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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:50 AM

Learning Team System

I've had a lot of requests for training resources. Visual Studio Team System is a huge product so I summarized my favorites on the " Learning Team System " page. As new content becomes available and I answer more requests, I will add to that page. Thank
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Monday, December 15, 2008 3:47 PM

Securing Source Code

Second time this question came up: How to protect source code from theft by developers during software development. My first reaction is a blunt "you can't" - they wrote it so it is in their heads already. And anyway, if you could give the developer amnesia,
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:30 AM

Afrikaans

Here's an opportunity to spice up Windows Vista: the Windows Vista "Afrikaans TaalOppervlakPak", or in English: Windows Vista "Afrikaans" Language Interface Pack (LIP). LIPs are also available for Xhosa, Zulu and Sesotho . Speaking of Africa, here's a
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:35 AM

World's Largest TFS Deployment?

I have not heard of any customer going bigger than this: November 2008 Growth Totals Unique Active Users +170 15,308 Total Active Users +377 17,388 Projects +125 2,749 Work Items +167,598 3,050,512 Source Code Files +2,441,418 47,418,877 Total Builds
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Monday, December 08, 2008 4:27 PM

SqlDependency aka Query Notification

From a question the other day I dug up an example I whipped up for a class back in Swindon, England. A BizTalk class of all things. The question: Is there an alternative to polling databases for changes to keep a user interface up to date? Yes: Query
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Attachment(s): CacheDemoWithQueryNotification.zip
Sunday, December 07, 2008 1:01 PM

Delegates & Events

The topic of Delegates and Events came up on Thursday and I made up an example on the spot which I thought rather appropriate and fun besides. We started with "What is a Delegate" by declaring a delegate and invoking a method through it. The Array.FindAll
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 4:47 PM

HDD versus SSD

On my return from Zambia there should be a new laptop waiting for me at work: and I saw the option is available to go for an flash-based disk instead of a mechanical (platter & head) traditional hard disk. I've read a bit about that idea and know
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:30 PM

We were on a break!

Actually, I am on a break right now: this post brought to you from Lusaka, Zambia. My apologies for not getting back to the numerous emails and contacts via the blog since the Road Show events - will do in December! I'm back on the job from the 14th and
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