I've been doing a lot of static analysis on our projects at work lately. As part of that task we added NCover to our automated build process. Our build runs on Team Build (TFS) and is specified in an MSBuild file. We wanted to take code metrics very seriously and we purchased the complete version...
A few years ago I had an interesting discussion with some of my then coworkers about the XML comments in our code. XML comments were useful in some cases because we were writing some libraries to be shared with many of our applications. We kept the DLLs, the XML and the CHM all in the build folder for...
Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just stitch pieces together) I'll make it available...
Since I started using Visual Studio 2005 and now 2008 it bugs me that strings in the debug windows (Immediate, Watch, Locals, Autos, etc) are automatically escaped in C# syntax (well, at least in C# projects.) Let's assume we are writing some code that produces HTML (or XML, or SQL, or JSON, etc...