September 2005 - Posts
Just heard some good words about this training company from a platform evangelist in Texas: http://www.notionsolutions.com/ "Beginning in October 2005, Notion Solutions will be offering our new “Go Live! with Team System” training course. This course
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Just threw out a message in a bottle for MSN Search to put this in the top of the list for "handy developer tools" http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2005UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolList.aspx
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Read this first if you've installed security update 896358 or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 on the machine you will be reading the installation guide on: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902225/ Here's the installation guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=e
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This post, like all posts but more so, is my opinion, totally disclaimered, and likely out of date if you are reading this after TFS has shipped. The issue that every newbie hits is that giving a user TFS permissions by right clicking on the TFS server
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Using VSS Converter in Beta 3? Trust the blogs. Meet Akesh: http://blogs.msdn.com/akashmaheshwari/archive/2005/09/27/474304.aspx
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Common newbie question - I installed VSTS but where is the team menu option? Answer: There is one more step you need to do before it will show up - install the Team Foundation Client component on top of Visual Studio. Also it is important to realize that
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For some reason didn't discover this until today's company meeting. If you haven't seen this yet check out start.com - minimalist, RSS feeds, weather, etc. it's the 90's "portal" idea but minus the noise.
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Voy a empezar participar mas en la communidad MSDN Latinoamerica.... Vamos a ver. Tendra que perdonar mi espanol porque ha pasado demasiadio tiempo sin practicarlo. Hoy aprendi que puede recibir una copia de Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition (en inglés)
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This looks like an interesting community of sorts starting up - http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/
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I can't compete with the talking Automation Horse but in my pursuit of supporting QA community sites, here's a plug for AutomatedQA I got in email: ==== We'd like to invite you to visit aqCommunity, our new blog for developers and testers. AutomatedQA
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Brain dump of some random things I've learned about code analysis policy settings -- the settings that enforce code analysis prior to checking in source code. Team Foundation provides a way for the user to set a "lowest common denominator" code analysis
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I'm starting a traveling trophy today, we'll see how it goes: http://blogs.msdn.com/ejarvi/articles/trophy.aspx
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If you want to check out the latest design tools in the works... "Acrylic" (code name) is the professional design program that brings together the richness of pixel-based painting and the performance of editable vector graphics for a more fluid and flexible
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Just heard about this, haven't had a chance to really check it out but it looks really interesting: http://www.ms-inc.net/kpl.aspx
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Code coverage coloring used to be green, blue, and red. In recent builds I suddently noticed it's more of a blue/purple/red type of color scheme. This is hearsay, it may or may not have any grounding in fact. But I overheard in the hallway the other day
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Here is a brain dump of some things I learned today about collecting code coverage information with manual tests: Enable code coverage in the Code Coverage section of the testrunconfig options found under the Test menu similar to how you would for other
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"Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Team System from outside the Visual Studio environment. Previously codenamed "Allerton", Teamprise enables developers to use the source control and item tracking features of Team Foundation
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If you are experimenting with converting from VSS or CQ to TFS I got mail from a contact on the converter team who is interested in contacting you and making sure the toolset meets your needs. Let me know and I can introduce you. Here is some documentation
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Links stolen from an internal email thread for an HTML code colorizer, maybe it's just me but it's hard to find these using web search... (pre-post) http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeColorizer/Default.aspx http://puzzleware.net/codehtmler/ (control) http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/CodeHighlighter/PasteCode.asp
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Direct from my ISV Buddy. This is still in Beta but X5 is a web interface for Team System that provides full access to work item tracking features of Team Foundation Server over any Internet connection, and looks very promising: http://www.devbiz.com/x5we
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It used to be extremely painful to get ASP.NET unit tests working together from the same code base on team build and in multiuser environments because of a hardcoded path in the unit test that would break on different machines with different local paths.
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We're hiring - if you want to manage a truly cutting edge test team and have the right skills/experience to match this blurb below, contact me . I can give you some background info and help get your resume some extra publicity in front of the hiring manager.
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"All about performance testing with Keith Moon" http://www.qapodcast.com/node/9
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This was just forwarded to me from a friend in Eastside Fire & Rescue who asked me to pass the word along: 2005 Legislature Changes Law Pertaining to Yielding to Emergency and Police Vehicles http://www.wsp.wa.gov/newsfaqs/releases/nr090105.pdf
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Eric Lee is really coming through for us today, here is another one on Excel integration: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2005/09/08/462669.aspx
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Eric Lee posts on Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project mappings: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2005/09/08/462666.aspx
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http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598
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Visit http://www.sammamishcitizencorps.org and get involved if you can, there is an active CERT program http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/CERT/ that is worth signing up for. Make a 72 hour kit. ready.gov has some advice. I don't know the exact numbers but
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This came up on an internal list and seemed useful (disclaimer: I am a complete class diagramming newbie) - if you want to share your class diagram images on a website, in email, etc. there is an Export Diagram as Image command from the class diagram
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I don't know how many of you have already seen this but if you want some brain candy check out DSL as in Domain Specific Language. I just met a bright intern who is working on this team and is planning to give a high level overview presentation on September
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This seems to be a frequently asked question of C# users - why is VB the default language for my application? http://blogs.msdn.com/a_pasha/archive/2005/08/19/453713.aspx
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Thank to .NET Delirium for pointing out this site: http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2005/09/01/459576.aspx
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This looks promising, up-and-coming blog site at Infragistics (supporter of the .NET community): "Blogs Anyone? I would like to make everyone aware of another information outlet from Infragistics - our new blog site. http://blogs.infragistics.com/ Here
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