May 2007 - Posts

VS Macro to insert TODO
04 May 07 04:59 PM | john | 2 Comments   

Here's another useful VS macro. When I write code there are always weird edge cases that I think of while so I like to liberally sprinkle // TODO: comments around. When you do this though you should always put in your alias and the date. That way someone Read More...

Filed under: .net 2.0, visual studio, macro, c#, .net, vs

Running MSBuild scripts programmatically
01 May 07 11:39 AM | john | 2 Comments   

I love msbuild. Before it came along I was a big nant user, but now I'm an msbuild convert. It's not perfect, but it sure is better than batch files. It really, really needs embeddable code snippets, and a debugger but once it has those it will totally Read More...

Filed under: .net 2.0, c#, .net, msbuild

Putting SxS errors in your face
01 May 07 09:18 AM | john | 2 Comments   

There are two schools of thought when it comes to unrecoverable software errors. One say that errors should be in your face and the other says that errors should be hidden (or at least smoothed over). It's not hard to see that the latter is a good approach Read More...

Filed under: windows, vista, sxs, 2003, xp, side-by-side