Loss of My.User.Name is not that bad...
Imports System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement In WPF development you can’t just use the “My.User.Name” classes as it is not set by default. If you still want to use it you can “My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser()” to have it setup, but there is a better way.
TFS Sticky Buddy POC (WPF) release
You can now Download the TFS Sticky Buddy windows presentation foundation proof of concept demo from the Codeplex site.
TFS Sticky Buddy POC (WinForms) release
You can now Download the TFS Sticky Buddy windows forms proof of concept demo from the Codeplex site.
TFS Sticky Buddy layout fun...
I had a lot of fun trying to lay out my TFS Sticky Buddy project using Windows Forms, and eventually decided that it was way to fiddle doing it in a Forms based application. It was not just that tables and panels don’t work as I expected, but that there were way to many bits that were more difficult than they should be. This is mostly down to my inexperience and down right ineptitude with graphics and UI’s, but it still should not be this hard.
TFS Sticky Buddy Codeplex project
I hade been looking with envy at the digital whiteboard experiment , and with dismay at the lack of open source for the project. So… I will be creating a version of the Sticky Buddy idea that will run off Team Foundation Server and allow teams to display information on the status of their development on one or many projects.
I always wanted to be an Admiral!
Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You? Having just watched the entire 3rd series and waiting with bated breath for the 4th and final season, I could not resist this quiz…
The SharePoint Plan: Database move headache mitigation
SharePoint requires SQL Server. That’s a given, but what if you want to move the SQL Server databases to another server? TFS is easy enough to move between servers, but SharePoint is NOT. The only answer I can find is to do a full backup and restore from SharePoint, which takes time and effort.
Setting up SharePoint for the Enterprise
I currently have the task of setting up SharePoint Portal for my company. But here is the kicker, they have users in almost every country in the world, so how to structure the deployment.
New Event Handlers
I have added an extra event handler to the TFS Event Handler (Prototype) , and this makes two. Assigned To Handler The Assigned to handler send a users an email when a work item is assigned to them unless they did the assigning themselves.
Kerberos and SharePoint 2007
If you want to use Kerberos authentication and not NTLM with SharePoint then there are some extra tasks that you need to get someone with Domain Admin privileges to perform. For EVERY dns / port combination a SPN needs to be added to Active Directory to tell it that it is allowed to use Kerberos to authenticate a specific account or server to that URL. In a production environment with a farm of multiple server you will need to use the account option.
