The C# 2.0 language specifications are available at the ECMA web site.

On the site, you can find complete CLI implementation specifications as well. All of this material is available for download as .pdf files.

I am planning to write a tool to do this for .net 2.0 solution and projects. More on this in a short while, but to do it manually, follow the steps below.

Steps:

1 - Go to the folder containing the solution files and delete the following:
          mssccprj.scc
          MyProject.vssscc
          vssver.scc

2 - Open MyProject.sln in your favorite text editor and remove the following section:
          GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) = preSolution
                     ...
          EndGlobalSection

3 - Go to the folder containing the project files and delete the following:
          MyProject.csproj.vspscc
          mssccprj.scc
          vssver.scc

4 - Open MyProject.vbproj in your text editor and remove the following lines:
          SccProjectName = "SAK"
          SccLocalPath = "SAK"
          SccAuxPath = "SAK"
          SccProvider = "SAK"

Now you can open the solution/project with no source control errors

Google made a nice splash last week by announcing Google Code Search, which allows searching public source code.  Cool.

Google is big and powerful, so everything they do gets lots of press.  But to be fair, it should be noted that Google wasn't first in this market.  Several other players were up and running before Google's offering:

• Koders
• Krugle
• Codase

Anyway, it is always nice to have a new player in the sandbox. In the same vein Dan Applemann has released a Google co-op search engine focused on .net. Try it at :

• SearchDotNet.com

MSDN has shipped a new article about the "ten Visual Studio Addins every developper should have". I particularly like TestDriven.net and the "Copy Code as HTML" addin.

TestDriven

This addin allows you to run Unit Tests directly from Visual Studio. Right-click anywhere in the code area and select "Run Tests".This will run the Unit tests and you will see the test results in the Output Window of Visual Studio. It also adds a contextual menu item called "Go to Reflector"  which allows you to go directly from a member in your code to the same member in Reflector TreeView Window. Cool !

You can see a list of the winner addins here.

I have been working on the new Theoreme Consulting Web site look and been struggling with HTML, DIV's and CSS tricks to make it look the way I want it to. (see screenshot for preview):

It's not quite finished but it seems to be on the way to something good. I hope to get some feedback from Thomas at Topic, especially since I'm planning to write a tutorial on his great ORM framework (which I have been using extensively with great pleasure).

I am writing this blog entry from the new Windows Live Writer (beta). This software seems pretty cool and it is actually nice to be able to blog from the desktop rather than from a Web-based interface. Couldn't resist the tentation to open this new blog and try this software out..

Screenshot :