James Manning's blog

This isn't really "new", just a reminder of a neat feature, especially for those of us used to doing something very similar. It works great on Nullable<T> too! using System; class Program { static void Main ( string [] args) {...

Thanks to Amit Agrawal, one of the PM's for Team Foundation, who provided this workaround for Beta3. This is useful for those that are hitting the 4MB default size limit for work item attachments. I confirmed this works nicely by trying to create a bug...

During some of our internal processes, we port sets of approved bugs over from one branch to another. Since we're dogfooding Team Foundation, the bugs are Team Foundation work item id's and we need the changesets associated with those. You can easily...

One situation that people may get into where the compiler error message may be confusing to them is when the default constructor (ctor) doesn't compile for a class. Since Whidbey has a bit of a confusing error message for this case (we have a bug for...

You may have read Jim 's excellent posts about policy creation ( part 1 , part 2 ) or seen check-in policies mentioned in Chris Menegay 's MSDN article on Team Foudation Version Control . Either way, check-in policies are a useful mechanism for running...

One of the recent-ish changes (an excellent one which we can thank CBrumme et al for) is that the CLR will now take those wacky cases where some code (usually C++, C# and VB couldn't do this) that throws an object that's not actually Exception or one...

As announced a couple of days ago by the legendary Eric Sink , Allerton is growing up and is now called Teamprise - go check out the Teamprise site including Eclipse accessing Visual Studio Team System ! If the project sounds familiar, it was also mentioned...