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I am having a little bit of fun with this application and I though I would share. it logs all of the applications that you are using and gives you stats on it. How about joining the Microsoft MVP (MVP’s …
In my recent troubles with branching and merging I found (it was not lost, I just did not know about it) a fantastic tool, that has actually been part of the power tools for about two years, for comparing two …
I have been trying to get a handle on doing an automated build of our Business Intelligence solutions and I am always running into problems around the (IMO badly build) BI Packages that are installed via SQL. They do not …
I received a wee email from Kevin Doherty the CEO at Phase2. These guys host lots of useful things and the had obviously decided to host TFS as part of their offering. This is a really great site, I regularly …
I thought I should explain how to enable the “My Calendar” web part on you’re my Site (homepage). Here is my “MySite”, as you can see I have a horrible picture, but if you check out the red rectangle you …
If you want to be able to use workflow on you’re my site that will allow you to assign tasks to your colleagues, then you need to take a couple of thing into consideration. The most important is to give …
I know that I have not been posting in a while, and I hope to remedy that. I have been working on getting our internal team up to speed on using TFS as a full ALM tool and not just …
Stats on out TFS Instance. Not much but growing. Users Recent users: 18 Users with assigned work items: 27 Version control users: 36 Work Items Work Items: 636 Areas & Iterations: 179 Work item versions: 5,642 Attached files: 46 Queries: …
I recently found the need to Sync two lists. I have one list that is used for display, and I want to dynamically sync that list with a new one by applying a delta. I thought that this would be …
Well, I have just joined the auspicious ranks of Team System MVP’s, now numbering 73 worldwide. You can see my profile on the MVP site. My name will now appear along side Mitch Denny and Tiago Pascoal. Wow… I have …
Microsoft has just announced that the two products, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Developers and Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers as been combined. From today if you Own either version in 2005 or 2008 flavours you will also …
I have a little custom control I need added to my Visual Studio Team System projects. This control will allow specific groups of users as representatives of Advocacy groups with in the life cycle model to sign off a Requirement …
With the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas now available I am looking forward to many of the features I have already previewed in the beta of Windows Live Messenger 9. These are the English installs, but other languages are …
It seams as if they went well! The plan of under preparing and over delivering worked a treat… Because I know the topics the lack of a prepared script allowed me to concentrate more on emparting knowlage and less on …
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 …
{Rant} I think that it would be good to remove the drop down to select your blog from the main blog writing page. I tapped it by mistake when I was trying to select a piece of text and lost …
As I am traveling today and I am not taking a laptop, I want to be able to do a little personal work from my mobile.. What I would realy like is to be able to monitor and edit my …
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 …
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 …
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 …