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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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VSTS Rangers – Champion Survey Results … Finally we can ring the Swiss Cow Bells :)

A while ago be asked all the active external VSTS Rangers and VSTS Ranger project leads to vote for their external VSTS Rangers champion of the current wave of VSTS Rangers projects, which included: TFS 2010 Requirements Management, TFS 2010 Branching Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:17 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Part 3 of 3

In VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Part 1 of 3 we introduced the first innovation which introduced a consolidated collaboration team site and in VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:56 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 2010 Editions Quick Reference Poster … still BETA, but we have revision 2 available

Poster updated 2009-11-02. This is not the official or final version of the Visual Studio 2010 community quick reference poster, but an interim revision. Your continued feedback and comments will be most welcome, so that the SA Architect community leads Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:55 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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