Here is what I am running on my Tablet M4: Office 2007 Beta 2 Office OneNote 2007 Beta Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 Windows Desktop Search Beta (Compatible with Office 2007, but with no UI of its own)...

This article describes how to have TFS's build functionality accomodate and build setup and deploy projects. The idea is to install Visual Studio on the build server and compile the setup/deploy project from the command line using devenv.exe. This...

The following link goes to an excellent article which describes how to create a Team Foundation Server automated build using a batch file that can be leveraged for any project. The idea is to use this batch file and then schedule it using the Scheduled...

When calling a secured web service it is important to code the application to explicitly pass the credentials to the web service. When calling a web service, the default communication is security context-less. In other words, the application assumes that...

Here are some instructions on how to configure an IIS Application Pool to run as a domain account. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/76be66e2-1db1-432e-95be-14ff59c2ec75.mspx?mfr=true The gist is to ensure...

This post is for my own reference as many of you know that you can download MSDN magazine articles in .chm format. It’s pretty handy because I can now send them to my mobile device and read about .NET on the go!

This weblog entry is a test post as well as an announcement to indicate that I am blogging from Word 2007. No longer do I have to log into the control panel of community server to write blogs. I can now use Word 2007 to blog directly to community server...

A .vsmdi file is a meta data file related to a solution that contains information about any tests within the project. Using the Test Manager you you can create a Test List. A Test List is a collection Unit/Web tests that can be logically grouped...

The link below goes to a great article on how to enable Continuous Integration (triggering a build process whenever a checkin happens) with Team Foundation Server. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/TeamSystem/default.aspx

This is an excellent article on how to extend the build capabilities of Team Foundation Server to include custom tasks to be added after the build process runs. As you know, TFS Build implements MSBuild. Since MSBuild is a robust utility to compile .NET...