Hi,

I just updated my blog site from b2evolution to WordPress. So enjoy the new skin!

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Known issues:

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Thanks.

Pascal.

Microsoft as made the .NET framework source code available. The interesting part is that you can configure Visual Studio 2008 to support stepping into the .NET Framework’s code automatically while debugging.

Instructions on how to setup Visual Studio 2008 are available from Shawn Burk’s blog here:
Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code

If you do not have Visual Studio 2008 or you just want to download the code for viewing… well, you will need to wait:

from Shawn’s blog post:

10) Can I just download all of the code at once?
Not currently, but we are currently working on enabling this functionality in the future.

14) Can I point a web browser at the symbols URL and download the symbols directly?
No, you’ll get an HTTP 400 (Bad Request) response.

Here is a series of posts from ScottGu’s blog about the new ASP.NET MVC Framework.  That seems pretty interesting…

• Part 1 – Introduction
• Part 2 – URL Routing
• Part 3 – Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views
• Part 4 – Handling Form Edit and Post Scenarios

Here is a link to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 training kit that contains a bunch of information, examples and labs (it’s about 120MB download).  Good to discover and try the new features of VS and the new framework.

Note: Check minimum system requirements first (only for labs).

Link: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

Migrating subversion from a Windows installation to a Linux installation is not just copying the repository structure and files. But it is still quite easy. Here are the steps:

1. Extract the repository data from Windows repository and store it into an OS independant format using the dump command:

   svnadmin dump [repo location] > [dump file]
   ex: svnadmin dump /svn/MyProject > c:\temp\MyProject.dmp

2. Upload the exported file on the Linux system.
3. Create a Subversion repository:

   svnadmin create [repo location]

4. Adjust security settings on the new repository directory (if necessary).
5. Restore the dump file into the new repository:

   svnadmin load [repo location] < [dump file]

Here is an example of loading a dumped file into a Subversion installation for accessing through Apache2 and Ubuntu Server 7.04:

1. create repository:

   sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/MyProject

2. change owner:

   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/MyProject

3. change security:

   sudo chmod -R g+ws /var/svn/MyProject

4. Load dump file:

   sudo svnadmin load /var/svn/MyProject < ~/MyProject.dmp

Here is an interesting serie of blog posts from Tobias to start learning Microsoft PowerShell:

• Day 1: Getting Organized
• Day 2: Writing Scripts and Translating VBScript
• Day 3: Discovering objects (COM, WMI & ADSI)
• Day 4: Ins and Outs of the Windows Registry
• Day 5: Using WMI
• Day 6: ADSI Connecting to Domains/Computers and Binding to Objects
• Day 7: Manage Users