If you are migrating to VS.NET 2005 and converting projects, the VS.NET conversion wizard will do that for you. Then you can use MSBee to compile into both 1.1 and 2.0 assemblies.

 

However, if you are migrating the build process perhaps before all projects in your organization have migrated, people will still be developing in VS.NET 2003 for some time, yet you want to have a standardized build process, around MSBuild.

 

This little MSBuild task will convert a VS.NET 2003 project on the fly so that you can use MSBuild to compile it.

 

Pretty niche scenario, yet since I found myself there, others probably will too.

 

It is easy to use, you just slap a Using element and then use the task, giving it the projects name. Thats it. Installation is xcopy. The readme gives step-by-step instructions. Happy building!

ConvertTo2005.zip (10.87 KB)

Agile methods focus on the people issues in developing software; the people perspective of the open source movement - ie the community - is often the perspective that is most emphasized and cherised, for good reason. People are always the focus, technology is secondary.

Rob Mensching at microsoft (who is behind MS open source - CPL - licensed WIX installer toolkit) has a very nice post about the people part of OSS.

Are all of the agile practices so new?

My presentation last week on effective development of existing code in .NET using testsupport seemed to have been very appreciated.  The materials can be downloaded from the dotway site, the directlink is this.

I had atleast double the amount of material prepared, but we needed to focus on some basics as well which made the available time less. The download includes the presented material only, in order to not confuse too much. (Dotway plug: If you are interested in more testsupport techniques such as TDD and what I talked about this time, we do offer a 2 day introductory course announced here).

This week I get some vacation in the alps.
 

I will be talking about Continuous Integration at Nordev 2006, although it has been renamed to/rebranded as Developer Summit 2006. The agenda is to be posted at the site shortly. The event takes place May 31st to June 1st in Kista.