June 11, 2006, 10:00 pm
“MSBee” is a free MS Build task that allows you to target earlier versions of the .NET Framework from within Visual Studio 2005. Out of the box, VS2005 will only allow you to compile for .NET 2.0.
This is a very helpful utility: just a few months ago I had a client balk at a project because we said “You’ll either have to run side-by-side .NET 1.0 and 2.0 assemblies, or the team will have to downgrade to VS2003, or we’ll have to move to command-line compiles.”
June 11, 2006, 4:00 am
MSDN has created a Wiki. This is a great idea. Just look at P/Invoke.NET to get a sense of how helpful a Wiki can be for user documentation. via Steve Pietrek
June 11, 2006, 2:00 am
I bought a couple Zalman Ultra-Quiet CPU Coolers for my still-unfinished dual-processor system, discovered that I couldn’t use them due to space issues with my MSI dual-core motherboard. So I put one on my old system. It’s quieter than the stock Intel Pentium fan, but so is a coqui frog (Hawaii reference. Or, apparently, Puerto Rico. Coqui’s are loud). I really think water cooling is in my future.
