March 2008 - Posts
I get this question a lot, and I thought I'd post the stuff you need here. It's also part of the core documentation… Managing and Resetting Service Accounts and Passwords See Also Send Feedback Team Foundation Server includes several services and service
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Not sure how many people had issues with this, but it seems our webcast registration page was only showing new webcasts up to March 11th, so if you went to sign up for one more recently, you had no link with which to register... it's now fixed: This session
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This is nice.,.. a new set of VSTS/TFS VPC images, with the VSTS 2008 Hands-on labs is now live. The updated image expires December 2008, which gives folks a LOT of time to try/learn/test VSTS and TFS. As I mention on my webcasts , and in customer meetings,
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Some neat updates have been posted to the VSTS "Rosario" specifications. In particular, the three new ones: Codename “TFS Bug Submission Portal” Power Tool for Team Foundation Server 2008 Send Mail from TFS Core Linking Work Item Tracking Check them out
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Well, spring is coming like a lamb this year. Still have snow on the ground (STILL) and got another dusting last night. Familiar sounds are abound. For my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, it's been a story of too little, too late. They've been excellent for
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Jelle's tool looks wicked ... a great utility when managing regular builds and trying to ensure high quality, particularly in continuous integration scenarios... BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily
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For some reason, the list below (thanks Jonathan ) was eluding me when I was creating my "OpenInBlend" context menu for Visual Studio 2008. I post it here for posterity, as well as hoping others find it easier to locate than I did: public readonly static
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Well, it's a common request. You started out using the Trial edition of Team Foundation Server 2008, which goes 90 days, and you want to activate that version, so you call your reseller, purchase a copy of TFS. Now, you wait for your installation media
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So, I've been working on this YOUFirst stuff, and I'm constantly going back and forth between Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview , and I'm getting sick (lazy me) of going to the Visual Studio Tools menu to select my Open in Blend external tool entry.
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So my team has a great initiative, called a YOUFirst day, which is a day reserved for us to do whatever we want to do, without interruption, to better our professional selves.. Everyone in the world can have one if they want one, it's not that unique
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It's nice to see this app make the light of day. I saw it a few months ago. InfusionDev did a great job in building the original version of this app in WPF, and now it's been ported to Sliverlight 2 beta... It really does a great job in helping people
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This is indeed wicked cool! A constant challenge for developers is designing in and verifying accessibility for their applications. Check out the site,as part of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/accessibility Very cool stuff, including the Accessibility
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Well, the big one is over, our Toronto 'Heroes Happen {Here}' launch event with Kevin Turner and customers and partners, helping us launch Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008... It was a great event! Fresh from the launch, the
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Rational Eyes now has a Visual Studio Team System partner offering for hosted TFS services in North America! TeamDevCentral was launched at the Heros Happen Here event in Toronto. Until April 1 st the set up fee is waived for the Starter/Pilot package
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