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April 2009 - Posts

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool 1.4 Released

An interim release of the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool has been released to deliver support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Find version 1.4 here . //Updated 20090429, sorry for the broken link. Thanks Peter, for catching it! Watch the space Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:38 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Tech-Ed 2009 South-Africa … Eben announces an amazing line-up of developer sessions!

I just stumbled over Eben’s blog post on the developer sessions he is planning for the Tech-Ed event, in South-Africa, Durban, 2-5 August. The menu offer ed is spectacular and I wonder how anyone can resist the event :) Although I am now on the other Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 10:14 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Introducing Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) & VSTS Rangers

As mentioned in my blog post Preparing for a TFS, VSTS and VSTS Rangers brownbag introduction session … so what? , we are hosting an  Engineering Excellence Talk – Canada Brown Bag (information sharing) session at the Microsoft Canada Development Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 2:42 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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Rambling … instrumentation and sampling, why I prefer the former

Continued from Rambling … loops and multi-processing. When things literally slow down… While riding on the bus today, i decided to test both sampling and instrumentation to try and figure out some of the anomalies we discussed in previous “ramblings” Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:15 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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Rambling … loops and multi-processing. When things literally slow down…

Continuing from Rambling … why is my dual processor colleague not twice as fast? I thought I should have a quick look at some basic looping and multi-processor support, released with the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework in .NET 3.5. Again I developed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:07 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Rambling … why is my dual processor colleague not twice as fast?

This weekend my son asked me a question that had me stumped, forced me to sit in the garden to think ( which was a great relief ) and to find a way of explaining it to him. Here is the result of my journey, whereby I used the example of adding eight numbers Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 7:45 PM by willys | 3 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Project - TFS2TFS Project Copy: Status Update 1

As promised and previously mentioned, we are pursuing complete transparency in terms of the VSTS rangers projects. I am herewith sharing with you, the outcome of the first status meeting, during which we agreed on scope, deliverables and milestones … Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 9:37 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Agile, Agility, O-O-D-A, Dog fighting … what am I mumbling about today?

On Wednesday evening I attended the session “The Essence of Agile”, delivered by  Steve Adolph, from the Agile Vancouver community. The session description was outlined as follows, whereby I copied the text in quotes and in italic from the Agile Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 8:44 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Project - Virtualized Deployment of TFS | VSTS: Status Update 1

As promised and previously mentioned, we are pursuing complete transparency in terms of the VSTS rangers projects. I am herewith sharing with you, the outcome of the first status meeting, during which we agreed on scope, deliverables and milestones … Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 8:24 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Hyper-V … you learn something new every day, after spitting like an angry Cobra

An angry spitting Cobra should be avoided at all costs … First the file sharing from my workstation to my trusted hyper-v server ‘suddenly’ failed after the long Easter weekend. Obviously my entrenched protocol implicitly implies that it is my fault and Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:35 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Corporate Citizenship, Community … it is time to throw the toys out of the cot

Ramblings which I just have to get off my shoulder … Recently a dear colleague, Willie Roberts , posted a notice on his blog that he is withdrawing from the public face of the South-African communities, from events such as TechEd and focusing on himself Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:17 PM by willys | 5 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Project - VSTS 2010 “101” Guidance Sheets: Status Update 1

As promised, we are pursuing complete transparency in terms of the VSTS rangers projects. I am herewith sharing with you, the outcome of the first status meeting, during which we agreed on scope, deliverables and milestones … with the proviso that you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:21 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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VSTS 2010 – Some cool new features in C# 4: Optional Parameters and COM (part 2 of many)

I mentioned named parameters and dynamic types in my previous post of tripping over interesting things in C#4. In this post we will re-look at named and optional parameters to mention some more facts and then conclude with another new feature, the COM Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:54 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Project – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Source snapshot available on Codeplex

As requested by the Most Valued Professional (MVP) members at the MVP Global Summit, the TFS Migration team has posted an interim source code update on Codeplex for the project located at http://tfstotfsmigration.codeplex.com/ in March, as shown in the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:13 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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Radio TFS – Oracle Support for Visual Studio Team System

The latest broadcast from radio TFS covers and I quote from the site menu: “ In this episode Martin called Doug Seven and Daniel Norwood to talk about the work Quest are doing to provide Oracle support inside Visual Studio team System 2010.  Doug Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 2:58 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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VSTS 2010 – Branch Visualisation

Ladislau pointed me at blog post from Brian Keller which introduces a video which demonstrates how you can to visually track how a changeset is propagated through branches in Dev10. The following video is a “ must see ”: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Branching-and-Merging-Visualization-with-Team-Foundation-Server-2010/ Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 2:45 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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Preparing for a TFS, VSTS and VSTS Rangers brownbag introduction session … so what?

With the help of the colleagues Bill Maurer, Sam Guckenheimer , Sajee Mathew and Daryush Laqab I have created a set of slides to introduce the Visual Studio Team System product and the VSTS Rangers team at the Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC) Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 5:14 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Architecture & Toolbox Briefing Notes

Terry Yang (Software Development Engineer) delivered an interesting first briefing on the new TFS Migration toolbox architecture today. The session was arranged and attended by the VSTS Rangers working on this initiative. Here are some notes I made for Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:04 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Live Meetings … who/what is the fly on the wall?

In case you too are wondering what the “fly on the wall” is all about, when you see Willy attending twice in Live Meetings, I will elaborate briefly :) No, I am not attending twice and I can reassure everyone that I have neither been cloned, nor is there Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:26 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Willy[-Peter] Schaub - Who am I?

I am often asked to create a biography for sessions, events, meetings and other reasons, finding myself scrambling for facts and doing it over and over and over again … now why aim for re-use other than with software?!? For the sake of re-use, visibility Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:24 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Migration Guidance Initial Thoughts

The new VSTS Rangers project, which entails the TFS Migration and TFS2TFS Project Copy tools, is under construction as outlined in VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Artefacts . In the past the TFS Migration Toolkit initiative has caused a Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 8:21 PM by willys | 2 Comments

On a personal note … why do we have so much stuff?

This weekend we started unpacking our container, which had made its way across the Atlantic from South-Africa. We planned to be done in 48 hours, but I guess we will take a little bit longer. The weekend was tough, as the bones were aching from the “Microsoft Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 4:36 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Cares Evergreen Project – Back breaking fun :)

A group of MCDC’tonians boarded a bus this morning and headed out to the Great Northern Way Campus site to assist in the research that BCIT is investing in “converting a unused industrial lands into city gardens for to be used to support ongoing sustainability Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:43 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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A great VSTS Bookmark - Developer Support Team Foundation Server

Here is an exceptional blog that covers “ Tips, tricks, thoughts and experiences from the Microsoft Team Foundation Server global support team ”, a view of the work our support team is engaged with and an invaluable resource for installation, administration Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:06 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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