop for ReSharper on CodePlex

  Update : StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete . While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# , in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. Read More... Posted 14 September 2008 23:28 by howard.vanrooijen | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Team System, Tools, Community, Visual Studio, CodePlex, Development, ReSharper, Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, StyleCop

• Microsoft Source Analysis for C# + ReSharper = Real-time Source Analysis

  Update : StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete . [UPDATE] See post " StyleCop for ReSharper on CodePlex " for more info. I've worked on a couple of projects for Microsoft UK - one of the many great aspects of those projects was being able to Read More... Posted 29 May 2008 14:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 16 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Tools, Musings, Development, ReSharper, Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

• Continuous Education++

  While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph Read More... Posted 05 March 2008 12:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, .NET, Musings, Books, Development, Continuous Education