"Database refactoring, [..] this is one area that they Ruby crowd has gotten in right (not saying that they haven't got other things right), but with Migrations, it is amazingly easy to create objects in your database and then easily version your database."

Today I had to migrate a Silverlight Alpha 1.1 project to Silverlight 2 beta 1 for a client. As we had to expect there are a lot of changes! First thing to notice: after installing Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 you won't be able to open your Silverlight 1.1 projects in VS2008, yo...

"Now this is a stroke of genius. If you want people to consider making their .NET applications work on Mono, give them a tool that informs them ahead of time how much trouble (or how easy) it will be to migrate to Mono."