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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 grabbed google and tried finding a solution for ...

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 to schedule the workflow. What ...

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 get information later on the status of their ...

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 translations of the Visual studio Team ...

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 to change your work item type definition to ...

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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 is the fix of the WPF designer which allows ...

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 this issue I modified Sourcecontrol.config in ...

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 are short and the developer reading ...

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\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power ...