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Team Foundation Server + PowerShell = Happiness
Today I deleted my CodePlex project TfsPasteAttachment It was (up until today) located @...
Date: 04/20/2009
[EDIT: found the relevant blog post which points to the instructions MSDN subscribers have to use,...
Date: 01/26/2009
This isn’t new to Windows 7 (I got the same when upgrading from XP to Vista). However, it still...
Date: 01/26/2009
Many thanks to reader ajcg whose comment in my previous post was spot-on. Once I upgraded VPC 2007...
Date: 01/10/2009
Clearly someone on the Win7 team is a fan of Colbert's comic! ;) At least, that's my theory and I'm...
Date: 01/09/2009
EDIT: UPDATE: SP1 fixes this! Yay!!! Others seem to have run it with no problems, and I installed it...
Date: 01/08/2009
Sea Tea Pea Three Whee! Go get it! The bits in the overview I want to call out (because I've seen...
Date: 12/23/2008
While chatting with a co-worker about a bug I had fixed a few weeks back, Communicator unexpectedly...
Date: 12/03/2008
I'm noticing silverlight pick up a behavior from flash that I don't like: kicking out of full-screen...
Date: 11/16/2008
Common confusion - "Reporting Services Data Source Account" != account Reporting Services is running as
A few of us were working just this morning on trying to prevent this confusion in the next version,...
Date: 09/18/2008
I ran across a C# file that had been removed from its csproj file, but it hadn't been deleted from...
Date: 07/20/2008
I won't claim this is efficient, or well-written, or whatever, but it WorksForMe and I figured I'd...
Date: 07/19/2008
I happened to change a piece of code over the weekend and used both. It's a tiny piece of code, so I...
Date: 06/30/2008
https://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v Many people on our team (including myself, of course) have been...
Date: 06/27/2008
Just noticed in an email from Bruce that his book is now available on Safari! Yay!
Date: 06/25/2008
For those keeping score, last time it was Windows Server 2008. For various reasons (that I won't...
Date: 06/20/2008
While wanting to verify the hash of a dd-wrt firmware I downloaded, I read about this app called...
Date: 06/05/2008
Despite having a 1 Gbps Intel network card plugged into a 100Mbps switch, my Link Speed claims...
Date: 06/05/2008
Tan's post reminded me that I never got around to posting this silly batch script that I use. As you...
Date: 06/05/2008
While you can certainly use Vista's Complete PC Backup to generate a vhd of your machine, it doesn't...
Date: 06/05/2008
I didn't think it would work, but I was trying it yesterday because of the OS requirements for SCVMM...
Date: 06/04/2008
I'm a few days behind on posting this, but now you can run the current version of sysinternals tools...
Date: 05/31/2008
Maybe I'm the only one, but that movie gave my 6-year-old self quite the nightmares. I don't think...
Date: 05/28/2008
One of the painful parts of TFS 2008 install is that you can point (via the msiproperty.ini file)...
Date: 05/15/2008
Jason mentioned their TXLooker back in early April, but not long after that, TeamExpand announced...
Date: 05/14/2008
The OOTB experience for code reviews isn't horrible (shelvesets work fine, in my experience), but...
Date: 05/14/2008
Another brown-paper-bag bug in TFS 2005 was that, by default, all valid users could see the full...
Date: 05/13/2008
While there are projects like LizardTF, IMHO you're better off running SvnBridge and then using your...
Date: 05/13/2008
While we already have the code so SP1 final will support the RTM version of SQL Server 2008, because...
Date: 05/13/2008
I helped a friend via email with this last week and just noticed a similar blog post. If...
Date: 05/13/2008
Joel's 12 rules rightfully includes 2 entries on creating builds. While many would argue that...
Date: 05/13/2008
I'm about a month behind on this one, but based on their technology roadmap, TFS integration is on...
Date: 05/13/2008
One of the things I miss when using TFS instead of Subversion is svn's metadata ("properties") that...
Date: 05/12/2008
Helen: You're late. When you asked me if I was doing anything later, I didn't realize you'd actually...
Date: 05/09/2008
I made a failed attempt to see if we would be willing to make the next version of Team Foundation...
Date: 05/08/2008
This request came in from an internal PS list. You can certainly make it fancier, and all it does...
Date: 04/17/2008
A potential place to use an extension method cropped up in our team this week, and I gave feedback...
Date: 04/07/2008
This one is, unfortunately, very easy to get wrong, and lots of people do, even those inside...
Date: 04/06/2008
In the cmd world, I constantly had filenames that I had to copy-paste onto a gvim command-line,...
Date: 03/04/2008
I've had this come up in conversations in the past (and it's been on feedback for almost 3 years...
Date: 02/25/2008
Ok, so it's just in the planning stages, but you may have run across Charlie Calvert's recent blog...
Date: 02/21/2008
Most of you likely already know this, but I've seen 2 customers that were confused by this but I...
Date: 02/06/2008
A guy on my team dropped by to ask me how to do this, so I figured it'd be worth posting about. The...
Date: 02/03/2008
After leaving the version control team to work on the freshly created admin/ops team, we ended up...
Date: 01/21/2008
Recently we've been realizing that while we have docs around many of our administrative scenarios...
Date: 01/20/2008
Got a few good comments to the quiz post, but nobody that commented got it right. I went ahead and...
Date: 11/24/2007