You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the new DLL into the CAB file? Wouldn't it surprise...
OK - so I'm a bit irritated, but this is a great case of Microsoft's dev teams doing something which contradicts documentation and expected behavior. Here is the story, including the business case which this bug stomps all over. Doug Ware (formerly of Magenic fame and now an independent SharePoint consultant...
Jim Wooley posted about how he informed me that this great HTTP analyzer tool called Fiddler existed. This let me look into my code's exceptions to figure out what was happening. He posted about the existance of the tool and how it's a great thing. I thought I should post my specific example, what it...