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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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As of today I'm one of the guys that had to face the upgrading process from silverlight 2.0 to silverlight 3.0 with a nightly build. It was a special kind of experience, because appearantly what was supposed to be a smooth switch turned out to be a whole day of trial and error with a successful migration...
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Sometimes Visual studio is trying to tell me that I shouldn't do what I'm doing at that very moment. This morning I had one of those episodes when trying to add items to the toolbox. I right-clicked on the toolbox and choose Add items. Suddenly visual studio is gone and I'm wondering what...
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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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Since a couple of weeks I have been having quite a delay when deleting files in visual studio. First I thought it was my Visual Studio installation, but I had the same weird delays on my machine at home. After frustrating myself once at home by reinstalling visual studio without getting any results I...
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Last week I have been working on our workflow solution where someone discovered that in some cases it appeared that certain workflows did not complete and would never wake up again. It took me a while to figure out why this was the case. We host our workflows in IIS and there we use the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService...
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The past two days I have been working on a performance problem we were having with a workflow implementation. The workflow was quite simple, A WCF call coming in, then registering the request data in a SQL database and return a ticket that the request was received. The ticket can be used by people to...
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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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Microsoft is working hard on a service pack for .NET 3.5 and visual studio 2008 and it sure does look good. For a full list of features look here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx One of the most important things to me...
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This morning I had the problem that when I opened visual studio 2005 it started complaining about the fact that a workspace was already mapped to a specific path. Visual Studio somehow forgot that I had indeed mapped the TFS project to path on my harddrive and I had to manually fix the problem. To fix...
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There's a lively discussion going on at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jean-paul_boodhoo/archive/2008/04/22/got-var.aspx about whether or not you should use implicit typed variables in your codebase. Personally I think that using implicit typed variables is acceptable, but this only works when methods...
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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...