A SourceSafe shadow folder is a UNC share* in which VSS maintains a current copy of the latest database version of every file in a SourceSafe project and all of its subprojects. When you or a teammate check in changes to a source-controlled file whose...

If you read my weblog on occasion, you may have noticed that I have steadfastly avoided the blogger clique: the Ruby's , the Winers , the Scobles . I have not taken a position on the RSS wars (unless you count linking to Don Box but not Sam or Dave...

It's true. Craig is now a blogger. Reader Chris Monachan recently asked in a comment to one of my posts, "...does the .NET IDE team have anyone like Raymond Chen, that perhaps reports on the historical reasons for doing stuff in the .NET IDE in their...

Last Friday, I posted a procedure for renaming source-controlled items in VS.NET that fails to mention one big gotcha: If you rename a file using Visual Studio .NET's Rename command, you lose its history--or at least the continuity of such--for the...

In response to my recent post, What is a Source Control Binding ?, reader Keith Hill writes, " A bit OT but do you know why VS.NET SCCI can't handle renaming projects once they are checked into a SCM system (ClearCase) is what I am using)? (.....

Raymond comes through again with a description of the difference between gigabytes and gibibytes . I wonder if Paul Allen refers to his boat as a megayacht or as a mebiyacht. I also wonder if there's a different latin prefix for powers of three, four...

I played racquetball yesterday against a Web developer who sometimes works as a vendor at Microsoft (a V-Dash in Microspeak). After he beat me soundly in three straight games, he asked me what a "programmer/writer" does on a daily basis. He had seen...

MSBuild is the [extensible, scalable, transparent] next generation build engine and platform for Visual Studio .NET. Many of our sharpest PMs, developers, testers, and yes, even writers, are feverishly working on this project. A number of folks with...

I received this incredibly interesting seminar invitation this morning. ABSTRACT: Even in busy online communities usually only a small fraction of members post messages. Why do so many people prefer to read and not contribute? In a survey ...

I'm amazed by how often I see this question on the newsgroups and listservers. faQ: How can I edit a file that another user has checked out? A: Allow Multiple Checkouts Iin VSS Administrator: Tools|Options|General|"Allow Mulitiple Checkouts". The...

Wunderkammer--a word that appears in the title of my blog--is a German word that means "wonder cabinet". I love this word, which so accurately and poetically describes the place, be it virtual or physical, where each of us stores the strange stuff...

K-Links are dynamically generated hrefs in HTML Help 2.x help topics. Currently, my division (Visual Studio + the .NET Frameworks) uses them in a limited capacity. I would like to change that. For Visual Studio .NET 2002 (and 2003), I implemented...

Note to Self: Urs Müller points to Web Data Admin , an ASP.NET application that supports remote SQL Server database administration (including database creation).

It's true and it's official: I have a new "job". Yes, I do have a life outside Microsoft. Requisite Disclaimer: the ideas and views expressed in this post are mine and mine alone. A couple of months ago, I applied for a volunteer position on...

The Share feature in Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) is neither as intuitive or as versatile as it is in Visual SourceSafe Explorer. To avoid confusion, I think of it this way: " Share " in VS.NET == Add a shared copy of a file from the VSS database...

No, I am not an Object Oriented Fool that has changed his ways. I am an FTE who is no longer OOF. In MicroSpeak, OOF is 'out of facility' and FTE is 'fulltime employee'. I was on vacation last week but now I'm back. During my vacation, I stayed as...