by Martin Hinshelwood
I recently had the need to create and deliver a presentation on Developing Peer-To-Peer Applications With WCF. Although the technical content was good, my delivery was not. I got stage fright… As I approached the room to give the presentation …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When I posted my question “Would anyone be interested in Hosted TFS?” on linked in I was hopping for a response from potential users. I did not think that Jim Lamb would be reading it and blog about Microsoft’s internal …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am just writing some handover documentation for our TFS deployment in the office. Thank goodness that I wrote installation and disaster recovery documents when I originally deployed the system, other wise this would have been a very long process. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been asking one of my colleagues for information on Sharepoint and how to deploy it to large organizations. He intoned that he new how not to do it and pointed me towards a particular post that defines a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
After my post on the new Tafiti search engine a fellow by the name of Anselm pointed out Search Crystal, another visual search engine that produces some good result. I did not get he same Wow that I did from Tafiti, but …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I just had to pick my jaw up off the floor. What made me gawk! Tafiti that’s what. Tafiti is a new search front end from Microsoft, it is still in beta, but what a beta. I think you would need …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Something I have noticed in writing an article is that the “Application diagram” in VS2008 does not support Windows Communication Foundation. This I think is an oversight even for Beta 2. Is this going to be in the RTM, I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have decided to have a little go at creating a Team Foundation Server Event Handler in .NET 3.5 that is resilient and scaleable. I will be using as many of the features of Team Suit as I can, but bear …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have decided to have a little go at creating a Team Foundation Server Event Handler in .NET 3.5 that is resilient and scaleable. I will be using as many of the features of Team Suit as I can, but …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Instead of using the proxy generation features of Visual Studio you can create a custom proxy in .NET 3.0 to handle all of your needs in a more maintainable manor and with less code. This method works best when you …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you are trying to get team server to talk to another Sharepoint farm this is something to watch out for. I fell into this one myself, and now my American colleagues have hot the same problem (I have changed …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been tinkering with VS2008 for a week now, but I had not had time to really look at it. They have made the interface slicker, and faster making the whole experience a little nicer. When you go to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I thought I should take a leaf out of Scott Dorman’s book and post some information about me: About Martin John Hinshelwood Martin Hinshelwood’s Resume Martin Hinshelwood’s LinkedIn Profile Martin Hinshelwood’s Community Credit I have tried to be concise, but I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I will be starting a new job in around a month and I wanted to get up-to-speed with the technologies that the new company want to be using. To start with I have had a look at a number of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, that’s me in my last month at Merrill Lynch after a nice run as a developer. My reasons for moving I have stated before, but I have decided that the contractor business is just too risky for me at …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you create your first project, you may get an error during the creation process. When you look at the log file and see a “proxy error” message detail it may be to do with the way that TFS installs. I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have just finished upgrading out TFS Development environment to TFS2008 and I have to say it was a totally painless procedure… The installation handles the upgrade perfectly (hopefully the RTM will work just as well) and I even created …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Rather than confuse the issue with my verbal dexterity (or excrement from my brain is more likely) I will quote from a source on the web: Dyslexia is an inherited condition. Researchers have determined that a gene on the short …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have upgraded and release some code for the managed service factory that I wrote about earlier in the year. I have started the internal documentation process and the installer will install it to the GAC so you can use …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was reading Mike Tautly’s post on SkyDrive so I thought I should have a look. I found it extremely easy to use and solves the problem of my blog not supporting file uploads. I have a link to my …