I'll be OOF next week for reasons that Scrooge, Santa, and Sephardic Jews everywhere can understand. First, I have more vacation days than I'm allowed to roll over into 2004. Nobody likes to lose vacation days, right? Second, it's Christmas (and Hannukah...

In a comment to my most recent post , Scott asks, “ what is the proper way to remove an item from source control? “ You won't find an answer to this question in the Visual Studio .NET documentation (vers 2002 or 2003) but you will in VS...

The following question was raised on an aspadvice (product-vsnet) list this morning: “Hey there, I moved a solution over from one dev box to another. The old box was connected to source control, however, the new one is not. Whenever I open up...

I know that Google rocks. I have the toolbar . I'm a card-carrying member of the Google API fan club. I hound their employees for autographs during their annual company SkiFest at Northstar-at-Tahoe. But I've often wondered when and how Google might someday...

Develop a disciplined approach to ASP.NET Web project management: Using Visual SourceSafe for ASP.NET—Start to Finish by Paul Sheriff and Michael Krasowski Web Projects and Source Control Integration in Visual Studio .NET by Yours Truly and...

One of the PMs on my team emailed this to me today: “ Feedster is a search engine for weblogs, as you probably already know. What you might not have noticed is that after performing a search, you can grab an RSS feed to your search query (there...

pointer to my new blog at http://weblogs.asp.net...

Hi there. I'm Korby Parnell, a programmer/writer on the Visual Studio and Visual SourceSafe team at Microsoft and an émigré from blogs.gotdotnet.com. That's right, I work for a very, very small and not so hard corporation. When I'm not writing...

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