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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 reason the DBPro team decided not to use the names...
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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 Access, Team Test, Setup & Ops and Team Build...
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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 defined in terms of allowed dependencies between...
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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 for me since I tend to always give sessions on the...
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When you want to Enable code coverage in an Unit test run in Visual Studio 2010 you may find that the steps you need to take have changed. In Visual Studio 2010 you need to take the following steps: Open the Local.testsettings file and there you will see a set of items you can configure on the left hand...
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Today I was asked one of the most asked questions related to work item tracking: “Can you can assign a work item to a group in stead of a person”? My standard answer to this question is “yes” and I tell people this can be easily be done by setting the ALLOWEDVALUES to include...
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When I got back in the office this morning I was very pleased to see the Congratulations email in my inbox. Little excerpt from the mail: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively...
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A few weeks ago I already posted about the fact that we have made great progress on the translation project at codeplex. I am proud to announce that we completed the first set of languages and we have a first release available for download at codeplex . The following languages are now available in addition...
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The past few weeks a lot of contributers have been extremely busy getting a first release out of the door of our Team System Web Access Translation project. I bloged about this initiative previously and I just wanted to give you a little update. We currently are working towards a release somewhere end...
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Brian Harry’s announced this a while ago on his blog (here) and now the time is there to give you the first pointers to where we are in the Team System Web Access Translation effort. The last few weeks I have been working with MS Folks on this project. This project is trying to provide additional...
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On e of the things only few people know about work item tracking is its ability to have HTML descriptions in your work item. With HTML, I mean that you can have rich editing capabilities, like colors, bold, underline, different fonts, bulleted lists and even hyperlinks. For this to work, you only need...
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Last week at the MVP summit we got a great demo of the features that are in the just released power tools . One of them is the new TfsServerManager tool that you can use to look at your TFS server and it's overall health and performance. The tool can be found after installation in the "Program Files...
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It has only been a few days ago, when I gave some talks at the Visual Studio 2008 Launch event here in the Netherlands.(b.t.w you can download the slide deck of the presentations over here ) Now the product is launched customers can start using the product and our integrated version of the Endeavour...
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Thursday I will be doing two sessions on Team system at the Visual studio 2008 launch event. One "Chalk & Talk" session and one session on "what is new in visual Studio Team System 2008". While the launch event is not even over, I just got the confirmation from the devdays organization...
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Today I spend a fair amount of time figuring out why my visual studio solution appeared to be not bound to version control. I started visual studio, connected to the team foundation server and there browse in the version control explorer to the solution I wanted to open (I had to do some code reviews...