Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
You may think, why is he uninstalling VS2010? Well, apart from proving that it works…And that it plays well with VS2008 I need to remove the pre-beta beta that I have installed. This is in fact the second time I have uninstalled VS2010 on this computer, and I had no problems last time, but the […]
Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008
Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to Team Foundation Server 2008 is a snitch… If you have done it from VS200x to TFS200x then you will have no problems understanding what is going on… Unlike previous versions of Team Suit there is not need to install Team Explorer separately as it comes preinstalled. As you can see, […]
Reformat your CSS on the fly
Have you ever, when developing a website, been frustrated when you get a different result when you deploy your application to http://site/ and http://site/app/. I don’t know about you, but it annoys the hell out of me. All that work in CSS and none of your images work when you run it in a different […]
Presenting Aplication Lifecycle Management: Precursor
I am doing a presentation this afternoon on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This is the first time that I have ever presented on this topic, and I found out that I was doing it on Friday! I have put together a bunch of slides pulling information mostly from Wikipedia. I have another presentation afterwards on […]
Team Build Error
I received a confusing error from MS Build on Friday. I assumed that it was a GDR version issue for the top level message: Now, we have the situation with our Business Intelligence system where we have 2 solutions. One for Visual Studio 2005 projects that consist solely of the Business Intelligence Package bits, and […]
Found GDR Bug: At least I think it is.
This is not isolated to GDR, but seams to exist in Data Dude as well. If you create the following SQL: 1: CREATE VIEW [dbo].[v_SomeView] AS 2: SELECT [BH].[Col1], 3: [BH].[Col2], 4: [BH].[Col3], 5: [BH].[Col4], 6: [BH].[Col5], 7: CASE WHEN [BHPP].[OtherCol1] IS NULL THEN -1 ELSE 1 END As [Col6], 8: CASE WHEN [BHPP].[OtherCol1] […]
Visual Studio 2008 and the GDR CTP16
Well we have been having a few problems with the GDR. Essentially when we import our database it complains about dependencies. We have many stored procedures that call stored procedures that call stored procedures! This seams to give the GDR fits. Maybe we are doing something that we are not supposed to, but SQL does […]
TFS Sticky Buddy Update
The Sticky Buddy has been updated to fix the following problems: Votes ID Title 2 2598 Application has stopped responding” when Logging into CodePlex and a Domain is not entered in the UserName field 1 2630 Handle large number of work items in the node display This means that if you run TFS Sticky Buddy […]
Problems with Team Explorer after installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM
I received the following error box after installing VS2008 SP1 RTM: Team Foundation Error Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls.ItemsUpdatedExternallyEventArgs’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f57f11d50a3a This stopped me accessing version control…a key part if you ask me. The first thing I tried was to “Repair” Team Explorer, but that did not help, so […]
Updating to Visual Studio 2008 SP1
If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta installed make sure that you run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool prior to the installation, Microsoft were trying to make this a seamless process, but on Heath Stewart’s Blog he mentions that this was not possible in the end. The Preparation tool takes a […]