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Did you know that you can nest #regions in VS.NET?  You can create hierarchies of regions...seems obvious, but it wasn't to me.  Thanks to Rocco for the tip.

Can't believe I didn't notice this...I'm off to claim my free PocketPC...

We have VS.NET2002 a project that hasn't been updated to VS.NET2003 and logisitically can't for a few weeks.  However, we had a need for a post-build file copy.  It's a large Online Banking project (since we do eBanking here at Corillian) for a very large Financial Institution, so there's lots of people working on the project at once.  Ordinarily the project is built with the increasingly snazzy NAnt so these post-build processes are no biggie.  However, sometimes you'd just like to do stuff from VS.NET. 

We looked the two obvious ways:

• Custom VS.NET Build Rules Add-In:  There's a lovely and simple sample from MSDN in VB.NET with source included.  It cleverly (and rightfully) stores it's config info in the .csproj as an extra XML section.
• Use a C++ MakeFile Project and get it to run last with Project Dependancies:  This was my first, gut reaction, backed up as at least value by Chris Sell's mention of it.  I like it since we wouldn't have to install anything assuming we already had C++ on the box. 

So, between a rock and a hard place, we'll use the Custom Add-In for a few months then upgrade and VS2003.  It's all good.

Win2K SP4 is up and out.  A quote from NTBUGTRAQ:

"Downloads, readmes, etc... all available, not limited to Premier customers, no "Confidentiality" clauses, not June 30th, no broken parts (hmm, have I missed anyone's claim?)"

Go get it...or better yet, get Windows 2003 Server.

This is as much for my reference as it is for the 8 people who are goodly enough to read my blog:

• July 7th - Seattle .NET Users Group - Loving ASP.NET
• Aug 20th/Sep 1st - TechEd Malaysia - Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
• Aug 20th/Sep 1st - TechEd Malaysia - Internationalizing ASP.NET Sites
• Aug 20th/Sep 1st - TechEd Malaysia - The Zen of .NET: Introspection...
• Sept 12th - ASPLive! - Internationalizing ASP.NET Sites [New!] 
• Oct 2nd - PADNUG Web Services SIG - How NOT to do Web Services [Tentative]
• Oct 14th - Cleveland Ohio .NET SIG - Zen and the Art of Web Services [Tentative]
• Jan 15th - NYC .NET Users Group - Title To Be Determined [Tentative]