This is the second of the three projects for which I am currently the dev lead and which are on the verge of commencing as VSTS Rangers Projects. Included in this post is the motivation, the vision and the objective of the project, whereby I am more than...

I have been looking at some of the innovations coming from C# 4, whereby the following have caught my eye. These are “old news” to C++ developers for example, but definitely “new news” for C# 2 and 3 developers q;-) Default and Named Parameters Finally...

This is the first of the three projects for which I am currently the dev lead and which are on the verge of commencing as VSTS Rangers Projects. Included in this post is the motivation and the vision of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss...

James is heading up this exciting project. Included in this post is the news and the vision of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss more details with you if needed. For the sake of text re-use, all text indicated in italic has been copy...

Based on discussions with community leads and especially Team System Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs), the transparency of current and new VSTS Rangers projects is very important. Firstly it is important for you to know what is out there and...

Dave is scheduling another interesting event in Port Elizabeth … if you are in that region, make sure to pencil in this event in your calendar! Event Information Date: 24 March 2009 Time: 15:30 (3:30pm) – approx. 18:30 (6:30pm) Where: Newton...

It is T+22 … in other words is was 22 days ago when my family and I, with the exception of our oldest son Alexander, arrived in Vancouver Canada, where I joined Bijan’s team as a VSTS Core Ranger. As mentioned in the heading the dust is...

Visual SDLC Those who know me and especially those that have worked with me on projects will know that I visualise everything and that unless Willy has a picture, he is confused, grumpy and constantly scribbling in his notebook. Back in the late 90’s...

Probably the best investment I have made is to migrate from Virtual PC and Virtual Server to Hyper-V. Although I have not resolved all the quirks … waiting for resolution posts from our Server Dude at  … such as being able to easily exchange data...

Great news has just dropped into my mailbox! Text in italic was cut+pasted from the email to promote text re-use :) In the last couple of days, Rangers shipped important guidance packages for MOSS TFS development. For maximum reach, we have simultaneously...

Thanks to “Chuck”, who did a “sterling” job at the MVP Global Summit to deliver another exceptional event to the rocking Team System MVPs, we have this picture taken after the last marathon session on Wednesday: Chuck (shown on the left), should have...

This post is simply a collection of the various posts that covers VSTS Rangers projects. Last update posted on: 26 July 2009. Released Projects covered on this blog to date   … these are released projects which have been covered on this blog, click...

Continued from SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … testing, the moment of truth (part 8 of many) . I have always been a very practical person, focusing on the task at hand out of intuition, experience and principles that my mentors pounded into me...

Continued from SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … designing the blueprint (part 7 of many) . Overview Testing is the big unknown, often ignored world that intends to uncover design and construction flaws in a solution. What should be obvious, is...

Here are a few snapshots I took during the summit … sorry for the delay. Enjoy the memories: A few pictures of the South-African delegation View Full Album A few pictures of the “rocking” VSTS MVP delegation View Full Album Check this rocking star from...

I am busy following the blog posts of my colleague Zayd, whereby he has posted the feedback of day 1 and day 2 of the Rhodes university academia program. It is a program I was involved in back in South-Africa and an initiative which brings state of the...

The Seattle landmark for celebrating popular music was the meeting place of the MVPs tonight. Oh how I wish I had my USB camera cable with me, but you will have to wait until Thursday 1AM, when I return to Vancouver, for me to publish pictures of our...

We completed the VSTS Ranger session at the summit today … probably the most daunting session of my life to date, as I knew who was sitting on the other side of the line (Team System Microsoft Most Valued Professionals – MVP), a side I used to sit in...

Jeff gave a great start to the day in his opening session, during which the following awards were handed out: Team System Web Access Translation Project Ognjen Bajic, Ramon Durães, Igor Abade, Cengiz Han, Coskun Sunali, Okan Tekeli, Gert Christiansen...

I have the fortune of being involved with the testing of the latest bits for the Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 installations, getting an opportunity to comment on the process and documenting issues that I have collated during my testing of the various...

As reported in http://blogs.msdn.com/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2009/02/19/tla-why-why-why.aspx I, for one, am battling with acronyms and TLAs (three lettered acronyms). Thanks to a colleague who pointed me to a site within Microsoft I finally have a...

Continued from SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … analyzing the battle ahead (part 6 of many) . Overview During the previous phase, analysis, we communicated, we documented and we visualised. The meetings, the exploration, the observations, the surveys...

The MVP Global Summit 2009 is imminent and we hope to see a lot of the 60 known Team System MVP faces at the summit this year: … and more for which I could unfortunately find no mug shot. For more details of any of these exceptional gentlemen or “rocking...

A really interesting chat has just been posted on Radio TFS covering Agility , with a special guest Tommy Norman. Go to http://www.radiotfs.com/default.aspx and listen to the recorded session or synchronise with your Zune q;-) Radio TFS is a initiative...

Are you aware of DevDays 2009 in South-Africa? There is little time left for registration and to be part of an exceptional panel of speakers, including two Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and Willie, the infamous community lead speaker. With...