The Mark Mydland tour stopped in Cincinnati last night. CINNUG hosted a Special Event for Mark to give his presentation. It was great! Mark covers some of the new features of the VSTS Test Edition as well as some new tools making their way out of Microsoft Research. Mark has a lot of good stories and is definately one of those managers who likes to tell it how it is. One of the thing that came out last night was that they are working on getting MSTest as a stand alone entity that isn’t tightly coupled to Visual Studio.
From all accounts the Mark Mydland Tour of the Hearthland district is going great! Tonight the stop is here in Cincinnati at MAX Technical Training. Come on by as CINNUG is hosting Mark as one of their Special Events. The fun starts around 6:00 PM and pizza will be served about 7:15 or so.
More Information about Mark and what he’ll be talking about can be found at the CINNUG website.
I was doing some research this week around the publishing wizard for ASP.NET and stumbled across a MSDN Library article that made mention of something I head never heard of before: the App_offline.htm file. Apparently, this is a feature introduced in .NET 2.0 where if you simply create a file named App_offline.htm and place that in the root of your ASP.NET application then all requests to the application will be immediately redirected to this page.