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by Martin Hinshelwood
I am currently taking votes for which features will make it into the next version of the TFS Sticky Buddy (v1.1 CTP 1), which will move towards v2.0. The current list of features is slim, but specific. Features (11 Votes) …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been having a lot of Kerberos double hop problems on the network at work, and although I have not yet managed to fix them… I did find these useful pages: What Is Kerberos Authentication? – Good high level …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This is the first full release of the TFS Sticky Buddy application written in VB.NET 9 and WPF with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit. The application provides a graphical view of TFS Work Items and allow user to navigate round …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As you have probably noticed I have been soldiering on with the TFS Sticky Buddy project, and I though I would share. With the next release you will be able to connect to any external (not on same domain) TFS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
All to soon and it is that time again…I have been developing, hell bent on getting a working sticky buddy online, and here it is… Download TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 Now… With this version you can select what work …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There is a Community Technology Preview release of the Team Foundation Server Sticky Buddy digital dashboard project that is built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I have used the source code from the Family.Show project to create functionality and a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I seam to be having a little problem. Now, this may be me being stupid, but I can’t get an ObservableCollection to work if you pass it a generic type! For example, consider the following code: Public Class ItemBitCollection(Of TItem) …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Over the last week I have been looking at the source for the Family.Show application from Vertigo. I needed to look at methods of presentation of hierarchical information graphically using WPF and I saw this as a good representation of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of interest in the Sticky Buddy project. I was particularly exited when Siddharth Bhatia contacted me, but disappointed that he could not get the proof of concept versions to work. Well, hopefully …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have found a small bug (as in, “Not working as expected!”) in the new .NET 3.5 PrincipalContext classes. When you are running on an ASP.NET site in impersonation mode you cannot retrieve information from active directory without the following …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Imports System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement In WPF development you can’t just use the “My.User.Name” classes as it is not set by default. If you still want to use it you can “My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser()” to have it setup, but there is a better way. If …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Documentation, documentation and more documentation.. The life blood of IT. The only problem being that it is very difficult for a technically minded individual such as myself to write documentation with NO technical content what so ever! These documents are …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You can now Download the TFS Sticky Buddy windows presentation foundation proof of concept demo from the Codeplex site. This is a proof of concept release of the Team Foundation Server Sticky Buddy digital dashboard project that is built using …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You can now Download the TFS Sticky Buddy windows forms proof of concept demo from the Codeplex site. This is a proof of concept release of the Team Foundation Server Sticky Buddy digital dashboard project that is built using Windows …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I had a lot of fun trying to lay out my TFS Sticky Buddy project using Windows Forms, and eventually decided that it was way to fiddle doing it in a Forms based application. It was not just that tables …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I hade been looking with envy at the digital whiteboard experiment, and with dismay at the lack of open source for the project. So… I will be creating a version of the Sticky Buddy idea that will run off Team …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You? Having just watched the entire 3rd series and waiting with bated breath for the 4th and final season, I could not resist this quiz… I know…I’m a bit sad… Technorati Tags: Personal
by Martin Hinshelwood
I currently have the task of setting up SharePoint Portal for my company. But here is the kicker, they have users in almost every country in the world, so how to structure the deployment. I knew roughly how to do …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having occasion to rebuild my Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) development server. In fact, I killed it by adding a Business Data Catalog (BDC) that pointed to a table that had just over a million rows… Now, maybe …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you want to use Kerberos authentication and not NTLM with SharePoint then there are some extra tasks that you need to get someone with Domain Admin privileges to perform. For EVERY dns / port combination a SPN needs to …