@crpietschmann

About the TestDriven.net problem if you look at these mails

http://www.mutantdesign.co.uk/downloads/ExpressEmails1.html

Jamie's Mail:

..."Is there any chance you could let me know which specific clause in the
licence I was contravening? "...

Jason Weber's mail:

..."Since I'm not a lawyer I shouldn't comment on the license. However if
you read the Express SKU EULA you'll see verbiage around REVERSE ENGINEERING,"...

About to learn from the code, there is today wonderful FREE places to learn from code: CodeProject SourceForge CodePlex all the MONO implementation, ie. I learn with QBasic and VB3 like you =) what a funny days, but I didn't have Internet at that time...at least here in Argentina LoL

Ok ok I will stop to talk, maybe it is better for all, to let MS decide from us at any time and for anything. Is funny to see (and I'm not talking about u) that is saying that this is great, later said: why NDoc developer quit, or why NAnt takes too long for .NET 2.0 support, like some in the Frans's post said, maybe WE the .NET are the ones that don't get the OSS idea. I was a lot of time trying to be constructive with MS, I post a lot of suggestions to help open source projects in MS blogs or things like availability of fixes, but when I see something bad I try to said it loud to let others think in the other side.

I said all this as OpenSource developer. I used spend hundred and hundred of hours of my life for the community so I have the right to said that.

Best Regards
Marcos
www.filehelpers.com

Some other link that talk about the problems of open source whit that

@JudahGabriel

"But let's be practical here -- has Microsoft ever sued anyone for breaking the EULA by using Reflector? Come on.
Likewise, MS isn't going to sue if you create a class that looks a lot like the patented XYZ class."

You must be kidding did you read the history of TestDriven.NET ???

Microsoft is killing that project, sued the creator for use "reverse engineer" (aka reflector)

http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/07/06/microsoft-amp-testdriven-net.aspx

Tha patents of the Ribbon are a joke too, MS come to an agreement with Novel before sue them and Balmer said all the time that Linux is evil and break all her patents !!!

That's the real world, of course that some things are good, but have a lot of consequences, as an Open Source developer, and I feel that is not good at all, every one said that would be great to step into ASP.NET code, thanks to God I don't use ASP.NET for web development and for beginners will be really a pain neck to step into that code, jumping from one method to other.

Lets be real, this is useful for advance developers, the beginners will not learn too much from the code, like Frans said, for the companies is better to buy a book to them instead of the productive hours that them will waste watching the MS code.

@w3stfa11

Why do you think that we are creating FUD ??

We are simple developers, Frans depends on .NET for their work, this is about to don't believe anything that MS said and don't forget the last legal actions of MS.

Best Regards

I'm glad to hear that =)

I just post that story because was the first thing to come to my mind after what ups with TestDriven.Net and the way with MS sue anyone, and thinking in the Balmer words about Linux that breaks all patents, or thinking in the office ribbon.

Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but MS don't help me to be other way until today, so, maybe I will keep thinking in the counterpart.

BTW I agree that is a very very cool thing !! we stepping in into .NET frameworks is simply AWESOME !! and maybe some bugs in the framework can be fixed faster with this.

Miguel de Icasa has good words for it too and expose some other reasons for that

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-03.html

Best Regards

LoL

Did you read the page:

"If you have looked at Microsoft’s implementation of .NET or their shared source code, you will not be able to contribute to Mono. "

How do you think that an OpenSource project can exist without contributors ?

Best Regards

If you read in the page you will found the answer :P

Cheers

Here is the full history :

http://filehelpers.sourceforge.net/history.html#v2_0_0

and some movies & screencasts

http://www.filehelpers.com/movies.html

Best Regards

LoL

Yep is a bit long but is like to go to see Krzysztof Cwalina in a conference, So I know that it worth it, is less than time that you can spend reading the Excellent book: "Framework Design Guidelines" that contain the same info

Cheers

"The answer is quick and easy: build more reliable and robust applications (using the Windows Server "Longhorn" features)"

funny, funny :)

Not is Win2003 Sp2 the reliable now :P

I´m out

hahahah is very very funny ..

M$ remember me a little girl that wants all what others have !!!

Let the iPhone to be the best phone on earth !! Stop spending money on copy them, and do things that really work !!!

Cheers

Good news !!

Maybe they can release the Sp1 for the release day of Win Vista :P

(2.8 Mb !! hahaha)

Cheers

Is also very useful to loop through the internal controls, for example I use some code to hide the Status bar of the crystal report viewer and to change some values in winforms controls =) of course that nothing of this cant be posible without REFLECTOR.

Best Regards

Wow you never stop Gavin. Congrats on that and I´ll try to contribute regulary =)

.. and this guys on Google always with new crap ideas !!! and leting the final users to customize them...

Cheers
Marcos

Check the wikipedia page of Xgl for more info, history and a lot of links to LiveCds and videos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl

Best Regards

About the graphics I use the cool icons from the linux world in all my apps and I love them, the vista clones are better than the originals in MS =)

Here are the main sources

http://www.kde-look.org
http://www.gnome-look.org/

The Bests

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=31585

Crystal Clear : http://yellowicon.com/addicons/dl.php?id_icon=210&filename=Crystal Clear.tar.gz
(1094 icons !! from http://www.everaldo.com)

Some others that I daily use

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=38098

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=38467

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=38045

Cheers & Happy coding

I read all the comments there yesterday =)

And I´ve posted some not happy commnets.

The Sp makes my VS2005 a lot faster in debug mode =) and I try to make it hang up and I dont get it yet.

So... Good work M$ this is what we need a year ago =)

Cheers

I´m installing now .....

finger crossed =)