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November 2009 - Posts

TFS Integration Platform – Baseless Merge: Question & Answers 8

This morning I spotted a great question from one of our external Rangers and the answer by Pei . Does the current TFS2010 Version Control adapter support baseless merges? The current TFS2010 adapter supports baseless merge. Does the Adapter handle baseless Read More...
Posted Monday, November 30, 2009 10:20 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Kernel Debugging Day 3 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches comes to an end

We had two interesting days as outlined in Kernel Debugging Day 1 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches and Kernel Debugging Day 2 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches . Today was a journey Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 29, 2009 6:29 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC) – Cook Book

What I admire about Canada and especially the Microsoft Canada Development Centre is the diversity of cultures and continuous innovations at work, in the communities and now in the kitchen. "Hot off the press" ... MCDC has just released its International Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:26 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Which is the hardest working community?

Well, I recently CC’d a distribution list to trigger awareness around a new member who had joined the Rangers initiatives and the following response from Robert was just classic: “ Welcome […] to the hardest working Microsoft community :) ”. We may not Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 5:16 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – Asking the right questions

The dust is settling after the TFS Integration Platform “Alpha” shipped, although the downloads indicate that the dust is far from over. While the platform team is working on the BETA release, the Rangers are continuing with the samples for the custom Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 3:50 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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Kernel Debugging Day 2 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches

This post continues on day 2 of a debugging adventure we started in Kernel Debugging Day 1 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches . Today the spinning heads were still there … just spinning a lot faster, screaming for the Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 3:36 AM by willys | 0 Comments

Kernel Debugging Day 1 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches

Context Two weeks ago an invite went out for a “Kernel Mode Debugging” course and as I am always interested in debugging and a challenge, I signed up. That’s where I was today and for the next two days. I have not done any kernel mode development for Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 26, 2009 8:42 AM by willys | 0 Comments

Rangers Virtualisation – Automating the Hands-On-lab (HOL) environment

What happened to the Rangers? Why the silence … my apologies, but due to personal circumstances I have been promoted to commander-in-chief at home for 3 weeks, which means I am performing both the mom and dad role at home, the Rangers role at work, attending Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:04 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Dev4Devs … an exciting initiative in South-Africa … be there!

Dev4Devs is an exciting initiative that Eben initiated in South-Africa, bringing speakers and potential speakers together to talk about technology in 20 minutes slots. A great collaboration  opportunity and  I noticed that two of the SA Architect Read More...
Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 10:45 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – part 3: PERT Probability Calculations

In Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 1: Cost Evaluation we looked at some of the basic cost evaluation techniques, in Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 2: PERT Techniques we explored the PERT techniques and in the end we mentioned Read More...
Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 2:53 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Rangers Visual Studio 2010 Architect Edition Guidance: Kickoff!

The latest Rangers project just “kicked off” this morning and my next dev lead adventure. Included in this post is the motivation, the vision and the objective of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss more details with you if needed. For Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 6:59 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 2: PERT Techniques

In Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 1: Cost Evaluation we looked at some of the basic cost evaluation techniques when dealing with a number of projects and having to decide which will be the right one … not from a “technical having fun” Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 6:55 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Home Site – A new solution has bubbled up to the top!

It is always great to see when a solution bubbles up from “ Future Projects” list to the “ Current Ranger Solutions” list :) Have a peek at our Rangers site here , to visit the TFS Integration Platform site on Codeplex as well, and most importantly to Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:17 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 1: Cost Evaluation

Part of my part-time studies … don’t ask … included project management and two areas, which we take for granted when using the Microsoft Project tool are cost calculations and evaluations, as well as the application of PERT techniques. I personally found Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:16 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – ALPHA Release is available on Codeplex!

The TFS Integration Platform has a new home on Codeplex, where the product group and the VSTS Rangers have posted the ALPHA release of the platform.  The intention of the Alpha release is to improve the transparency of the project, for the community Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:55 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – What is the EnableBypassRuleDataSubmission in the Configuration File? Question & Answer 7

When you have a look at most of the TFS Integration Platform configuration files, you will notice the EnableBypassRuleDataSubmission , as shown in line 23 and 37 in the following Sample Configuration file: 1: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-16" Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:34 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers – New Quick Reference Posters on the Horizon

Here is a list of new quick reference posters that will be making an appearance in the specified projects shortly. We hope that these visualizations will add to the guidance documentation that they are part of … note that these are thumbnails and no attempt Read More...
Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 11:38 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration platform – Proof of concept for custom adapter writers

Working with a few early adopters and fellow VSTS Rangers (see picture on the right for a perfect VSTS Rangers and family life balance, as well as Springbok support from Robert and his son) it has become apparent that we need both a “Getting Started” Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:17 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform … To Err is Human … getting the conversion result right: Lesson #1

When I was debugging the custom adapter we developed for a proof-of-concept tonight, battling to keep my eyes open, I thought of a statement made by Paul Ehrlich … “ To err is human, but to really foul up things you need a computer ”. When I finally identified Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 7:58 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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The secret of creativity …

Albert Einstein once said: “ The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources ”. Well, when it comes to the VSTS Rangers solutions and all the creativity that the VSTS Rangers are bringing to life, then there is no hiding of the sources. Check Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 6:46 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Falling in love with Windows 7 …

It took me forever to move from XP and a short (ad)venture with Vista, to Windows 7 … but after enjoying the stability, the performance and the productivity enhancements for a couple of weeks I wish I had taken the plunge a lot earlier. Bookmark Martin’s Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:01 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – Provider not found Error. Question & answer 6

Context I have been battling with the following error and finally decided to delve into the debugger and isolate the gremlin. It just got worse, because when I finally found the method …LoadProvider(), which loads each Adapter DLL in the PlugIns directory Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:36 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Schaub Canada Log: 20091101 ... Halloween has come and gone

We are T+9 months, which means we are approaching 1 year in Canada, we have the first Canadian winter ahead of us and have just enjoyed the first real Halloween experience. After a long walk of enjoying the numerous Halloween decorations and the trick Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:41 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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