Resharper 4.0 and Lambda Expressions

Now I'm fairly new to the wonderful world of Resharper, so barely a day goes by where I don't discover something new about it, or through it. But today I found a feature that just made me want to share about it straight away. Let me set the scene. I'm coding a Lambda expression for use as a predicate and when finished I notice the now familiar little light bulb. Hmmm I thought, now what could

NxtGenUG Fest '08

Just got back from an excellent day attending the NxtGenUG Fest '08 at Microsoft's campus at Reading. Like all NxtGen related events everything was smooth and incredibly well put together. I enjoyed all of the talks and some of them have definitely inspired me to go and hit the computer for a play. Mike Taulty's talk on ADO.NET Data Services was an excellent and engaging introduction to this

Revisited: Insufficient Permissions on web.config when delegating administration of a web site to remote users in IIS 7

I have been meaning to return to this since I first posted on it and gave my talk about the remote management of IIS 7 at NxtGenUG Southampton. Well I've finally gotten around to it. This error occurred when remote administration of an IIS 7 web site and/or application is delegated to an IIS 7 user, and that user attempts to alter a setting of the site/application from a remote machine. The

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Licensing Change

I'm looking into the licensing for TFS 2008 for my employers as my team are looking to migrate from VSS to TFS (hooray) and I have been asked to take the lead in this work. With TFS 2005 anyone who was going to raise issues (bugs, requests, and the like) in TFS, even if using the TeamPlain web client, had to have a valid CAL. This was a bit of an expensive pain and meant that at my last company (

Looking for a good developer

Recently where I work we have been interviewing candidates for developer roles in our team. I have been involved in conducting some of these interviews and this has been causing me to reflect on other interviews I have been involved in, both as candidate and interviewer. Most of the candidates that I have seen, both recently and over the years, have been fairly strong when it came to their

Using TextFieldParser objects and the My library in C# code

I read this article on InfoQ (a great site for information for those that don't know it) and saw that there might be some confusion about whether this useful class could be used in C# projects. The answer of course is yes. Just reference the Microsoft.VisualBasic dll in your project and away you go.The My library is a little different it does a whole bunch of different things, providing both new