Manchester UK - SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and
February 27, 2008 – 3:00 pmManchester UK - SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and VS.NET 2008 Launch Event
http://manchester.vbug.net/EventDetails.aspx?id=9 27 March 2008 17:30 The HEROES Happen {Here} Manchester launch of the latest set of Microsoft products - Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 will be an absolute blast. We’ll be exploring all three products with t…
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A “Very British Earthquake”
I’m off on my travels for the ebusiness group, on my second part of my tour. This week I’m in Lincolnshire and Derby talking about blogging for business (I did a couple of sessions in January). I spent 4 hours getting to Louth, in Lincolnshire, arriving tired, hungry and thirsty in a sma…
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Hardy Heron fixes existing features rather than adding new ones to Ubuntu 8.04
Want a sneaky peek at Ubuntu 8.04? Then you are in luck as the Hardy Heron Tribe 1 Alpha pre-release has just been made available for download. This will, in time, morph into 8.04 and is the first in a series of milestone CD images that is slated for distribution throughout the Hardy development cycle. According to Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek, posting at lists.ubuntu.com the Hardy Heron Tribe 1 images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Hardy. So what has changed since the Ubuntu 7 Gutsy…
Syndicated from Kiwidude’s Geek Spot
I’ve had this "quietly available" on the download page for a few weeks to gain feedback on any issues and with no known issues outstanding it seems appropriate to more publicly announce it.
A big change in NCoverExplorer 1.4.0 is that it is no longer published under the GPL license. I made this change for a number of reasons; amongst which was the concern that a number of companies have of deploying GPL based tools into their development process. This roadblock has been removed and should no longer prevent your companies from using this toolset.
My original choice of GPL was based on using the ICSharpCode 1.x texteditor control. I have now dropped that component in favour of using the superior (but commercial) Actipro SyntaxEditor control instead. The improvements are not only in stability and features but also visual as you can see below in the code highlighting screenshot. A splitter window is available as also shown.
So why should you upgrade to NCoverExplorer 1.4?
This release is less about adding new features (although there are some to be found) and more about stabilisation for the future. The core model code has been rewritten and better tested. There have been countless code coverage corner cases (say that five times in a row!) arise that should be better catered for. Better performance for .NET 2.0 users, lower resource usage, better error handling and some minor gui quirks addressed.
Some of the "internal" changes have spilled over externally. For instance the configuration file format used by NCoverExplorer.Console with /c has changed to support new features, although I have retained legacy compatibility for those who choose not to upgrade their build scripts immediately.
What about the new features? Well, the ones I did squeeze in were…
- Support for the //pm (profiling a process by name) argument in NCover 1.5.8;
- Copy command in the source code text area via right-click;
- Print preview command in the File menu;
- /fc argument for NCoverExplorer.Console to fail a build if the combined total coverage of all assemblies does not meet the minimum specified. This was the original behaviour of the /f command before it was changed to fail if any individual assembly does not meet the minimum;
- Coverage exclusions now support the ‘?’ wildcard and multiple ‘*’ wildcards within the expression.
- Report xml contains a "totalSeqPoints" attribute as requested for developers writing alternate xsl reports that need to calculate the excluded code at each level;
- Update the NAnt/MSBuild task dlls to support the latest changes;
- Redesigned the options dialog as shown below;
Yahoo Releases YUI 2.5
The latest release of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library includes six new Ajax components, such as an image cropper, a file uploader, and a dual-thumb slider, and significant updates to the data table, layout managers, and other components. YUI 2.5 now also comes with over 270 examples and expanded documentation.
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