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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6 Apr
2008

ASP.Net HierarchicalDataSource<T>

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The Asp.net 2.0 tree control, as well as many 3rd party controls binds to hierarchical data via an IHierarchicalDataSource interface. Asp.net provides an implementation OOTB with the HierarchicalDataSourceControl! Easy, let?s hook that up to our? wait this control only takes data in xml format or from a sitemap? Hmm, we don?t want to convert our […]

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4 Apr
2008

Castle Windsor vs writing your own

Earlier this week I was in a meeting were someone stated that it was better to write your own IOC container than just using an existing one (the most excellent Castle Windsor in this case). I was just baffled to hear such statements. The argument for writing your own container was simplicity and the learning […]

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