The TFS October Power tool pack is released!! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Hear all about it here. Lots of great new functionality for everyone on the team. Willy also has a great post with lots of details here. Run for it. Download it here Cheers, ET Technorati Tags: VSTS 2008 ... The TFS October Power tool pack is released!! 0 0 1
TFS Data Manager Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Data ManagerThis looks like a fantastic product that will let you do pretty much everything that has been missing from TFS. You can cop / clone projects across servers. you get disaster ... TFS Data Manager 0 0 2
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power ToolsThere is a new release of the Power Tools for team system. As an MVP I was involved in the trial that started early this month, ... Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools 0 0 0
TFS Source Control Explorer -no commands shown Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We needed to setup TFS for a new user and he had a problem: When open TFS Source Control Explorer , he can see folders, but was unable to run any commands , e.g Get Latest. Trying to find a reason, we ... TFS Source Control Explorer -no commands shown 0 0 0
MSDN July: Text Services Framework Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 Most of what I do with speech recognition centers around very limited grammars, designed to improve recognition accuracy in noisy environments. We also have a requirement to support XP, since most of our ... MSDN July: Text Services Framework 0 0 0
Twin Cities Developers Guild Meeting - November 11 TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Where: New Horizons (4510 West 77th St. Edina, MN 55435) When: Tuesday, November 11th at 6:00 PM Website: www.twincitiesdevelopersgui... Session: Learn about how the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), ... Twin Cities Developers Guild Meeting - November 11 0 0 0
TFS Sticky Buddy 2.0 development started… Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Sticky Buddy 2.0 development started…Lets just say that it will be a while in development. I am trying to implement the Composite Application blocks for WPF from Microsoft in an attempt ... TFS Sticky Buddy 2.0 development started… 0 0 0
Chippewa Valley Code Camp 2008 Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 The Chippewa Valley .NET Users Group is holding their first Code Camp on Nov. 8th, 2008 in Eau Claire, WI. I’m one of the presenters, and I'll be talking about XNA. I think it's pretty neat how Doug Rhoten ... Chippewa Valley Code Camp 2008 0 0 0
TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0I will be working on some new features to the Sticky Buddy application. Improvements in the interface, along with a more modular structure and more diagram offering are ... TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0 0 0 1
Article on Subsystem branching terje, January 1, 0001 I did an article on Subsystem branching (http://geekswithblogs.net/... as a result of a post on the Microsoft forums regarding this. Further, at ... Article on Subsystem branching 0 0 0
#PDC08 keynote (day 2, part 3) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Note: The Wireless network at the keynote failed miserably, so this will be posted with a delay. Scott Guthrie about tools and app development New APIs for multitouch and other Windows 7 API. Note: Lots ... #PDC08 keynote (day 2, part 3) 0 0 0
Transactional NTFS and Free Disk Space Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 Andrew recently watched my screencasts and had some great questions that came up around how Transactional NTFS behaves with the file system. So, I figured I would answer them here. So, if you want to see ... Transactional NTFS and Free Disk Space 0 0 0
Developer, Meet Server - Transactional NTFS and WCF Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 I recently posted the second screencast in my new "Developer, Meet Server" screencast series. This latest screencast covers using Transactional NTFS in a service-oriented environment via WCF. Enjoy ... Developer, Meet Server - Transactional NTFS and WCF 0 0 0
Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 James Conard announces over on his blog that our team has just released the Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit for Beta 3. Mosey on over and check it out. You can find resources on everything from ... Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit 0 0 0
How I'm becoming a better developer Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 Well, nearly a month after George's throw-down (and Chris's follow up), here I am posting my list of how I plan on becoming a better developer. Most of the focus on this list is around technology internals ... How I'm becoming a better developer 0 0 0
Discoveries of the day Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 Well, another day, more work done, more lessons learned, and some new and exciting discoveries and announcements made as well. First of all, Soma announced on his blog today that F# is becoming an "official" ... Discoveries of the day 0 0 0
Tech Ed Developer (Europe) Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 Howdy all, I will be at Tech Ed Developer this week doing several things. First of all, I will be giving two talks: the first on Application Compatibility in Windows Server 2008 outlining the top issues ... Tech Ed Developer (Europe) 0 0 0
