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lovethedot.blogspot.com — The original story (http://www.dotnetkicks.com/csharp/Microsoft_cracking_down_on_community_extensions) got quite a bit of traffic from here. There've been some clarifications and updates from Microsoft and the StyleCop team that, I think, make their position clear and reasonable -- also, the original how-to that had been taken down "at Microsoft's request" is back up. A lot of people kicked the original story, so I hope you'll all take the opportunity to read Microsoft's responses and give them fair consideration. read more...
lovethedot.blogspot.com — What do online dating and customer requirements have in common? Sometimes telling the customer "no". read more...
lovethedot.blogspot.com — Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...
lovethedot.blogspot.com — A rant on the inadvisability of scheduling 40-day tasks. Can you really provide an accurate status on an 8-week task by saying "sure, it's 70% done"? read more...
lovethedot.blogspot.com — Link to the June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extension Library from Microsoft and commentary on multi-threaded, parallel computing; why we need to learn it and how these libraries will make it easier to do, but not necessarily easier to do well. read more...
lovethedot.blogspot.com — Step-by-step instructions for creating your own custom rules for Microsoft's StyleCop add-in for Visual Studio. read more...
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