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September 2005 - Posts

• Importing my Process templates in BETA 3

  It appears the Team system team has been busy in changing the process template information. This is something we where expecting, but while the Beta is released the Extensibility kit isn’t yet. Today I did some work to get our process template up Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:22 PM by marcelv | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System

• Installing Team Foundation Server Beta 3, Wahoo what a rush

  Really unbelievable, the team system team did a really great job on making Installation a lot easier. After downloading the Beta 3 bits already this weekend, I did not get the time to install yet until last night. I got an email from our datacenter guys Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:27 AM by marcelv | 4 Comments Filed under: Team System

• Work arround for copied SNK file

  In follow-up to my post on Visual studio 2005 copying my snk file all over the place in my solution I got the following response from the Microsoft Team: Hi Marcel, we are already aware of this issue and hope to address it in a future version of VS This Read More... Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 12:44 PM by marcelv | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET development

• Interesting observations porting a library to .Net framework 2.0.

  Today I have done some impact analysis on converting a pretty large library used at a customer of mine. During this impact analysis I decided to just import the project into Visual Studio 2005 and see what happens. While converting the project I came Read More... Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:40 PM by marcelv | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET development

• Back home again, what did PDC bring me?

  So PDC is over and I am back to work again. But what did PDC bring me? Well I must say that I can recap PDC as being pretty overwhelming in regards of new stuff presented to me. I thought I was always keeping up with Microsoft Technology pretty well. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:02 AM by marcelv | 1 Comments Filed under: Working at Info Support, .NET development

• LINQ, Data access of the future really rocks

  The past two days where really packed with lots of new stuff. I must say I was a little bit disappointed at first with the keynote of Bill and Jim. I found that many of the demo’s they came up with where more or less a repeat of the stuff they did Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:10 PM by marcelv | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, .NET development

• My First two days of PDC

  The past two days I have attended the preconf sessions. I must say I learned allot on SQL server. The past year I did not take the effort to dive into new SQL 2005 stuff, but to catch up I decided to attend the two preconf sessions on SQL 2005. Attending Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:13 AM by marcelv | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, .NET development

• Importing new Work Item types from Beta2 to July CTP

  Yesterday I got the chance to spend a little more time on my new setup Team Foundation Server. I managed to do an import of the work item types I created for my Beta 2 setup and found that for my situation there where 3 changes I needed to make to my Read More... Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 5:08 AM by marcelv | 4 Comments Filed under: Team System

• Team System July CTP, Got it running again!

  Continuing my episode of installing Team System I managed to get it up and running. (So I am happy again :-)) I did the following to make it work: I Used the June CTP of SQL Server enterprise in stead of the Developer edition. I have seen some posts in Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:30 AM by marcelv | 4 Comments Filed under: Team System

• HTTP Deployment, What is allowed in your local intranet?

  Lately I developed some applications that are deployed using HTTP deployment. This is a great way of leveraging the web model of centralized deployment while using the full richness of a windows interface. This all is great but you must be aware of the Read More... Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 1:56 PM by marcelv | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET development

• Installing July CTP, Bitten by the error beast again

  We are ramping up for our production environment to switch to the latest greatest version of Team System. (We want to run production on Beta 3, but we use the CTP for verification of e.g. the work items we created) So I decided to install the July CTP. Read More... Posted Friday, September 02, 2005 4:12 PM by marcelv | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System, .NET development