Nice Pattern

 
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No, not as in "GOF Design Pattern" but as in "Call Pattern".

I was coding some Web Controls (not my favorite thing) and I needed a way of adding one or more control to an existing one.  ControlCollection.Add just allows one item at a time so I was experimenting while creating a comfortable API. I found out this pattern that allows a lot of flexibility as we can call the method, with one element and various in the shape of a collection (IEnumerable<T>) or in the shape of separated parameters in case the number of items is low.

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Automatic Properties Weirdness

 
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In my current project I was doing some 3.5 coding (at last!!!) and I found something really weird at first glance.

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Visual Studio 2008 and Quality

 
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Ok, now I am writing this while I am still angry. I know I shouldn't, but I really can't help it.

I have been using Visual Studio since it's been RTM.

Call me a chicken, cheap or whatever you like, fut I have always felt weird doing QA for Microsoft for free. So I did not use their CTPs or Betas that much and therefore I did not submit any suggestion or reported any bug. Should I complain then? Absolutely YES.

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Visual Studio 2008 Migration and Unit Tests

 
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At work we migrated our 2.0 solution from Visual Studio 2005 to a Visual Studio 2008.

I have successfully migrated myself some pet projects (both library projects and web application projects). I had not tested migrating Visual Studio Tests projects since I don't use them myself, preferring the faster, more stable and extensible NUnit.

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Moss, Url Rewriting and Content Editor Web Parts

 
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After a long silence... here we go again!!

And what better to come back than with a nice-long history?

We have this Commerce Server Site that uses Moss as it's content manager. We will have (someday) content-only pages, but for now, we have data-driven catalog pages. They are still Moss pages, that contain web parts that display catalog information based on what there is in the url.

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Picking on Moss

 
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Wow, I am in the need to rant against Moss. That's how ungrateful I am.

I do not think I am asking too much of one of the flagship products from Microsoft. A product that it's meant to be (amongst 1500 other things -I feel pity for the guys writing the features document for Moss-) the web content management solution (once CMS is defunct) offer from Microsoft. Note that we are not talking about a 3-odd employee shop somewhere in a remote country serving solution for local clients doing some niche activity.

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