Managed and Native Interop - C# or C++/CLI? Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 This debate came up recently on my trip to Tech Ed Developer in Barcelona. If I am having to write interop code, should I use C# and p/invoke, or should I use C++/CLI? I had some very smart people like ... Managed and Native Interop - C# or C++/CLI? 0 0 1
TxF Managed Wrapper on Code Gallery Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 Hello, everybody, I have released the first version of a rudimentary managed wrapper around Transactional NTFS to Code Gallery on MSDN: http://code.msdn.microsoft.... The wrapper in its current ... TxF Managed Wrapper on Code Gallery 0 0 0
London MSDN road rerun VS 2008 SP1 marocanu2001, January 1, 0001 Here are the things that caught my attention in today's MSDN briefing: A. Silverlight 2.0 1. You can use IsolatedStorageFile and IsolatedStorageSettings for storing data on the client machine, but they ... London MSDN road rerun VS 2008 SP1 0 0 0
Branch Compare…A Life saver Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Branch Compare…A Life saverIn my recent troubles with branching and merging I found (it was not lost, I just did not know about it) a fantastic tool, that has actually been part of the power ... Branch Compare…A Life saver 0 0 1
MSBuild and Business Intelligence Packages, Ahhhhhh! Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: MSBuild and Business Intelligence Packages, Ahhhhhh!I have been trying to get a handle on doing an automated build of our Business Intelligence solutions and I am always running into problems ... MSBuild and Business Intelligence Packages, Ahhhhhh! 0 0 0
Hosted TFS, and cheap….from Phase2 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Hosted TFS, and cheap….from Phase2 I received a wee email from Kevin Doherty the CEO at Phase2. These guys host lots of useful things and the had obviously decided to host TFS as part of their ... Hosted TFS, and cheap….from Phase2 0 0 5
NINE Questions with Kirstin Juhl Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 I've known Kirstin pretty much since she came to Magenic, and she's one of the smartest (and most energetic) people I know. Shortly after joining our team, she was off and running and hasn't slowed down ... NINE Questions with Kirstin Juhl 0 0 0
Branch madness! Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Branch madness!I know that I have not been posting in a while, and I hope to remedy that. I have been working on getting our internal team up to speed on using TFS as a full ALM tool and not ... Branch madness! 0 0 0
TFS Usage Statistics Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Usage StatisticsStats on out TFS Instance. Not much but growing. Users Recent users: 18 Users with assigned work items: 27 Version control users: 36 Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ... TFS Usage Statistics 0 0 2
Minor "Gotcha!" TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition Lou Vega, January 1, 0001 After getting used to the full blown version of TFS (first 2005, and then 2008) I ended up doing an install of TFS Workgroup Edition to play around with to see if it would work for some smaller home projects. ... Minor "Gotcha!" TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition 0 0 2
Sharing ReSharper settings in your team Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 I find it important to have a common development environment in our team. This allows us to easily switch seats during the sprints. ReSharper has a lot of customizable features, and we just figured out ... Sharing ReSharper settings in your team 0 0 3
From Zero to Continuous Integration Presentation: Tulsa TechFest ... Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Thanks to all who made it through my talk on Continuous Integration, as it was pretty dry with lots of page refreshing to show changes as we were building. I am thinking this presentation isn't geared ... From Zero to Continuous Integration Presentation: Tulsa TechFest ... 0 0 5
How to remove TFS workspaces Tim Huffam, January 1, 0001 This will actually remove the your workspaces - unlike the VS/TFS Source Control Explorer which simply does not display them - duh! From the VS command prompt: tf workspaces /remove:* ... How to remove TFS workspaces 0 0 4
TortoiseTFS? Greg Zarkis, January 1, 0001 Not really, but hopefully just as cool. Brian Harry has posted a teaser about the upcoming "Team Foundation Server Power Tools - October '08 Release", of which includes a Windows shell extension to TFS. ... TortoiseTFS? 0 0 0
Matching TFS build labels with custom build number Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 So I’ve been trying to do some custom build numbering for my Team Build project and was confronted with a lot of let’s say “uninformation” and some great information also. I really didn’t want to create ... Matching TFS build labels with custom build number 0 0 8
Visual Studio Team Development Edition and Visual Studio Team Dat... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 In case you didn’t know, as part of the slew of information that Microsoft in this week one very cool announcement was made. VSTDE and VSTDBE are now both available to MSDN subscriber that have one of ... Visual Studio Team Development Edition and Visual Studio Team Dat... 0 0 0
