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by Martin Hinshelwood
Have you been waiting for a long time for Windows 7? Well I have.. I have been able to use Beta 1 and the RC for a good while now, and it surprised me that the Windows 7 Beta 1 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Another nice feature of Outlook 2010 that I like is the Calendar preview: Very effective for seeing quickly wither you can attend 🙂 Technorati Tags: Office
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework! I am going to use Unity only as a mapping …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have always been annoyed with the mechanics of the Team Foundation Server check-in policies. I understand the limitations, but having to have a specific policy installed on every developers computer before you can use it is slightly ridicules and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this. You can create a new …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Even though this sounds like a really simple thing, what if you do not know the name of the controls, and you do not want to have to add a bit of code that you, or another may developer may …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was asked by a colleague to provide a list of all files that were changed under a particular iteration. Rather than delving into the data, I made a couple of API calls to TFS to output a text file …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having a little problem with Visual Studio 2008 that only started after I had installed Office 2010. I found this interesting post on Visual Studio 2008 Locks or Freezes in ASPX from Rinat Abdullin that was a complete …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Hey, well the dentist was fun! And I have had time to install Office 2010 on my wife’s Windows 7 laptop. I will try to put together some of the interesting features… This is nice. Much better than the Google …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I will need to be quick, I have a dentists appointment (arg!), but I could not leave without at least a peek at Office 2010, so Outlook being my weapon of necessity, that the choice: You can’s see it from …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Now I have uninstalled Office 2007 32bit I am ready to get this 2010 thing going… I am installing on Vista 64, I know, but I cant get Windows 7 in the office yet… I always do a full install, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am installing office 2010, and I ran into my first gotcha! I have a 64 bit computer and I wanted to use the 64bit version of Office, but there is no upgrade option for this, you need to uninstall …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been using an excellent piece of software for twittering form my Windows Mobile. Twikini has all of the features you would expect, as well as working fantastically with the IPhone like features of Windows Mobile 6.5. I had …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I may be a little late to the game, but this rocks! The current rumours are that this will be available before Christmas and will cost in the region of £121! I for one will be pre-ordering one as soon …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If, like me, you are stuck with the old and decrepit version of Windows that is Vista SP1 at work then you may be interested in Service Pack 2 which became available on the MS Download site today. Windows Server …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Easy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different Team Server. This functionality was added with Visual Studio 2008 Service …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have just finished installing TFS 2010 beta 1 and doing an upgrade of out TFS 2008 data. This did not go well… Due to a collation mismatch between my original SQL Server 2005 and my new SQL Server 2008 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A little fun game from Microsoft to test your knowledge. Going to see if I get on the leader board, but I do not hold out much any hope… Check it out: You May Be a Tech Whiz, but Are …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Microsoft recently opened up there beta of the MyPhone service to the general public. The service syncs your Mobile phone with the web and allows access to your Contacts Calendar tasks, pictures and more. I have just left it running, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This problem it seams is to do with the way Visual Studio 2010 connects to your TFS server over HTTPS. The default value for “BypassProxyOnLocal” in Visual Studio 2008 was “False”, but it has been changed to “True” for Visual …