It is all well and good Microsoft saying that a developers and designer can share the same project WPF/Silverlight files in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, but whilst Blend does not have the ability to use a source control repository (TFS, SVN or anything else for that matter) and actually strips out any source control binding it finds in a project file, this is for me unworkable experience. How has this product got to V2 without this feature?...
Just seen the keynote for Remix in Brighton, I must say that Bill Buxton’s part was one of the best keynotes I have seen (watch out for the streamed webcast). For me the most important thing for a keynote is to set the tone, the meme, for the conference and his session certainly did. OK it is good to see the demos of products but you can’t beat a good bit of thought provoking public speaking....
Do you feel alone, nobody nearby who you can talk to about TFS? Well try the new virtual user group meeting in Second Life. Only issue is the meeting will be 2am UK time by my reckoning.
Back home now after a excellent two days at Alt.Net in London. As with the spring conference this was a thought provoking event. I really like the whole open space format, though there were four ‘main sessions’ the event started the night before in the planning session and the bar and carried on without a pause, including the train trip home. The main sessions can be excellent; but it is usually the chat walking to get a coffee or over lunch was where you get a nugget of information that completes a picture for you....
I hit a problem today when trying to sign a powershell script as detailed on Scott Hanselman’s blog with a Thawte code signing certificate. The basic issue was that the certificate could be seen in the Personal section of the Certificates MMC snap-in. Also it was listed if I issued the Powershell command Get-ChildItem cert:CurrentUserMy but if I added the flag to only show usable codesigning (Class III) certificates it was not listed....