11 Jun
2008

Get Latest on Checkout is Satan

If you are running Team System, there is feature in the source control option in your project level settings that you should be aware of. Right click your team project in the Project Explorer window of Visual Studio. Go here: And get this screen. Why? Because if you have made some changes to a file […]

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4 Jun
2008

Tech Ed Developer 2008 Day 2

Elegant Code Cast With Ward Bell Ward Bell is the Vice President of Product Management at IdeaBlade, which makes a .Net ORM product called DevForce. I met Ward and had a great discussion about ORM solutions and the evolving world of ORM and business tier technologies from MS and others.  Ward was good enough to […]

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4 Jun
2008

Conchango’s Scrum Process Template 2.1 for Team System

I went to my favorite session of Tech Ed today, but it was for personal gratification reasons that I enjoyed this so much. I am so happy about the work coming out of Conchango that I could pop. Why? Because when I get home I have the task of implementing TFS 2008 for my organization […]

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3 Jun
2008

Tech Ed Developer 2008, Day 1

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Keynote by Bill Gates and a cast of Microsoft Executives Guess what? SilverLight, Visual Studio, Unified Communications, surface computing, and robots are going to save the earth. So will WCF. Brian Harry on TFS Now and Future This was a great session. I know we are all tired of hearing it, but Rosario really is […]

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9 Apr
2008

TFS Team Project Permissions Relief

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When creating a new Team Project in your Team Foundation Server, everything is nice and smooth right up until you get to the permissions of groups and individuals. This can be a real PITA because permissions must be set up in 3 separate places. Team Project level permissions within TFS itself The Share Point Portal […]

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16 Jan
2008

MVC at Boise NetDug Tomorrow Night

Anyone in the Boise area can come out and get a taste of the new ASP.Net MVC framework from Microsoft. I will be doing an hour or so on the MVC framework at the local .Net users group. Following the MVC talk, Martin Danner will be doing an hour or so on the fresh new […]

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