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by Martin Hinshelwood
With many people skipping off early for their holly bags, me included.. I thought I should send this out now… Send your own ElfYourself eCards Merry Christmas from the Hinshelwood family. If you are having problems accessing or see a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If, like me, you tried to deploy a solution to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it ether failed or hung you will need to remove it somehow. But once the status has moved to “deploying”, if you receive an …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been getting very interested in the new Azure Services Platform and how I can use it to facilitate WPF development. Imagine being able to launch a ClickOnce application from anywhere and for it to have exactly the same …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Some of the new Windows Live Wave 3 services have gone live over the last couple of days. One of the best IMO is the SkyDrive services, updated to 25GB and with complete integration with other services like Photo Share, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users. It is …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This is a lot harder than it sounds. At first you think there will be a built in option with the Read Identities method on the IGroupSecurityService Interface, but you would be wrong! When capturing an event from Team Foundation …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users. It is …
by Martin Hinshelwood
First, download the new Data Dude. Download page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Setup http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/setup.exe Read Me http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Readme.mht Documentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Documentation.zip Once you get it going the install is pretty easy. Things to watch out for are: Remove all previous versions before the install. This …
by Martin Hinshelwood
What a mouthful! Has there ever been any products with names as long as the Team System toolset ;), Maybe thats why it is just called Data Dude. Anyway, congratulations to the Data Dude team for this wonderful piece of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Here I am slogging my guts out, trying to get TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0 out the door and bang goes the TFS server 🙁 This is tfs05 on the Codeplex environment. All the others seem to be running OK, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If, like me, you are interested in using all the new fangled controls produced by every man and his dog, you will probably have come across the Infragistics WPF control. My mission, that I stupidly accepted, was to update the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It seams that Microsoft is making an attempt to integrate with OpenID. With the announcement that “Windows Live ID commits to support of OpenID” I thought a little investigation would be in order. You need to setup a new Live …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I hope everyone is looking forward to the new Xbox live experience that will be going Live tomorrow! Hopefully we are passed the days of the ring of death from the update, unless you have a hacked box 🙂 Although …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, that’s me got passed the 100,000 Visits milestone. I guess it is seams bigger than it is, but as the next big one would be a million I am chuffed to get this far 🙂 — Site Summary — …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Ok, so I lied a little. It is not that cheap, but 30% off an upgrade from a team edition to full Team Suit is nothing to be sniffed at, it could be as much as £1000 off! If your …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It seams that the event of the year is back! Developer Day Scotland returns for a second year as posted by Barry Dorrans in Glaswegien 🙂 Last year was a fantastic event that I enjoyed immensely 🙂 I will …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If, like me, you like to have changeable resource files in your application. Wither it is for changing the Theme, or interchanging templates you will need to take special care when using the libraries. The new version of the TFS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This looks like a fantastic product that will let you do pretty much everything that has been missing from TFS. You can cop / clone projects across servers. you get disaster recovery capabilities that surpass anything that has before been …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There is a new release of the Power Tools for team system. As an MVP I was involved in the trial that started early this month, and I can tell you that a LOT of work has gone into these …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Lets just say that it will be a while in development. I am trying to implement the Composite Application blocks for WPF from Microsoft in an attempt to make the application more modular. I will be updating and releasing under …