Presenting Aplication Lifecycle Management: Precursor
I am doing a presentation this afternoon on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This is the first time that I have ever presented on this topic, and I found out that I was doing it on Friday!
A problem with Diarist 2!
{Rant} I think that it would be good to remove the drop down to select your blog from the main blog writing page. I tapped it by mistake when I was trying to select a piece of text and lost my whole post…
Team Build Error
I received a confusing error from MS Build on Friday. I assumed that it was a GDR version issue for the top level message:
Visual Studio 2008 and the GDR CTP16
Well we have been having a few problems with the GDR . Essentially when we import our database it complains about dependencies. We have many stored procedures that call stored procedures that call stored procedures! This seams to give the GDR fits. Maybe we are doing something that we are not supposed to, but SQL does not complain.
Found GDR Bug: At least I think it is.
This is not isolated to GDR, but seams to exist in Data Dude as well. If you create the following SQL: 1: CREATE VIEW [dbo].[v_SomeView] AS 2: SELECT [BH].[Col1], 3: [BH].[Col2], 4: [BH].[Col3], 5: [BH].[Col4], 6: [BH].[Col5], 7: CASE WHEN [BHPP].[OtherCol1] IS NULL THEN -1 ELSE 1 END As [Col6], 8: CASE WHEN [BHPP].[OtherCol1] IS NULL THEN 'Not Applicable' ELSE 'PowerPack' END As [Col7], 9: CASE WHEN [BHPP].[OtherCol1] IS NULL THEN [BH].[Col5] ELSE [BHPP].[OtherCol2] END As [Col8] 10: FROM [dbo].[Table1] as [BH] 11: LEFT JOIN (SELECT [OtherCol1], [OtherCol2], [OtherCol3] 12: FROM [$(CMD)].[dbo].[Table2] 13: WHERE [OtherCol1] <> -1) as [BHPP] 14: ON [BH].[Col2] = [BHPP].[Col2] And add it to your Database project, but using proper table names :) You will get the following error for every use of [BHPP]:
TFS Sticky Buddy Update
The Sticky Buddy has been updated to fix the following problems: VotesIDTitle22598Application has stopped responding" when Logging into CodePlex and a Domain is not entered in the UserName field12630Handle large number of work items in the node display This means that if you run TFS Sticky Buddy from now you should get v1.6.
LINQ to XSD
Absolutely brilliant. That’s what I think of Linq to XSD. Disappointed that is only works in C#, but having to use C# for a single project out of a solution it is a small price to pay to get the functionality.
Installing Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
After I got my computer rebuilt (due to Problems with Team Explorer after installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM ) I did not reinstall IE8 Beta 1 as I knew that Beta 2 was soon to be available.
Cool new feature in IE8
It may be simple, and it may be small, but the feature that hit me first and greatest in IE8 was the address bar enhancements. This feature alone would have me upgrading:
Compatibility view in IE8
If you were worried about your pages viewing correctly in IE8 Beta 1 you had to restart your browser to enable “IE7 Compatibility mode”. Now it is easy:
