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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:42 PM

Display Current Bin Folder Content Information

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed. For some components, I can create a new instance of the control
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Monday, September 25, 2006 5:10 PM

Source Control Structure

How do you like to set up your source control for a project? My personal preference is sort of a work in progress, and I do not have a great deal of experience with branching and versioning, so my design doesn’t take this into account, but I would
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:48 AM

Microsoft Atlas Contest

I only mentioned the Made In Express Contest a few minutes ago and now I see there is a contest for Microsoft Atlas , their new AJAX / Web 2.0 framework. You have a chance to win an XBOX 360 premium and Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones! What is it? This
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:50 PM

Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects

ASP.NET now supports something called Web Deployment Projects , which are an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that is currently still in beta. You can download the installer from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/ I recently
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:12 AM

Does Microsoft Buy In To .NET?

Every now and then some high profile personality, perhaps one who once had close ties to Microsoft, about how .NET is really a total failure. How it's clear that it isn't going anywhere. That, as proof of these assertions, Microsoft cannot even manage
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:46 PM

Annoying Visual Studio Add Existing Project Behavior Solved

Using Visual Studio 2005, I set up a new solution the other day with a bunch of projects. The folder structure looks something like this: /Solution /Solution/Project1 /Solution/Project2 /Solution/Project3 However, one of the projects was originally in
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:40 PM

Continuous Integration Using Team System

I'd like to get continuous integration (CI) working for my TFS server here at the office as my next step. A little googling led to Khushboo's post on doing just this with the RC bits that I'm using at the moment. The instructions were pretty simple to
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Friday, March 10, 2006 12:53 PM

Team System Delete Project

If you need to delete a Team System Project you need to do it through a command line utility that is installed with Team Explorer. In my case, I created a test project but wanted to also test project deletion. There is no way to delete a project from
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Friday, March 10, 2006 10:28 AM

VSTS TFS Install Notes

As I wrote yesterday, I've just gone through my first real install of VSTS Team Foundation Server . For the most part it went without a hitch. A big part of that was due to the excellent documentation, which really must be followed step by step. Even
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:19 PM

VSTS Team Suite Product Key From MSDN

I noticed that my Visual Studio Team Suite install on my dev machine was down to less than 60 days for its trial. I'd completely forgotten that I'd installed it as a trial back in October or whatever when it was not quite RTM'd, so I threw in my MSDN
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:15 PM

VSTS Overview Talk at Wayne State University

I gave a presentation on Visual Studio Team System last night to about 30 students at Wayne State University in Detroit. I don’t think it was one of my better presentations, for a number of reasons, which I’ll lament here and attempt to improve
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:10 AM

VS 2005 Code Snippets

I've recently been learning more about code snippets in VS 2005, and I've found some nice resources online. Basically, if you haven't done anything with Code Snippets, they are a simple, extensible way for you to perform a relatively complex task within
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Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:34 PM

Coming Soon - Web Projects in VS 2005

Scott Guthrie has just posted an update on the new VS 2005 Web Application Project Template and VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects . You can always learn more about this project on his website dedicated to vs 2005 web projects . Says Scott: The refresh build
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:32 PM

C# Code Snippets

David Yack just pointed me to the C# Code Snippets that should have been in VS 2005 but weren't. Download them now from MSDN. C# Code Snippets David's also got them broken down by categories if you prefer. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:32 AM

Spring DevConnections Sessions

The next DevConnections conference will be held April 2-5, 2006 in Orlando, Florida at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort (where it has been a couple of times in recent years -- very nice hotel). I will be hosting three sessions, and for the first
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