January 2008 - Posts
An updated binary version of the TFS Admin tool (v 1.3) has been released to the project site on CodePlex . This version of the tool supports TFS 2008 and WSS 3.0. It can be used to help manage user and permission settings across the TFS, SharePoint and
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Technorati tags: MSDN Events , IIS 7.0 , ASP.NET JANUARY - FEBRUARY EVENTS Check out the latest coding solutions with like-minded developers at MSDN Events. Witness the evolution of IIS and see why IIS7 is our most extensible, manageable and secure Web
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Session 1: How Hackers Hack ... and How to Stop Them Your website is under attack. Constantly. But do you know how it is being attacked? More and more attackers today are attacking applications ... code issues in your web site ... rather than infrastructure
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The next session of the Chicago VSTS Users Group will be on February 20, 2008 starting at 6 PM. This time we're in the city at Microsoft's Chicago office: 77 W Wacker Drive, Suite 2300. We'll have pizza starting at 5:30, and there will be some giveaways
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I usually only post about TFS and other cool techie topics. But this week was a doozie! Wow, so this past weekend two friends of mine got married, and most of our close friends were in the wedding party or in attendance. By Monday, 15 of these people
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Take a test drive Did you know that there is a HUGE product launch coming soon! That's right, this event will cover SQL Server 2008, Windows Longhorn and Visual Studio 2008. Now the confusing part is what is actually available? Well, Visual Studio 2008,
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Not sure why I waited this long to share this awesome techie book site with everyone, but they have the deepest discounts on new books I have seen. Found this place when I was back at NIU, have used them almost exclusively ever since. 45% - 50% of MSPress
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First Look: Top to Bottom of What's “Nu” in MS '08 Technology! Come join Neudesic for a day OUT of the office, learning about the newest Microsoft technologies and implementation strategies. Co-sponsored by Neudesic, Microsoft, Insight and IMG, NuCon
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So I have had at least a half dozen customers ask about this recently, and found a great article on the Code Analysis Team blog . Yoinked from their post ... Technorati Tags: Code Metrics , Check-in Policy , TFS 2008 Can a check-in policy be defined based
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Well, not so new anymore but you may have missed the original announcement like I did. Download the installs and get the details of "What's New" here: TFS 2008 Power Tools: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx Team Foundation Server
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It can be a bit overwhelming keeping track of all of the various tools and widgets that have been developed for TFS. Even more so if you want to be able to figure out which ones are the most popular or have the most community support. Wouldn't it be great
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IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Getting the Right Build Management Process in Place (Level 200) Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Using KPIs to Streamline Development (Level
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Paul Hacker started a new monthly Team Foundation Server newsletter back in December that focuses on a new topic each month, as well as solicits articles from area experts. He has now published his January 2008 Edition - focusing on TFS Build. You'll
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Totally yoinked this from Jim Blizzards email signature. I have already posted some of these over the last 18 months, but hey, you obviously have nothing better to do right now so maybe they are new to you.. There were some really interesting case studies
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I am not particularly endorsing one partner product over another, I just thought this was a really cool way to take advantage of 2 technologies used VERY heavily today in project development in conjunction with Team Foundation Server. I consistently get
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My evangelist buddies kicked off their first listener contest on The Thirsty Developer podcast this week. Listen in and you could win a custom Thirsty Developer Zune80 from Zune Originals . While you’re over there, be sure to subscribe to the podcast
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For any of my buddies in the great White North, we have an event for you. At the January 2008 Wisconsin .NET User Group meeting, I will be conducting a high level overview of all the new technologies included with this triple release, and demo-ing some
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Yoinked from Brian Randell's blog entry : For those of you that want to try out Visual Studio Team System 2008 including Team Foundation Server, without having to go through the process of installing the product, we have recently released two VPC images
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This Week's Featured Videos How Do I: Use the TF Destroy Command in Visual Studio Team System 2008? In this how-to video, we will look at using the TF Destroy command, found in Visual Studio Team System 2008 to permanently delete artifacts out of Team
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Happy Holidays and welcome back! I wanted to kick off the new year with an invite to the next Chicago VSTS User Group Meeting. We will be covering “What’s New in VSTS 2008”. Here are the details: The next session of the Chicago VSTS Users Group will be
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