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Question on the Australian DL: Could someone please tell me how i login as Administrator it says i am a Admionistrator, but when i try and do things that require Admin rights, I get a msg box saying i need to login as Admin? To Login as administrator...

Karsten wrote a great sample on getting a gadget working in Windows Presentation Foundation . Unfortunately if you are starting from scratch there are a lot of pieces needed to get this working ; so i thought i would rewrite his sample in VB -and supply...

Is the TFS Database(s) schema documented and how do I create new reports? The seven TFS databases created by Team foundation Server should not be used directly for reporting but rather the TFS Data Warehouse is created for this purpose. Team Foundation...

I just realized i had over 100 comments on my blog that i needed to approve/read. -oops sorry about that! In either case many of them were for me to post some of my fishing pictures.... Fair warning many of these photos are pretty big! ...

While at the recent Windows Vista Launch i had a bunch of questions on Team Foundation Server under a VM....Many of which dealt with performance which i immediately dumped on Dugie. Dugie is also known as Andrew Dugdell , the local VM guru, MVP and local...

One of my customers are using Power Builder to do their development and wanted to know about support for using Team Foundation Server Version Control for Powerbuilder. Unfortunately despite it working and Ed Hintz actively fixing powerbuilder bugs this...

In my previous post I mentioned a conference we are helping ACS and Object create an Architecture event called: Australian Architect Forum . One thing we would like to determine is what content Australian Architects are interested in. As i mentioned...

Solutions Architecture is clearly the hot topic right now. –Being one the most requested topics at TechEd, the Patterns and Practice event was also one of the year’s best events. Unfortunately the Patterns and Practice event team isn’t going to be able...

Good friend of mine Brian Randell builds alot of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server hands on labs and launch demos all of which run under Microsoft Virtual Server...He saw my email i sent to the development team: Microsoft Recomending AGAINST running...

Remember back when Compaq used to sell Ipaq's? Well i have one of the originals a 3650 complete with with an additional sleeve for accessing PCMIA cards. The battery is dead but the device still works like a champ...The question becomes: is this...

I just saw our Team Foundation Server MVP from Israel released another administration tool for Team Foundation Server -and it looks really good! TFS Permission Manager 1.0

Just had this question from a coworker: They need to render a word 2000 document on the server with no client side intervention. I have done this in the past using XSL:FO, but I'm sure that there is a better way. I have also found using a COM object...

For the past year we have been trying to become foster parents and it finally happened two weeks ago and man what an ordeal. This all came about when Pilar (my wife) indicated she was getting bored and would like another child…oops! I reminded her...

You may have noticed my webcasts have dropped off/stopped lately -it is because i don't have a Windows XP machine any more and unfortunatley the tool i have been using for creating web casts Windows Media Encoder doesn't work on the Vista RTM builds....

If you have been playing with Sparkle and wanted a way to bring in Flash files in XAML then today is your lucky day as Mike Swanson just released SWF2XAML . For download directions see: http://www.mikeswanson.com/SWF2XAML/

In the server planning document we state: Virtual PC Team Foundation Server servers will operate correctly on a Virtual PC or a virtual server. However, this configuration is not recommended for production environments. It can be used in evaluation...

A question came in from my blog post on Windows Media Encoder : I'm quite new into recording screenvideos. I am a teacher in denmark and would like to be able to create video tutorials (with sound) for my pupils and other teachers. Currently I am...

Dr Brown, Jason and Zsolt are keen to present at the user group! At this point their agenda is in the formatives stages but current thinking is: · State of the Gaming Market - Dr Ross Brown (15 minutes) · What is the state of the games industry...

In a recent meeting I was asked: I want to be able to report on what objects where changed since the last label I am pretty certain labels are NOT in the data warehouse. The easiest method would be to create a report using the TFsVersionControl...

Had a question about how to create an application magnifier and was amazed at how easy it was to get a prototype working! Depending on what you consider lines of code it is about 3 lines! Dim g As Graphics = Me .CreateGraphics() 'Get the Graphics...

I have a coworker who was trying to get impersonation working in ASP.NET and indicated despite setting the Web.config to impersonate: < identity impersonate = " true " userName = " Guss " password = " Password " /> and he indicated "IT" didnt...

One of the local government branches had some questions on Team Foundation Server and I thought others might benefit from the answers here is the first: 1. What version of Visual Studio is required to modify the process template? No specific version...

If you are having issues with your VSTS web test buttons being disabled it is very likely you are running under Windows Vista and -not forced Visual Studio to run in the Administrator context...To do this all you have to do is click on the Visual Studio...

Before heading down to Melbourne for the Ready Summit I managed to sneak out for quick trip Sunday. Rumor had it there were a couple of little black Marlin on the 50 meter line and Wahoo in close so Glen and myself put out some 18knot lures and started...

If you plan on going to TechEd in 2007 here on the Gold Coast and have views/requests for what the content should look like Andrew Coates is the man on point and waiting for your email: acoat@microsoft.com I just chatted with him and his first thoughts...