June 2005 - Posts
Let's hear it for the little non-admin wiki that could: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1830637,00.asp
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There is an error message (in Beta 2, hopefully fixed by release) that I have come to dread that appears when first attempting to connect to a TFS server, it looks something like this: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server : [machinename] Team
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Some starting points for sharpening the security saw: Threat Modeling (MSDN) http://Channel9.Msdn.Com/Security (MSDN/Channel9/PAG security wiki)
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Here's a good starting point for ramping up on ASP.NET 2.0: http://beta.asp.net/QUICKSTART/aspnet/
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A great resource for beefing up knowledge on what the load test threshold values mean: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenet.asp
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If you are getting a permissions related exception from the Team Project Creation Wizard even though you have added the user to the Team Foundation Administrators group, make sure the the user is also a Content Manager in Reporting Services. This happened
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The VSTS version control system has the concept of "binding" and "unbinding" with visual studio solutions that is referenced frequently in error messages that I've come across while testing - but since IMO it's hard to understand the error messages without
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In the early phases of a project with lots of dependencies, I sometimes hit a case where bugs blocking automation have automatable workarounds but you don't want to just automate the workarounds and then forget to drive to get the underlying bug fixed.
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Ian has posted an index of useful team blog profiler articles, let us know what we're missing: http://blogs.msdn.com/ianhu/archive/2005/06/09/427327.aspx
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Congratulations Ian - I can hardly believe it's been a year! http://blogs.msdn.com/ianhu/archive/2005/06/08/426743.aspx
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Better Software carrying a feature article on performance testing: http://www.stickyminds.com/BetterSoftware/magazine.asp?fn=cifea
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Thanks to Michael Howard for passing this along... "This list of papers was initially distributed on CD-ROM at NISSC '98. These papers are unpublished, seminal works in computer security. They are papers every serious student of computer security should
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This just in from Tech Ed - November 7th is going to be the official launch date of Team System, if you do the math backwards, that means time is running out for beta feedback - keep it coming!! "As part of the keynote address, Paul Flessner, senior vice
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testdriven.com pointed me to an interesting paper from Jim Highsmith on barriers to agile adoption as perceived at the CIO/CTO level: "At the recent Agile Development Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, one presentation included a series of objections
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see http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2005/06/01/424006.aspx
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Some ideas to fill your agile white board: http://www.bigvisiblecharts.com
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VSTS has diagramming capability - with the ability to actually validate the diagrams. The validation only applies to deployment designer diagrams. Make sure the diagram is open and then select the validate command from the context menu on the designer
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Siddharth (VSTS<->Project integration PM) sent this tip in an internal email thread to help someone map resources in MS Project to users in a Team Project: ...you can change the project mapping XML file after creating a Team Project. Use the projmap.exe
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