Phew what a name, well if you want consistent style across developers this is the tool for you. Previously known as StyleCop inside Microsoft. Microsoft Source Analysis is pretty much a mandatory addition to any team development toolkit.
In the same way the FxCop helps "focus" developers towards consistent better quality code , StyleCop does the same with code style. But also like FxCop , StyleCop will make a lot of developers gnash their teeth, while they get used to it.
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is out for testing.
Scott has a great blog post on SP1, but the highlights (which are numerous)
- Classic ASP intelisense and debugging is back
- Faster application startup time
- Better client side rollout
- New Windows Form Controls
- WPF Performance Improvements
- WPF Extensible shader effects
- WPF Direct3D interface
- WPF Design surface improvements in VS2008
- ADO.NET Entity Framework included
- WCF - 5-10x scalability improvements
- WCF Enhanced Test Client
and best of all more Red Squiggles for the C# compiler
You can download and use the beta now here
there are TFS improvements but Richard will be blogging about those
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After years of discussions with clients that their ever and rapidly changing requirements could only be met if we implemented a telepathic interface to read their users minds, Microsoft have done the decent thing and released Microsoft® ESP™. Now Microsoft are saying that ESP is a toolkit to allow developers to build realistic simulations and models that are rich and easy to use, but we know the truth ;)
if you want to find out more here is a video you must watch.
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I hope you all had a great Star Wars day, May the 4th be with you.
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The BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is a management pack for discovery and monitoring of BizTalk Server components and applications. This new management pack includes monitoring for most of the new R2 Features
- Suspended Message Alerts
- Alert Suppression Policy
- Native EDI
- BAM Technical Assistance Alerts
- BizTalk Message Boxes and Hosts
- Orchestration Failures
- Service Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Monitoring of various aspects of RFID
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