I can't be the only person who has been frustrated by the inflexible nature of Visual Studio solutions and projects.  So when Krzysztof asked for someone to write a program to convert vanilla .NET projects to Silverlight projects, I jumped at the chance.  Of course, I then proceeded to take four months to deliver what is, in all honesty, a fairly simple piece of code.  Anyway, it's finally checked into Castle Contrib at https://svn.castleproject.org/svn/castlecontrib/SolutionTransform/trunk/. Ironically, I've already blogged about the basic architecture, although the code is now a bit more complex than the braindead example I was running with at the...

I've got to admit, I've got my reservations about Boo.  There's the take-up question, which wasn't a big deal before the DLR came striding into town, but is much more important now that there are other ways to skin this particular cat.  Then there's the extensible syntax, which is one of the most powerful shotguns I've ever seen.  They've even helpfully set it up to point at your foot by default. Fact remains, I've just done some work for the Castle project that uses Boo for its DSL.  Again, I've gone for the "just get it working" approach, so...