Installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Windows Vista in 3 minutes
New in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to install TFS on XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can use SQL 2008 Express, so no large overhead, and the Basic version you use for this does have the reporting and SharePoint requirement that the main install does. That does not mean that you can’t upgrade later :)
Configuring Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Vista in 12 minutes
As Microsoft have separated Install with configuration, so I have separated my posts! You will need TFS2010 installed prior to the steps below.
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available Now!
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available on MSDN for download! With 2010 comes new SKU’s. Microsoft is trying to simplify the layout and features that you can get.
Wpf Scale Transform Behaviour
Although this post is called Scale Transform Behaviour you could use any transform / animation in its place. The purpose is to have a slider control in a menu be able to alter the scale of any number of controls within MVVM views.
Wpf Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider
You have probably heard me go on about Unity a couple of times: My.Unity.Resolve(Of Ninja) Unity and ASP.NET Creating a Data Access layer using Unity I have been using what is now unity since the good old days (sooo not true, WPF is the Windows Forms killer, and good riddance) of WindowsForms and CAB (Client Application Block), but now there is a lightweight alternative: Ninject .
Second blogger from my office
One of my colleagues is facing the maelstrom that is corporate blogjection and has become a geek with a blog . Have a heart as he is a poor under-paid support analyst who hits WAY above his pay grade.
Silverlight 3
Over the past week I have been reading the new book Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference from Wrox and I have found it one of the best books on Silverlight I have seen in a good while. It is concise without being boring and it provides a wealth of information on Silverlight 3.
Updating the Command Line Parser
I had previously created a Command Line Parser from Ray Hayes codeproject article Automatic Command Line Parsing in C# . I had adapted it to VB.NET and upgraded it to .NET 3.5 but I recently ran into the problem with wanting a single command prompt application to handle multiple processes and multiple parameters. This would allow you to group all of a particular tasks commands into a single application. With the advent of Power Shell this format is increasingly less relevant, but with the proliferation of Power Shell many people still prefer to use the good old command line.
Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour
A colleague of mine was having a bit of trouble getting drag and drop working in a way that fitted well with the MVVM pattern. This is really quite simple once you have a certain level of understanding of Patterns, but is a complete nightmare if you do not.
The long wait is over
Have you been waiting for a long time for Windows 7 ? Well I have.. I have been able to use Beta 1 and the RC for a good while now, and it surprised me that the Windows 7 Beta 1 was more stable, responsive and cleaner than Vista was after Service Pack 3.
