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re: Thank you Visual Studio

Tzahi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:15:18 GMT

One year later...

Thank you chrisortman . Your posts saved us many long hours.

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re: Using msbuild to create a bootstrapper for you installer

chrisortman — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:45:01 GMT

@Amy yes, or there is a command line switch you can pass, I think it is /ToolsVersion

re: Using msbuild to create a bootstrapper for you installer

Amy Rosewater — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:58:51 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the posting. I am attempting to modify my msbuild file after a recent upgrade from 2.0 to 3.5, and this is helpful...however, when you say "make sure MSBuild is using the 3.5 ToolsVersion or it won't find the merge modules" do you mean by setting the ToolsVersion attribute of the Project node to "3.5"?

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re: Developer Exchange Program Pt2

Steven Harman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:31:08 GMT

I agree that the swap-a-coder might not be the best approach, and instead going for a round-robin style trading pattern might work best. Keep me posted!

re: The Developer Exchange Program

chrisortman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:04:32 GMT

@Chris Bilson: Thanks for the tip that would be a great team to see in action.

re: The Developer Exchange Program

James Thigpen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:20:15 GMT

I think this is a phenomenal idea. I heard about it at #altdotnet but I never got a chance to talk to you about it. I just pitched the concept to my boss and he *loved* the idea. I think it's a winner.

re: The Developer Exchange Program

Bil Simser — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:04:40 GMT

I'm all for this. Like you said, there's logistics involved but I would love to try this out. I think the biggest challenge though (that I'm not convinced it would work fully) is domain knowledge. Taking someone out of their element (say building a financial app) to another place to build say an invoice management system is a bit of a leap. On any project I've ever run we've needed at least a week or two to get familiar with the domain problem space and working with the customer on their needs. I'm not sure an exchange program would work in this manner. However you do say you would airlift yourself in for a week, then I would do the same for you. So really you're spending a week shadowing me and I'm shadowing you. I'm not sure you could actually get "real" work done on a project, but I'm certain there's optimizations in things like how the teams work, tuning the build process, etc. Things like that would be good for this kind of experience and I would welcome a new set of eyes looking at how we do things.

re: The Developer Exchange Program

Byron — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:10:39 GMT

This is a fantastic idea and one that i have been mulling over for about a year now.

Id be very willing to help out if you decide to get the ball rolling on this.

I run a small agile shop (sentia.com.au) in Sydney with 2 partners and we are very open to something like this.

Engaging Microsoft

Chad Myers' Blog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:55:24 GMT

Many Microsoft employees were at the ALT.NET conf in Seattle -- including many of the ones that have

There's a voice...

Kyle Baley - The Coding Hillbilly — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:59:44 GMT

This is a rehash of a post from the last blog but I was reminded of it again after reading about Chris

re: The Developer Exchange Program

Chris Bilson — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:26:26 GMT

Hi Chris,

This sounds like a great idea. Another person I talked to last month at Open Agile Northwest is doing the same thing: Arlo Belshee. It doesn't look like he has a weblog, but here's his linked in page [www.linkedin.com/.../0AB]. Here's his c2.com page: [c2.com/.../wiki]. I would contact him. Sounds like a really cool team to exchange with.

re: Using msbuild to create a bootstrapper for you installer

chrisortman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:39:41 GMT

@Jason: I am using Wixv3. I just got done upgrading to the last march build. I didn't know it could do this though. Is it part of an extension?

re: Using msbuild to create a bootstrapper for you installer

Jason Meridth — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:10:23 GMT

Awesome post Chris. Good to know MSBuild has this. I'm starting to make a full transition to MSBuild due to NAnt not keeping up with the .NET Frameworks.

Have you used WiX in the past? It also does this for you and you can include it into your Continuous Integration process.

Check it out if you haven't. The only catch is that it's easier to create a WiX project with SharpDevelop.

I enjoy reading your blog. Keep'em coming.