Finally the latest version of windows live writer seems to work with my blogging engine. Seems they have made some updates to allow blogware engine support for categories etc. Or maybe I just missed these on previous releases. Anyhoo, looks good.

....and commence downloading.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-shipped.aspx

I've been using this plugin now for the past few months. You would not believe the difference it makes.

This plugin puts a little search box right into Visual Studio to make it easy to find work items.  It is an addin for Team Foundation Client (Team Explorer) and is accessible from the Team menu when you're connected to a Team Foundation Server and is also avalible from a VS Toolbar.  You just type in some search text and it runs a work item query for you showing you results across the work item store.

Source: Codeplex project "Search Work Items"

Melted my own brain for a few hours with this one today. Essentially a self-constrained generic base class looks like the following.

This allows me to put some generic implementations in a base class for code that I would simply duplicate otherwise. For example:

Enjoy!