Marcel de Vries, MVP Team System

Microsoft LightSwitch just announced

Microsoft just announced their new extreme productivity tools you can add to Visual Studio 2010 to build business applications. It kind of looks like Microsoft access on steroids and produces not only web based applications, but does so in a scalable...

Published 03-08-2010 21:01 by marcelv

Creating an VS2010 add-in to show the running user as part of the main IDE window title

Today some of my fellow MVP’s asked the question if there is an option in Visual Studio to show under which user account the IDE is running. the need this feature since they do a lot of demonstrations on using the IDE and then use the runas option...

Published 22-06-2010 22:40 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System Extensibility, MVP, Regional Director, Visual Studio 2010

The how and why behind TF203015: <file> has an incompatible change, while unshelving a shelve set

Today one of our developers wanted to unshelve a shelve set he created earlier that morning and got the error message TF203015. I must say I also was quite confused about what an “incompatible change” would be and why it could not unshelve the files for...

Published 11-06-2010 20:06 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System, Visual Studio 2008, MVP, Team Foundation Server, Regional Director

WF persistence ownershipTimeout and multiple runtime instances, how to avoid scheduling of the the same workflow instance

In one of the projects I work for as an architect we ran into an interesting issue related to WF and WCF messages we receive. We discovered that each time we started our workflow host again, we would see the same workflow instance scheduled twice in different...

Published 07-06-2010 21:36 by marcelv

Filed under: Windows Workflow Foundation, Visual Studio 2008, MVP, Regional Director

TFS 2010 TF261007 error message when attaching a collection

Today I tried to move a TFS collection from one server to another server. I followed the steps as described in detail at the following location . But Unfortunately I forgot to remove the lab management resources. Since my new server does not have the...

Published 19-03-2010 13:32 by marcelv

SDN Session Visual Studio 2010 Architecture tools

Last evening I delivered a session for Software Developers Network. You can find the pdf version of the slides over here . Cheers, Marcel

Published 17-03-2010 8:30 by marcelv

Article in MSDN magazine got published

Well it has been an interesting journey, but today I found that the article I wrote with Brian A. Randell early this year on creating a custom team explorer extension got published. I haven’t received the glossy copy yet, but my search on MSDN resulted...

Published 14-12-2009 23:58 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System Extensibility, Team Foundation Server

Creating Custom DGML Diagrams using the Progression API

Thursday night I presented a Session for the VSUG in Belgium, with the title “Modeling that works with code”. In this session I demonstrated how we can add more value into models and diagrams and how that can help us to keep our model in sync with the...

Published 13-11-2009 20:24 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System Extensibility, DSL, MVP, Team Foundation Server, Regional Director, Visual Studio 2010

How to make VSTS DBPro work with the default database collation

today, I had a few hours of frustration, getting all databases in our project use the same collation. What I wanted to achieve is that we would use the default collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS but not script that in our SQL scripts. To start, for some...

Published 08-09-2009 23:59 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System, SQL 2008, Database profesional

Silverlight error messages can be very cryptic or even inappropriate sometimes

The past few days I have been working on a simple proof of concept where we want to replace some of the dashboards we have that where build in Flex/Flash with Silverlight 3 controls. The reason to switch has most to do with the fact we can maintain all...

Published 30-08-2009 21:26 by marcelv

Filed under: .NET development, Silverlight

Deep dive event at the Microsoft north Carolina office

I Just got back from my holiday in Tuscany Italy, and am already on the road again. We had a great opportunity to visit the Microsoft Team System development team in Raleigh NC. The team over there is responsible for the Team Foundation Server, Team Web...

Published 12-08-2009 13:14 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System, Working at Info Support, Team System Extensibility, Visual Studio 2008, Rosario, Visual Studio 2010

How to fix Team build Error in TFS2010 “MSTest.exe not found”

I must say it really helps a lot when you have someone available from the dev teams to solve some issues with the Beta Bits. As I told in my previous post I worked with Adam Bar from the Microsoft North Carolina Office for our devdays pre-conference....

Published 11-06-2009 12:57 by marcelv

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1: How to fix Worklow designer crash

Last week I gave a presentation internally at our Info Support Knowledge Transfer evenings. Based on a deep dive training I got to attend on Campus begin of May, I presented a session on Windows Workflow 4.0. As you might know I am passionate about two...

Published 10-06-2009 20:54 by marcelv

How to make Layer Validation Diagrams work in the build

In Visual studio 2010 Team Architect edition, you have a new type of diagram available, called the layer diagram. What is great about this diagram is that you can use it to actually validate if the source code you have written adheres to the rules you...

Published 09-06-2009 22:10 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System, Architecture, DSL, MVP, Rosario, Visual Studio 2010

Devdays 2009

It has been a few days since we held developer days conference here in the Netherlands. I Must say I was quite pleased to see there where so many attendees especially with the current economic situation. Devdays is always this special week in the year...

Published 04-06-2009 22:11 by marcelv

Filed under: Team System, Working at Info Support, Training and conferences, MVP, Regional Director, Visual Studio 2010