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Spring Alt.Net Pledge Drive

April 23, 2008 I just wanted to take a moment out of our regular blog-cast to tell you that Alt.Net is supported by listeners readers like you. Smart people work really hard volunteering all their free time and energy to put out great open source software for our community. We need to keep these people coding not wasting their time drumming up consulting gigs or looking for jobs. Just wanted to read off a couple names of people that just contributed. Thank you Ray Houston for donating. You must have deep pockets with that sir name. Oh, and I see Chad Myers donated he is always a regular contributor. I see that Anders donated. Thanks Anders for your donation and for C# we all love it. You TOO can make a difference and if you act right now we have a matching pledge…

Intellisense for editing NAnt build scripts

October 29, 2007 This post is inspired by a thread on the Alt.Net yahoo group complaining that authoring NAnt build scripts is a pain. I agree to a point but until a better build system is ready I want to help fellow NAnt disciples by sharing one of my favorite tricks for boosting NAnt scripting productivity. This is a quick guide on getting Intellisense working for NAnt under VS.Net 2005 and better yet some automation to do it for you.     The basics   Included with each NAnt release is a schema file that includes all the legal elements and attributes annotated with documentation on how to use them. After copying this file into your VS.Net XML schemas directory you get Intellisense when editing XML files with appropriate the NAnt namespace declared (the NAnt FAQ).   Automate it   While you could look for the schema file and…

MVC Code Crush

October 10, 2007 It feels a little warmer over here sitting around the Microsoft developer Alt.campfire. Microsoft just came on out and publicly embraced the MVC pattern for web development (think Rails). Nestled gently inside of Asp.Net they have planted a nucleus of testable, extensible, and separation of concern compliant goodness. I can’t wait to watch it grow and mature. While watching Scott Gu present their MVC on Asp.Net Framework (can we get a cooler codename please?) at the Alt.Net conference I felt very strange. I felt that suddenly Microsoft gets me. At the time it would have seemed pretty normal to have Scott Gu break into song with smiling woodland animals surrounding him nodding to the beat. I think they slipped stuff into the coffee. They pretty much nailed everything I love about Rails and MonoRail and .Net under one umbrella. Lets…

Being Alt.Net

The Alt.Net conference held right here in Austin last weekend was awe inspiring. The quality of the people who came and the sessions they convened was outstanding. This was my second Open Spaces conference and I don’t want to go back to the old way. Much that I wanted to discuss was talked about. I would have attended each and every session there if it was humanly possible. Torn between sessions like DDD-jujitsu and A Microsoft Futurespective I was often flitting between sessions. Sorry there was no Developing Zune plugins session going on. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I feel confident the tenants of this movement will continue to grow and dare I say become normal and everyday. I want to thank each and everyone that came from near and far to attend I learned a lot…