Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7
I was a little lazy last time and did not install either Team Explorer, or SP1 on my visual studio instance. So, lets get to it…
Am I a stoner hippy?
In my email signature, and in the title of my blog, I have the phrase “multi-dimensional free thinker”, and I was recently pulled up for it… How do you “know” you are a “free thinker”? You can’t prove that maaaan – at least not to me! --Mark Buchner
Installing Windows 7
Installing Windows 7 is so similar to the Vista install it almost does not deserve a post on it, but as I did not do a Vista install post, and I am waiting for the install to complete, I though you should see, erm…. the nice new colours…
Installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite on Windows 7
I am installing VS2008 in a virtual environment, so this may not be exactly what you would get, but the purpose is to identify if VS2008 does indeed work on Windows 7 and what the experience is like.
Windows 7 Beta is Live!
If you have an MSDN account you will be able to download Windows 7 Beta today, but it should be available for anyone by the end of next week.
Learning more about Visual Studio 2008
Well, that’s me well and truly back from my holidays, a nice relaxing couple of weeks spent at home with my family. As a kind of New Years present, Microsoft has released a free learning initiative for those of you that are or will be using Visual Studio 2008. I am taking it myself as a way to make sure that I have not missed anything :)
Microsoft Answer for the end-user
Up until now the only avenue for your average Vista user for support was to trawl the MSDN Forums, Technet Forums and the Support site for some elusive piece of information that is buried among all that technical BS that we teckies like to call help.
Managing the “VSTS Developers” LinkedIn group.
After making sending a “Call to Action” to my fellow Team System MVP’s I have added two managers to the VSTS Developers group I started on LinkedIn.
Does test-driven development speed up development?
If only I could be as eloquent as Scott. His recent post on “ Does test-driven development speed up development? ” really gets to the crux of an endemic problem in the Software Development industry, especially in companies for whom Software Development is not their core business.
Removing a dead Solution Deployment from MOSS 2007
If, like me, you tried to deploy a solution to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it ether failed or hung you will need to remove it somehow. But once the status has moved to “deploying”, if you receive an error like this:
