Scott Dorman writes Absolutely not! While I understand the desire to monetize every "product" coming out of Microsoft, it sometimes ends up hurting the community as a whole...The other problem is that you then start sending mixed signals to the community. On one hand you say that running static code analysis is a best practice but you then restrict that capability to companies/developers willing to spend $10K+ on a Team System SKU. This makes it hard for the community to recognize the real value since it becomes seen as a restricted/ elite/ enterprise-only feature. It also makes it harder for us to talk about things...

Scott Hanselman writes "...Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of IIS7's modular design to release a bunch of new modules out-of-band. Both the newest ISAPI_Rewrite and Apache's standard mod_rewrite module uses distributed configuration files or .htaccess files.Here's just part of my .htaccess file that makes sure that all the incoming URLs end up at the final canonical..."

Liam Cleary writes "After some basic investigation it became evident that the Alternate Access Mappings had not been set for the FQDN but only for the short name URL. I am still a little unsure as to why it failed, unless I use reflector to see what the web part is actually trying to do...If you need some guidance on Alternate Access Mappings then see the links"

Rob Mensching writes "One of the first big changes to WiX v3 was to add the ability for lit.exe to create "binary .wixlib" files which contained the referenced files in a cabinet file prepended to the .wixlib's XML blob. This gave us the best features of both of .wixlib files and Merge Modules, as long as you are using the WiX v3 toolset everywhere..."

Jeff Guillet writes "...The WMI service maintains text log files for all operating systems earlier than Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...Most of these log files are configured to automatically wrap every 64KB. When the log file reaches this limit, it is renamed to logfile.lo_ and a new log file is created. Unfortunately, this does not happen with the Framework.log file - it will continue to grow indefinitely..."

Luke Hoban writes "Standard deviation is a pretty straightforward computation with F#. There’s a few ways to write it, but with “average” and “average_by” built-in, they provide a particularly simple option....This is really compelling, because it’s a case where two data sources which are conceptually very similar are often programmed in very different ways..."

Wouter van Vugt writes "...My grievance is that I actually need to start this tool to get a GUID, copy and then paste it...I decided to fix that little error. I first tried to do a macro to copy a new GUID to the clipboard, but macro's don't run STA, so OLE calls to the clipboard failed...First you create a Console Application..."

Harry Waldron writes "Sunbelt is continuing to warn on three brand new variants from the AntiVirus 2009 family. These products try to simulate legitimate security products and will infect vulnerable systems..."

Tim Heuer writes "Fast forward to release builds for Silverlight 2. No Chiron. Hey, what’s up? Chiron is still available for you if you want it. It is a part of the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK which is available on Codeplex. So if you need/want it..."

Julie Lerman writes "...The study found that the teams with the 50/50 balance of men & women were the ones who most prominently displayed the facets that lead to innovation. They didn't spike off the charts, but they were consistently a little higher in each category...She also talked about stereotypes and used as a great example how Nokia made their cell phones pink as a "feature" for women..."

Tina Clarke writes "Now available the Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook V1 can be obtained at the low launch price of $45 Normally priced at $55 the offer won’t be available for long so take advantage now... This ebook is best way forward for those users who are struggling with not only how to clean their code, but how to make a dwt, validat their pages..."

Sara Ford writes "Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested 2005 myself. Warning: To enable this tip, you’ll need to modify your registry settings Follow the instructions below at your own risk."

Jeff Guillet writes "This can happen when Windows XP clients attempt to start the Automatic Updates service and is due to a permissions issue. The quickest and the easiest solution would be to reset the permissions for the Automatic Updates service on the client and then start the service. To display the current permissions of the Automatic Updates service and fix them:"

VB Team writes "The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception...Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the following..."

Jonas Folleso writes "Automated unit testing of code has become a common development practice, and as developers we have a wide variety of frameworks to pick from to help us do testing. A common misperception is that any test written using a testing framework is a unit test. That is not necessary true...the types of tests I normally write when building Silverlight applications..."

Edward Bakker writes "Christian Weyer just announced that he decided to open up development of his very successful Web Service Contract First (WSCF) tool. The new release, named WSCF.blue, targets WCF and can be found on CodePlex..."