Technical Weblog of Eric Charran

Here is a great article on how to upgrade your (most likely expiring) trial editions of TFS to the full production editions. You don't need to reinstall. Here is the link: http://msdn2.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404852.aspx Also, here is a great blog...

The MOSS 2007 Beta does not start the Windows SharePoint Services Administration Service. Thus, when you successfully configure your MOSS 2007 installation and then attempt to create a web application, you get the "Thread was begin aborted" error message...

When an web services is secured with Windows Authentication and you need to call it as a specific user or another account on the domain, this article explains how to do it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;813834 You can either...

The Visual Studio for Database Professionals is live. In case you haven't heard, its a Visual Studio product that integrates into existing Visual Studio installations (or installs the base Visual Studio Shell) and allows for the full management of database...

When an web services is secured with Windows Authentication and you need to call it as a specific user or another account on the domain, this article explains how to do it. http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;... You can either set the proxy...

Buck Hodges wrote an excellent entry on how to enable check-in on behalf of another user. This feature is useful based on the scenarios he defined in his post. If you have a continuous integration process or other automated process that needs to check...

I imagine you'll be seeing a ton of these messages around the internet for folks using Community Server. Temporary Post Used For Style Detection (361445f1-fa31-4bbe-b74b-0d20c41051c0) The Windows Live Writer doesn't exactly integrate 100% yet, so what...

I'm writing this weblog post from Windows Live Writer, a new web logging tool from Microsoft's Live division. Currently, I've configured it for my http://charranweb.spaces.live.com account as well as my msdn blog. This is great. Many of the tools out...

If the battleground for VSS vs. TFS will be fought anywhere it will be on this issue. As with any paradigm shift and change in the way things are done, it will be a challenge. Some will agree/like the change while others will despise it. A savvy champion...

As many of you Tablet M200 owners know you can't really install a new OS on the M200 because it doesn't have support for a built-in optical drive. While you can purchase an optoical drive from Toshiba (costly) or another USB optical drive, I just couldn...

I'm now officially a VSTS Extended Ranger. The ranger program at Microsoft is a team of highly trained experts usually within a specified area of technology or product. In this case, based on my TFS and Visual Studio experiences, I've been included in...

Issue: When building a ClickOnce application using Team Foundation Build Services, the goal is to modify the details contained within the .application deployment manifest file to conform to desired settings segregated by build type. This would allow...

In my travels and implementation paths for implementing Team Foundation Server and making it coexist or migrate from Visual Source Safe, there have been some significant challenges in educating clients about the change, specifically developers who are...

The following link goes to an msdn2 article which outlines the order of target executions that the TeamBuild service uses when executing its core targets via MSBuild. These are VERY hand to know in case that you want to supply any custom tasks based on...