Msdn published an interesting article concerning the new XML possibilities of the IDE Visual Studio 2005.

Summary:

Download it here.

For the one that did not know (is that possible?):

I am having an issue with my groove pro accounts. I reported that to groove supprt and till that time I am waiting that they fix the issue. This evening I just made a check update from the groove interface and know it is downloading. I really hope that thiw update will fix my issue cause I can’t work with my pro data since 2 weeks. More to come when the update is finished.

Update: I still get the same error after installing the update. I am so :-( Going to bed…

Yeah that’s right R# Resharper 1.0 is released today by Jetbrains. I find this addin a must. I tested it for a certain time now and I am impressed about it.

I wrote two articles (in French) about it published on my web site Tech Head Brothers:

I needed to create a virtual directory in IIS 6 during the deployment of one of our backend application on a Windows 2003 server. This application is a COM component written in C++ that I developed wrapping a very old VB6 COM component. The whole exposed as a Web Service using the SOAP Toolkit 3. I already discussed about it here.

So I created a script that will register both COM component, by the way regsvr32 is really bad cause it doesn’t return different value if it fails. Right now I have no verification in the script that let me know if the registration went well. I plan to add it in a second step by reading the content of the registry using the reg command. The script is using the SOAPVDIR.CMD packaged with the SOAP Toolkit 3 to create the Virtual Directory with the soap ISAPI of the SOAP Toolkit 3: