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Microsoft released a new version of StyleCop - v4.3.1.3 last week and so we've just released a new compatible version of StyleCop for ReSharper. 

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 great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

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. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

Last week I was doing a lot of ASP.NET debugging – tracing through Microsoft AJAX web service calls and was getting a little frustrated of the time lag for starting a site in debug mode; I remembered a Visual Studio macro for attaching to the worker process and that I had rewritten in a couple of years ago to attach to multiple worker ...

Over the past few weeks I've been getting more and more messages from people who can't seem to get v1.1 to work with Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Fortuitously for them, a long train delay last night gave me the opportunity to make some fixes that have been long overdue since v1.1 was released almost a year ago. Changes in this release Rebuilt to ...

Shortly after the release of v1.0 I spotted a post from Pete Sheill, who said I had missed a couple of events and that I had included support for events that are no longer raised – or raised inconsistently. In this updated version I’ve added support for the following ...

Team Foundation Server offers some extensibility through event notifications these can either be in the form of an email notification or a SOAP Endpoint. To register a notification subscription you have to use the BisSubscribe.exe tool (see http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2006/02/01/522386.aspx for more information) - which allows you to ...

Today marks the end of Sprint 6 of development for ''Scrum for Team System''. This release is targeted against Team Foundation Server Release Candidate - it will not work on any previous version of Team Foundation Server. We've spent a lot of time improving the product thanks to some great feedback from our Beta Testers and internal teams who have ...

A slick shortcut I stumbled across while doing some hobby coding at the weekend. Add a new type to your class, in the code below it's an interface I want to implement. Place the cursor over word and a little Smart Tag indicator appears: Hit SHIFT-ALT-F10 and the smart tag menu appears with the option to add an import directive for the unknown ...

I've updated my Lithium based XMLVisualizer for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. You can download the updated source from my ProjectDistributor workspace. Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?"