Webparts and STSDEV

I'm pretty used to doing 2007 development with STSDev and I've gotten really comfortable with it. However, one of the things I haven't built yet, amazingly enough, is a webpart.

So, last week, I was trying to find a world clock webpart that would properly observe DST where applicable. Amazingly, only one I was able to find does, but it sources external Flash content as part of its rendering. Instead, I decided to get the CKS release of the Bamboo World Clock and Weather webpart and put proper DST support within.

The code itself is...amusing to say the least. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was intentional to have the main namespace "CKS.Bamboo.WorldCockAndWeather".

At any rate, the CKS project makes a solution, but it's not feature-activated. STSDev has support for webpart-based projects, but crashes when parsing ClassResources. So, in my infinite wisdom OCD, I'm moving the Bamboo code into a STSDev project, and now I find myself modifying the source of STSDev to incorporate support for copying ClassResources into the Manifest, and proper storage of the data within the DDF.

2010 can't come soon enough.