As part of my process of moving the Tourney Bracket Control to .NET 2.0, I had to revisit signing. We sign our control, and we did it through the AssemblyInfo.cs file in 1.1. That doesn't work in 2.0. You now have to do it through the properties of the… more »

I'm starting to research what it's going to take to write the Tourney Bracket Control in ASP.NET 2.0, and I found the first cool new feature. There's a new base class for custom controls. Before, if you were doing anything remotely complicated (i.e, not… more »

Oddly enough, just the other day I watched this webcast about how the enterprise Library is being applied "in the wild." One of the guys on the video talked about releasing a data tier generator he wrote. Well, today, I saw this user sample come across,… more »

This is completely off-topic, but I found a link to Google Sight Seeing, and it's pretty cool. It's a site that highlights interesting satellite images that people have found. I spent some time a week ago going through all of their archives while watchi… more »

This'll be a shortened version due to the holiday, and the fact that I'm about 3 days behind on reading my feeds. No time to read when you spend the weekend on Spring Lake and Lake Michigan. It's OK though. There's not much news this week anyway. With th… more »

Well, here it goes! The inaugural edition of RossCode Weekly. We'll see how it goes. Let me know what you think! New MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search released. I installed it, and I've been happy with it so far. The memory footprint seems to be smaller th… more »

A minor revision of CruiseControl.NET was released today. Here's the release notes. It looks like it offers a few new things that are pretty cool. You can now install the service more than once, allowing a name to be given to the service. That's cool. It… more »

MetaSapiens, via Fabrice Marguerie, has released their first product, and it's free! It's a cool component for managing URLs called PageMethods. It makes using URLs much easier, or at least it looks like it does. We ran into these same issues, and our s… more »

I'm finally making some progress on my Podcast backlog. At one point, I was up to almost 100 hours of back log. I started pairing down the list and listening to some, and now I'm down to less than 45 hours. While I've been going through them, I've final… more »

Jeremy Miller has another good post about what constitutes quality unit tests. He says one thing that I've seen debated elsewhere. Unit tests should be order independent. Steven Smith has a post arguing that a unit test relying on another one might not b… more »