VS2010/.NET4 Coming March 22nd In case you haven’t heard, VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 are officially scheduled for release on March 22nd. If you’re into playing with Betas (I know I am) and have an MSDN subscription you can go download it now. Those of you without subscriptions will need to wait about a week or so. What I […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Getting a distinct list of changed files from TFS using PowerShell If you’re like me and need to do code-reviews of other people’s stuff or maybe you just want to see everything that’s changed during a certain period of a project, then here’s a nice PowerShell tip for you. First, make sure you’ve downloaded the latest version of the Team Foundation Powertools. Starting with the October […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VS 2005 SP1 in September Guess we can look forward to the first service pack for VS 2005 in Sept. For details, check out this page over on MSDN. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Can’t wait for VSTE for DB Pros! Run, don’t walk, over to Channel9 and check out this awesome demonstration of all the capabilities of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Then click here to download the latest CTP which was released last week. While database projects weren’t amazing in VS2003, I was extremely frustrated that they absolutely crippled the feature in VS2005. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
WPF MSDN Browser Inspired by Craig’s MSDNMan, Ian has created an MSDN browser with WPF. If, like me, you read a ton of MSDN content every day, both of these tools are extreeeemely welcome additions to browsing the online content or using the installed version of the content. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Team Build: Get only changesets and work items related to a subfolder in a project There are a couple ways to approach structuring your Team Projects depending on what you want to accomplish (see the answer to the “Should I create a team project per application or per release?” in the FAQ). Consider the per application scenario, where you have a single Team Project with multiple trunks per-version: $/My Project |- […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Web Application Projects for Visual Studio 2005 Released Microsoft’s mea cupla for screwing up the web project model with the Web Site Project type has been released. We’ve been using it here at Mimeo ever since we started our 2.0/2005 migration and had great success wth it even in the beta stages. The differences between RC1 and Release are surprisingly big, but I […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Limitation with Team Build with respect to TestRunConfigs I made a post to the Team Build forums about two weeks ago about the inability to use multiple .testrunconfig settings in a Team Build and, unfortunately, haven’t heard back from anyone on it yet. So I figured I’d post it here in case anyone else is stumbles across the limitation and is looking for help. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VSS -> TFVC Conversion Completed So Mimeo has officially made the shift to VS 2005/.NET 2.0 this weekend. Part of that was cutting over to Team Foundation Server completely. We’ve been using TFS for about a month now with great success, but we’ve only been using the Work Item Tracking features thus far. This weekend, I finally migrated our Visual Source […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Release Builds with PDBs in 2005…? It’s late and I’m definitely overtired and getting that halo effect around my monitor, but… am I missing something or does VS 2005 give you no way to do PDBOnly builds through the IDE? Well, in any case I made it do it by editing the csproj, which is just an MSBuild file, by hand. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
