Merry Christmas
With many people skipping off early for their holly bags, me included.. I thought I should send this out now… Send your own ElfYourself eCards
SkyDrive: 25 GB of free online storage
Some of the new Windows Live Wave 3 services have gone live over the last couple of days. One of the best IMO is the SkyDrive services , updated to 25GB and with complete integration with other services like Photo Share , Connect to people …
Live Framework
I have been getting very interested in the new Azure Services Platform and how I can use it to facilitate WPF development.
TFS Event Handler v1.3 released
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users.
Retrieving an identity from Team Foundation Server using only the display name
This is a lot harder than it sounds. At first you think there will be a built in option with the Read Identities method on the IGroupSecurityService Interface, but you would be wrong!
TFS Event Handler v1.1 released
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR Installation
First, download the new Data Dude. Download page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Setup http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/setup.exe Read Me http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Readme.mht Documentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Documentation.zip Once you get it going the install is pretty easy. Things to watch out for are:
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR has been released!
What a mouthful! Has there ever been any products with names as long as the Team System toolset ;), Maybe thats why it is just called Data Dude .
Least opportune time.
Here I am slogging my guts out, trying to get TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0 out the door and bang goes the TFS server :(
Windows Live ID and OpenID
It seams that Microsoft is making an attempt to integrate with OpenID. With the announcement that “ Windows Live ID commits to support of OpenID ” I thought a little investigation would be in order.
