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by Martin Hinshelwood
This subject goes back over a number of posts: Team Foundation Server & SharePoint 3.0 Setting up TFS to create project portals as child sites of an existing SharePoint 3.0 site (or sub site) SharePoint 3.0 TFS Sub-Site creation error. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I had a plan. I wanted to create a way of accessing services in multiple locations from any location. Each location could have one or more services which may be duplications or different. That is a really abstract way of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There are a number of config options for the TFS Event Handler Prototype. I will describe all of them in depth here. The first step is to set the Windows Communication Foundation service options, which really only requires you to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As promised I have released the application and code for my prototype TFS Event Handler. I am currently working on the documentation, but I though I would give the bravest of you advanced notice of the release. You should be …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Creating an event handler with the Team Foundation Server Event Handlers is very easy. You will need to inherit from the AEventHandler class which is part of RDdotNet.TeamFoundation.dll located in the install directory (I will make an SDK later). Imports …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Due to a number of reasons: My wife is due to give birth this week some time I only have access to TFS at work, and my development time has been cut down. I’m lazy… The first CTP of the Team …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Get yours here. My programmer personality type is: DLTB You’re a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well my sub site investigation did not go too well! After consulting with blogs, forums and Microsoft the end result is that it will not work in an automated way. You can’t create a sub site to and existing site …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have just been made aware of a new (‘ish) service. It allows you to verify the identity of those users you interact with online. This is a very usefully service for any online site or community where users are …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If, like me you are a fan of Pocked PC mobile phones you will have something like the Orange SPV 3100. Like me you will probably not really rate these devices as phones, but it beats carrying multiple technobits in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been working with Team Foundation Server for around a year now and I am still finding features and I am still amazed at the extensibility of the system. The core of this extensibility is the aggressively configurable process …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have just looked at the Surface first look site and I am truly amazed! I want one, really badly… I have been envisioning something like this for years and I am delighted that Microsoft is the one that has …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As you will know from my previous post I have been trying to get TFS to create sub sites in SharePoint 3.0. I now have the hotfix specified by Brian Keller for my Team Explorer client that allows me to communicate …
by Martin Hinshelwood
TFS Event Handler This tool would run on the TFS server and capture all of the soap events being generated by Team Server. These would then be passed to the Event Handler Manger that would send the event to all of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I spoke to Brian Keller about Connecting TFS to a SharePoint 3.0 sub site… His answer? Try it and see. So I did. I updated the dev server with the details I provided in my previous post and Manually created …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have managed to install SharePoint 3.0 on my dev Team server box in side by side mode by using Brian Keller’s blog on “Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0”. I have not yet …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When coding against team foundation server you must be aware that some of the exceptions thrown by Team Foundation Server are not Serilisable! I think that this was an oversite by Microsoft, but it is there none the less. An …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you want to create a Windows Communication Foundation Service Host on the fly then you will need to first create a base address. I would recommend using the DNS host entry instead of the My.Computer.Name as I had many …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The think that always annoys me with web services is that when you connect to it and generate the proxy it always generates proxies for all of the extra classes and interfaces as well, even when you have them available. This …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am finding a lot of people who are having problems with the speed of Team Foundation Server! I have to say, that I have had none of these problems and I use both a locally hosted team server and CodePlex …