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In a recent Hanselminutes podcast show " Moving your email into the Cloud " Scott Hanselman and Carl Franklin agreed to do some testing and evaluate the relative merits of Google Apps and Windows Live Custom Domains for email hosting (amongst other things). In a supporting post on Scott's blog...

Migrating legacy email content to Windows Live Mail using Outlook Connector →

I just emailed Jamie Cansdale at TestDriven.NET but in the meantime, this might come in useful to someone out there using TestDriven.NET... As discussed in the FAQ you can use access appSettings values from a .config file. I discovered a way of making this just a little bit easier to manage: Add an App...

Using .config files with NUnit and TestDriven.NET →

Fed up of having to vote against the policies you hate most (tactical voting) rather than voting for the party or policies you really wanted to vote for?... I wish I had known sooner about The Guardian's campaign as I would certainly have liked to have worn a peg on my nose while giving Tony my little...

UK political rant →

The other day I was looking again at where the excellent FlexWiki project has been progressing and I decided I'd like to download the sourcecode, only to realise I'd need a CVS client to access the source-control database. I promptly downloaded TortoiseCVS and was stunned to discover how easy it was...

Subverting Tortoises →

I passed my first MCP exam today with a satisfyingly high score (hint: > 900)! I'm delighted to be able to say with confidence that I am now a certified expert in Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C#.Net and Visual Studio.NET (070-315) [UPDATE] after kind congrats from Thomas...

MCP-me →

This is just to test that my new dasBlog blog is cross-posting OK to my SharePoint blog and to my dotnetjunkies blog

Welcome to my new blog. Don't expect much content just now as I want to work out how to migrate articles from my dotnetjunkies blog first, and to consider the implications of moving over from a blog that has a referral from MSDN ! [UPDATE] The entries from my SharePoint themed blog carried over beautifully...

my dasBlog has liftoff →

I discovered today that Indexing List Items so that they appear in Search Results doesnt happen by default and I thought "surely this can't be right". Luckily (thanks to Daniel McPherson) if you follow this link you'll see that you can still enable this on a list-by list basis...

Indexing list items in SPS search results →

Christa Carpentiere has done yet another implementation of reporting off an ADO.Net Dataset but this time it's in an MSDN article , and it's in both VB.Net and C#. This one add something interesting though, as it also shows how you might call an external assembly to generate the DataSet....

New MSDN article on Custom Data Processing Extension →

Toby Riley emailed me to alert me to his extension that can take a select query and execute it against any DB using a connection string as a parameter and pass the data back to the designer: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/appworld Another blogger of note has also come online , lead developer for the...

More on Data Processing Extensions →