Udi Dahan gives insight into nservicebus future and commercial options for nservicebus. Read post intro and comment 23 about pricing options:

http://nservicebus.grouply.com/message/8259

Announcement nservicebus, udi dahan

Just a short notice. If you are using Resharper 5.1 under Windows7 and xunit.contrib and your unit tests are not executed anymore in VS2010 you need to check the following:

1. Close all running VS2010 instances
2. Upgrade to latest xunit.contrib for Resharper 5.1
3. If you have xunit.contrib under Program Files\Jetbrains\Resharper\..\Bin\Plugins then move them to
   [Root]:\Users\[YourUser]\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\ReSharper\v5.1\vs10.0\Plugins\XunitContrib
4. Open VS2010 again and you should be able to run the unit tests in unit test runner of Resharper again.

Hope that helps

.NET, Announcement Resharper, VS2010, Windows7, Xunit, Xunit.Contrib

We use a lot of open source libraries and components in our daily business. Open source libraries provide us a big advantage regarding time to market with our products. Every time when we are facing a problem in our software (problem is related to business domain to implementation domain difficulties) we first look into the open source world if someone has already solved that problem or even parts of it. Sourceforge, codeplex and google code (to name a few) are often the first pages we visit to look for code samples, libraries and frameworks. But how can we find the needle in the haystack?

Agile, Methodology, Software apache2, CodePlex, GitHub, Google, Open source, Select framework, select library, sourceforge

The WeTab has been launched! Some blog posts declared the WeTab as THE iPad Killer. We will see how the WeTab revolutionizes the tablet pc world. The features of WeTab are amazing:

See: http://wetab.mobi/ (Currently only available in Germany for 569 euro the 32 GB/3G version)

What do you think about the WeTab?

Announcement Tablet Pc, WeTab

Some of the blog posts recently declared NAnt as a dead project. But I can assure you that NAnt is not dead!

Some days ago NAnt 0.90 RC1 has been released. Check it out: http://nant.sourceforge.net/

And what about NAnt and .NET 4.0? Look at this blog post

.NET, Announcement .NET 4.0, NAnt

Living and breathing Scrum means for a team being self organized. My experience in different Scrum projects tells me that this is not always an easy task to grasp. Experienced Agile teams are self organized when it comes to maintain the code base or gathering information for user stories from the product owner. But what happens when soft skills are involved?

Agile, Methodology scrum, Self Organized, team

The creators of typemock have recently published Test Lint. Test Lint is a free extension for Visual Studio 2010 which looks for common problems in your unit test code as you type.

Announcement, Test Driven Development, Testing Roy Osherove, Test Lint

Finally the latest news about Windows Phone 7 is arrived and it seems that Microsoft has ultimately learned its lessons. Windows Phone 7 has a totally news concept regarding what we are used to have with the Windows Mobile editions. But the Windows Phone 7 concept is not only new for “Microsoftish” phones it is also totally new for all smart phone operating systems on the market (including iPhone).

Mobile, Software Microsoft, Smartphone, Windows Phone 7

I’m heavily experimenting with git using github.com. Just in case you’ll ever receive the following error message:

failed to push some refs

Don’t panic as I did! Just need to make a pull request first because there might be changes that we need to pull in. Afterwards it is easy possible to push your changes to github.com. Have fun!

Announcement Failed, Git, GitHub, Push

Just a quick announcement. I wrote together with Alain Baumeler from bbv Software Services AG an article about hybrid application development targeting both .NET and .NET compact framework. The article is written in German and published in the .NET Magazin.

Here is the quick overview of the article:

Hybride Softwareentwicklung in .NET – Einführung in die Vorteile und Patterns der hybriden Softwareentwicklung für .NET Compact und .NET Framework

Mobile Geräte mit Windows Mobile sind trotz zunehmender Konkurrenz bei Businessapplikationen vielfach die erste Wahl. Dieser Artikel führt in die Thematik der hybriden Softwareentwicklung ein und zeigt deren Vorteile und etablierte Patterns anhand von Praxisbeispielen in .NET.
von Daniel Marbach und Alain Baumeler

For those who are interested in mobile application development and fluent in reading German language I really recommend our article! Buy the magazine Thanks for your support.

http://it-republik.de/dotnet/dotnet-magazin-ausgaben/Parallel-Programming-000333.html

I’m also happy about feedback. Leave comments either by email or by posting your comment on planetgeek!

Announcement, Mobile .NET Magazin, Article, Hybrid Mobile Application Development