Published on
March 12, 2006.
I already read a lot about the Mono-Project which allows to develop and run .NET applications on Unix-compatible platforms (e.g. GNU/Linux, MAC OS X), but never tried it out. But now I thought, its time to check how well it works and how easy it is to write applications that run as well with Micrsoft .NET Framework and Mono.
I started with setting up a VMware with GNU/Linux (with Ubuntu) and all things needed to work with Mono: MonoDevelop, NUnit, NAnt, Subversion.
From time to time I’ll report about my experience with Mono. For today it’s enough.
Published on
March 11, 2006.
In Visual Studio 2005 the built-in Web Site and Web Service Project is very restricted. For the ones who already worked with the predecessor projects in VS 2003 it is inscrutable why Microsoft replaced them with such “toy projects”. I do not know, why web projects should be much less configurable than all other projects. We used it in our project and it really was not easy to work with it and it was hard to integrate it bug free in the nightly build (by default it does not generate a binary, it has no post and pre build steps and it is hard to maintain the references).
Now it seems the Microsoft is alarmed about the problem. They are currently developing a VS 2005 Web Application that is not limited any more and has to look and file of the other VS 2005 projects. It works for web sites and web services.
A preview is available here: Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview
There is also a new project, that makes deployment of web applications easier: Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects (Beta V2 Preview)
