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• ReSharper 4.0 from JetBrains is released

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved The JetBrains team have been working hard at getting functionality and bug fixes into version 4.0 of ReSharper. I'm very excited to see that it's finally reached RTM status and now fully supports Read More... Posted 09 June 2008 23:17 by john.rayner | 0 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Engineering practices, Visual Studio, C#, .Net

• Design-time perf improvements in Visual Studio 2008

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved Some metrics that we captured on my project: (I think the numbers speak for themselves) Operation VS 2005 VS 2008 % Improvement Start the IDE 00:30 00:09 70% Load solution 03:45 00:45 80% Get Read More... Posted 28 January 2008 16:00 by john.rayner | 12 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Engineering practices, Visual Studio

• WPF/E: Running side-by-side with WPF Designer (a.k.a "Cider")

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved There are two main ways to develop WPF/E within Visual Studio 2005 - one is to edit the XAML in the XML Editor, and the other is to use Cider, the XAML WPF designer . There are pros and cons Read More... Posted 08 December 2006 14:00 by john.rayner | 6 Comments Filed under: Development practices, WPFE, WPF/E, Silverlight

• A Windows Service to accept messages via a web service and send them over MSN Messenger

  Here I present a Windows Service which signs in to an MSN Messenger account at startup and exposes some web services in order to send messages. A custom MSBuild task is also included which consumes these web services. Read More... Posted 01 November 2006 12:01 by john.rayner | 5 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net, Messenger, MSN Messenger Attachment(s): MessengerService.zip

• Getting FxCop to break the build

  EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved Recently I wrote a long post on our continuous build setup and what we had to do to get it all working. However, switching on FxCop wasn't quite as simple as I thought it was going to be. The Read More... Posted 05 October 2006 12:52 by john.rayner | 5 Comments Filed under: Development practices, Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net