UPDATE: Problem solved thanks to some members of the IIS 7 team! I am at my wits end trying to get IIS 7 to work on my Vista Ultimate box and I have tried everything I can think of. I’ve tried every step in the following tutorial, Where did my IIS7 Server go? Troubleshooting “server not found” errors. I also tried every step in this post on troubleshooting “service unavailable” errors. Trust me when I say I went through every one of these steps twice. Rob Conery can back me up on this because he watched me do so...
Simone Chiaretta, a member of the Subtext team (not to mention many other projects), just released a Vista Gadget which allows you to monitor a CruiseControl.NET build within your sidebar. It looks spiffier than the system tray applet that comes with CCNET. Here’s a screenshot of it docked. And undocked. From the screenshots you can see the status of the projects he is monitoring. The good news is that the 1.9 build has been fixed since he took these screenshots. Pretty nifty! Technorati tags: Vista, Gadget, CCNET, CruiseControl.NET, Build Process
Update: I have an even better startlet for stopping and starting services in my comments.
If you’re running Vista, run, don’t walk, and go download and install Start++ (thanks to Omar Shahine for turning me on to this). Make it the first thing you do. Many thanks to Brandon Paddock who developed this nice little tool. He describes the tool in this post.
I have a message for Start++ from the Start menu. “You complete me!”.
Ok, terribly corny jokes aside, it’s the little things that save me lots of time in the long run. For example, starting and stopping SQL server is kind...
UPDATE: I could not slip the subtle beg for an MSDN subscription I surreptitiously embedded in this post past my astute readers. Many thanks to James Avery for contributing an MSDN subscription to this grateful developer. Now that I have my MSDN subscription, I say this whole VPC licensing thing is a non-issue and quit whining about it. (I joke, I joke!). In a recent post I declared that Virtual PC is a suitable answer to the lack of backwards compatibility support for Visual Studio.NET 2003. In the comments to that post Ryan Smith asks a great question surrounding the licensing issues involved. ...
I read this article recently that describes the mind frying complexity of the Windows development process. With Vista sporting around 50 million lines of code, it’s no wonder Vista suffers from delays. Quick, what does line #37,920,117 say? Microsoft has acknowledged the need to release more often (as in sometime this millenia), but that agility is difficult to achieve with the current codebase due to its immense complexity as well as Microsoft’s (stubbornly?) heroic efforts to maintain backward compatibilty. The author of the article labels this the Curse of Backward Compatibility. I don’t think anyone doubts that maintaining backwards compatibility can be...