by Martin Hinshelwood
Some of my colleagues in New York have been working on deploying Team Foundation Server as a change management system and they ran into a little error while installing to the QA (UAT) environment. Log file excerpt: 08/08/07 10:59:33 DDSet_Status: …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I had spotted these updates last night in a post by Robert McLaws and decided, what the heck, I’ll give it a go… I had no trouble installing the updates, but they do take a while and require a reboot, but …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Steve Clements has tagged me (thanks Steve) about how to become a better developer, he thinks tagging me ‘would make an interesting read’..Hmm, no pressure: Actually study for my MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer like I said I would. I posted earlier in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The reasons I think that VB.NET is better than C# are many, but I will try to put some of them down in a coherent manor unlike the usual C# developer that can only come up with “vb is a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Yet more evidence that VB is superior to C# from Mike Taulty… 🙂 Technorati Tags: .NET
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have posted about Hosted Team Foundation server before and I have had a few discussions with Jon Pratt from the Microsoft UK Development Tools Team on the subject. The issue with Hosted TFS is that there is no real partitioning …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am very encouraged by Brain Harry’s blog on dogfooding at Microsoft. In my battles to get my company to use Team Foundation Server I recently contacted the manager of the most highly regarded development team in the company. Apart …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This week I installed Office Mobile 2007 on my Windows Mobile 6 (Black Shadow) SPV M3100, and I have to say, what changed? I can now see my RSS Feeds as part of Outlook Mobile 2007, but apart from that the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I just got a comment from Reto Winter to let me know about a post regarding a new Microsoft Avatar service on MSN China, so as I am sitting here writing some posts anyway, I will have a look. It is in the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In my company it is the job of someone in business technology to manage production applications. Personally I think that this is a job for a Project Manager, not a developer, as it is about management and is not particularly technical. You do …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Why is it that vendors insist on developers staying up all night to write installation documentation for a 40 component on 19 server installation? Do they not realize that this is not the best way to have your documentation produced? …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The biggest vindication of your .Net developer status would be if Microsoft wanted to employ you! And it happened to me… I recently blogged about maybe being interested in a career change, and Siddharth Bhatia, a Group Program Manager from Microsoft …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you want to have you city displayed in the HTC Weather Home screen then you need to do some editing! My colleague Ajay just purchased a HTC Touch yesterday from Orange and he was upset that Glasgow was not …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Just found a new services from Microsoft called Soapbox. It is similar to YouTube, but I assumed it would be implemented using Silverlight. But as it turns out, its Flash! Boo…. Video: The Fish Diet Looks good and works …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This is a little more representative of me than the Simpsonize one! Thanks Will… Technorati Tags: Personal MOSS SharePoint
by Martin Hinshelwood
Brian Harry has just announced the release of Team System Web Access the next incarnation of DevBiz’s TeamPlain product. I have just completed installing it on our development servers and I like it. It has much nicer features than TeamPlain 1.0 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Scott Miller alerted my to this with his post about 4 days ago, and I have finally got it working: Me as a Simpson!Technorati Tags: Personal
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I now have Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit installed on my laptop, but I have just realized that Team Explorer is not provided as part of the installation (same as VS2005). This is irritating as now I need to download …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As you may have seen from my previous post, I have just installed VS2008B2 onto my old work computer, well it is now time to hit my Vista laptop with it: I just tried to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit on …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The first problem I have encountered in that in the past I have had various version of Office 2007 beta and other bits and bobs. You will need to remove these to install Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. If your …