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Resharper Discount

September 24th, 2009 Niklaus Wirth's Ghost No comments

I’m in the market for Resharper and Latish pointed me to David Ridgway’s blog. David has a offer for an extended trial period and 10% off the purchase of Resharper. I emailed David this morning and 13 minutes later, I had an email with the details. If you’re looking to evaluate or buy Resharper, drop by David’s place and give him a buzz.

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MSBuild Extension Pack Tip #1

September 21st, 2009 admin No comments

When using the MSBuildHelper in the MSBuild Extension Pack to access particular items in a collection, the Position is zero based just like arrays are. I have no idea if this is intuitive or counter-intuitive but it’s definitely not VB6tuitive.

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MSBuild and the CompactFramework

September 21st, 2009 admin No comments

If you are building Compact Framework projects using MSBuild or Team Server Build and you seem to be having exceptionally long build times, you can shorten those dramatically by turning off Platform Verification. We had a build that was running 15-20 minutes and it has been cut to 5 now.

This is your Tip of the Whenever I Get Around To It for this time period. Look for another tip whenever I get around to it.

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