by Martin Hinshelwood
If you have a small company, say 6 to 30 people, you will look at team server and think, cool…But what does it cost. Well, there are a number of costs, some hidden that you will need to pay. The bad …
by Martin Hinshelwood
View Full Question and Answers: Would anyone be interested in hosted Visual Studio Team System I have been thinking about the potential take-up of a private hosted Visual Studio Team System for small companies! This would be …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am thinking of adding WF support to my Team Foundation Server Event Handler, but I am interested in a discussion on the topic of the how’s and wherefores. I have seen a lot of people implementing Workflow for Team …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am making lots of progress with this project and I have only a couple of work items left for CTP1: 138 Security issues on uploaded assemblies 203 Error handling on service 204 Create Admin system as Application Now 204 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have decided to go the same root as MS and use the Community Technology Preview (CTP) structure for my releases as there are quite a few people interested in using the TFS Event Handler. I am working this week …
by Martin Hinshelwood
After my success with Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server I now find myself thinking that I should get my developer exams sorted. I had never done them before as I would have had to pay …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Developers fall into two categories with regard to building solutions: Envisioners (Research) Envisioners can build complicated code in their head and develop complex proof-of-concept demos. They usually know all about the new technologies and can use them as soon as …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am getting some positive feedback on the project from Richard Berg, and he had blogged about it under the title of New CodePlex project: TFS Event Handler. And John Lambert has commented on some issues that he has envisioned with referenced assemblies …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am half way through the MSMQ Refactor of my TFS Event Handler project and thing are starting to come together. I have changed it so that instead of one big solution I will have three smaller ones. This will allow …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have now added my Team Foundation Server EventHandler to CodePlex, but don’t get too exited as I am currently mid refractor. I am moving to the more reliable Message Queuing for the system, and probably moving it to a Windows …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was hoping for anything else! Thanks Mickey…Technorati Tags: Personal
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have found that there is very little content available on the art of selling Team System for developers that want to use it. Developers need to sell it not only to their manager, but to a hole host of people, and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As I mentioned in my previous post I am currently building an EventHandler infrastructure for Team Foundation Server. I am currently toying with the idea of re-engineering to two system services. The first that handles the Team Foundation Server events …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Will, not really… I work for a rather large organization and I wanted an easy way for power users of team system to deploy event handlers for the Team Foundation Server events. Essentially they create an assembly with as many …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You can find all the blogs for the Microsoft team for Visual Studio in one place. A nice little list, it does not have all the community blogs, but then you would need a search facility… http://msdn2.Microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa7187…Technorati Tags: ALM
by Martin Hinshelwood
Just got my exam result for the exam, and I passed! This is a single exam certification so it makes me a MCP as well as and MCTS: Team Foundation Server. The next step to embark on my MCPD: Enterprise …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I want to send a .NET assembly as either an System.Reflection.Assembly or as a string over the wire through a Windows Communication Foundation web service. It seems that the class System.Reflection.Assembly can serialize, but is unable to deserialize at …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Yesterday I visited the Strathclyde University campus to see a half day session from Microsoft’s Mike Taulty. It was very informative, and although I have been developing in .NET 3.0 for around three months there were some areas that I was …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The one thing I do not like about the mobile device center is that it can’t sync with the built in windows vista components (Contacts, Calendar and email). This is, I think, a deficiency in the product. I would have …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I ran into some problems that I blogged on in my TeamPlain – Install and initial views post. I have got a work around for the long project name problem, but it only works when you really daft project names like …