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How to get great search results and support healthy competition on the web
16 June 09 07:00 AM | psheill | 0 Comments   

How can you get the best search results, get cash back and promote a healthy marketplace in web search? A few simple steps: 1) Install Firefox - we need an exclusive feature from it. 2) Learn about Firefox keywords from http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords Read More...

Filed under: google, firefox, bing

Fastest possible way to review your code changes
13 May 09 11:24 AM | psheill | 1 Comments   

If you have some simple TFS changes to sanity check, here's a quick way to review them: tf diff /format:Unix | gvim - This will load up the diffs in VIM where you can review them without ever touching the mouse. Read More...

Filed under: VIM, TFS

Customizing BgInfo to include the installed runtimes
01 April 09 10:59 AM | psheill | 0 Comments   

Almost without exception, Windows developers use the tools from Sysinternals such as Process Explorer. Another one that I've recent adopted is BgInfo , which displays useful system info on your desktop to save time and help distinguish multiple machines Read More...

Filed under: BgInfo, clr

CodeDOM and Memory Usage
18 October 07 10:33 AM | psheill | 1 Comments   

CodeDOM is used by several other library components including WinForms, ASP.NET, XSLT and Web Services. It can be used to automatically generate code at design time, such as from a visual form, and it can be used to generate code at runtime, "on the fly", Read More...

Team Foundation Server Event notifications
09 May 06 01:54 PM | psheill | 3 Comments   

Howard van Rooijen is doing interesting things with Team Foundation Server events , and sharing his work. That's great to see. There are a few things I'd like to add to his post. There are some important events not listed on his page. One is the CheckinEvent. Read More...

Be careful creating custom subscriptions with BisSubscribe - event type names are case sensitive
16 March 06 09:01 AM | psheill | 5 Comments   

We tried to be generally case insensitive in Tfs, in alignment with the default settings in Sql Server and Windows. There's one place where we messed up though. If you create a subscription to a "CheckInEvent" through the command-line tool, you won't Read More...

Configuring WorkItemTracking Object Model for use by a Web Service or Web Application
03 March 06 11:43 AM | psheill | 0 Comments   

I'm posting this for a colleague - Naren Datha. It's a document he wrote for developers writing web service/application Team System add-ons that rely on the Work Item Tracking object model. Read More...

Attachment(s): Configuring WIT OM for Web.doc

Receiving Team Foundation events - one more correction
28 February 06 04:39 PM | psheill | 2 Comments   

If you've written any web services that listen for Team Foundation events for any previous beta releases, you'll want to update your web method for RC. We made one (hopefully last) change to the Action and RequestNamespace. The "02" became an "03". If Read More...

Sql Server 2005 blocking quiz
20 February 06 11:02 AM | psheill | 1 Comments   

You’ve read Inside Sql Server 2000 cover to cover, but how well do you really know the database locking behavior? Here's a 10 question quiz (attached) to find out. Read More...

Attachment(s): blocking.doc

How to subscribe to Tfs alerts for new workitems only
01 February 06 11:58 AM | psheill | 11 Comments   

If you want to get notified for all new workitems, regardless of who they get assigned to, you will want a custom subscription. Here is an example of how to create one with the BisSubscribe tool that is on the server. There is a ChangeType with each WorkItemChangedEvent, Read More...

Tfs via Python
30 January 06 03:06 PM | psheill | 0 Comments   

I did some experiments interacting with Tfs through IronPython , and it's been enjoyable. They've done a great job making .NET available in a dynamic way through the Python language. IronPython can run as an interactive toplevel, where it responds to Read More...

How to verify Tfs is sending emails
28 November 05 03:08 PM | psheill | 4 Comments   

In some cases, it's necessary to verify that Tfs is attempting to send emails. In the release version, we've made sure that errors connecting to the mail server are logged in the Application event log on the TF Server. Until release, or if you would like Read More...

How Tfs sends emails - testing the smtp pipes
22 November 05 10:39 AM | psheill | 5 Comments   

If you are having trouble getting Tfs to send emails, one thing to test is connectivity and permission to send. Sometimes the mail server will refuse to accept email if the sending account doesn't itself have a mailbox, or if the "from" address doesn't Read More...

Team Foundation Server (Tfs) Events
21 November 05 11:28 AM | psheill | 0 Comments   

I’ve been meaning to write more about Team Foundation Server (TFS) events and notifications for some time now. These are the hooks for being notified of, for example, checkins or workitem (bug) changes. Now that our beta3 is out, a lot more people are Read More...

Receiving Team Foundation Events - Correction
15 July 05 09:31 AM | psheill | 2 Comments   

The documentation for Visual Studio beta 2 gives the following example for receiving TFS events (work item change, checkin, build completed, etc.). [SoapDocumentMethod(Action = "http://Microsoft.VisualStudio.Bis/Notify")] [WebMethod] public void Notify(string Read More...