BizTalk Server 2009 – What’s new Jay Kinker, January 1, 0001 BizTalk Server 2006 R3 is now renamed to BizTalk Server 2009. BTS2006 R3 had considerable new features due to which Microsoft decided to make it as a major release and renamed it to BizTalk Server 2009. ... BizTalk Server 2009 – What’s new 0 0 2
Upcoming TFS power tools… This is MAJOR!! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Have a look at Brian Harry’s blog entry on the next generation power tools probably available end of October… A new team menu with presence, and team based tasks… A new way to download project related ... Upcoming TFS power tools… This is MAJOR!! 0 0 0
TFS Error: The item does not exist at the specified version ftom, January 1, 0001 After moving a branch from one TFS server to another I got the error: "The item \$TFSProject\mylocation\myf... does not exist at the specified version". First I thought the Check in was buggy and went ... TFS Error: The item does not exist at the specified version 0 0 1
Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 microsoftian, January 1, 0001 Day after tomorrow, I am about to talk about Oslo at my company internal meeting. Now, I have something to add to that session. Microsoft, Today announced Visual Studio 10 (Rosario) and .NET framework ... Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 0 0 0
When to create a new TFS project or reuse an existing one ftom, January 1, 0001 I am sorry this is not a C# blog today. I am still in TFS land :-) Recently I was talking to different people about when to create a new TFS project or reuse an existing one. Here is what I got out of ... When to create a new TFS project or reuse an existing one 0 0 0
My experience with upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I can describe my feeling of mgration from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 in one word-NIGHTMARE. Summary of recommendations. 1.Create combined TFS 2008+SP1 setup as described in http://www.woodwardweb.com/... ... My experience with upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 0 0 0
MSDN Events - Twin Cities TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Date: October 28 Join MSDN Events for the latest tips, tools and technical information you need to build powerful applications and engaging user experiences. We’ll show you how SQL Server 2008 delivers ... MSDN Events - Twin Cities 0 0 0
Hey. mpollack, January 1, 0001 I felt with the amount of time I've had this, I should actually make use of this blog. My name's Max. I live around Philly and I write VB.net and C# at a non-consumer-oriented software shop around King ... Hey. 0 0 0
TFS Build Server 2005 with 2008 Solutions Jonathan Dickinson, January 1, 0001 I am currently RNDing Continuous Integration for our build process, as well as automating certain build processes that we use throughout the company. One issue that I found is that TFS Build Server 2005 ... TFS Build Server 2005 with 2008 Solutions 0 0 1
VSTS - Unable to connect to the specified SQL Server Reporting Se... Jay Kinker, January 1, 0001 Error: Unable to connect to the specified SQL Server Reporting Services on <MachineName> I got this error while creating new team project There can be multiple reasons for this error. Here is what ... VSTS - Unable to connect to the specified SQL Server Reporting Se... 0 0 2
ASP.NET Training Videos for Team Foundation Server okcodemonkey, January 1, 0001 I just found these videos on ASP.NET for Team Foundation Server. I find that many developers new to .NET could learn a lot from these videos. Almost any developer could learn something or two from at least ... ASP.NET Training Videos for Team Foundation Server 0 0 2
Working from a Mobile again! Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Working from a Mobile again!As I am traveling today and I am not taking a laptop, I want to be able to do a little personal work from my mobile.. What I would realy like is to be able to monitor ... Working from a Mobile again! 0 0 0
BizTalk Server 2009 Announced Charles Young, January 1, 0001 Microsoft announced BizTalk Server 2009 today, and gave the green light to talking about the new version. It’s due for release in the first half of next year, and is shaping up nicely. Microsoft is casting ... BizTalk Server 2009 Announced 0 0 7
Using Beyond Compare in Visual Studio 2008/Team Foundation Server David Williams, January 1, 0001 If you have ever used Beyond Compare from Scooter software, I don't have to tell you this is a great directory/file comparison tool, especially for the price (Single licenses are listed at $30). If you ... Using Beyond Compare in Visual Studio 2008/Team Foundation Server 0 0 1
TFS Code Security Jason Coyne, January 1, 0001 My company recently had a number of offshore contractors leave the company, to a direct competitor, possibly taking a decent amount of source code with them. This has caused the company leadership to be ... TFS Code Security 0 0 2
TFS Sticky Buddy Update Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Sticky Buddy UpdateThe Sticky Buddy has been updated to fix the following problems: Votes ID Title 2 2598 Application has stopped responding" when Logging into CodePlex and a Domain is not ... TFS Sticky Buddy Update 0 0 0
Delete / Remove TFS Work Item Type Juan Ignacio Gelos, January 1, 0001 This functionality was added to TFS 2008, and you need the Power Tools to do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... DestroyWITD Command Use the destroywitd command to destroy a work ... Delete / Remove TFS Work Item Type 0 0 0