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Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:27 PM

Frustrated

I don´t know about everyone else using Atlas, but I do LOVE it. It makes lots of difficult Web UI handling tasks very easy. But today I got really frustrated. I have an update panel that has a wizard inside of it. Basically what it does is collect info
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:20 AM

Getting the List of Team Foundation Areas and Paths

James Manning just blogged about a tool Grant Holliday built that gives you the area paths and area URI's. I ran across another tool written by Grant Holliday (of TFS Bug Snapper 1.0 and Clipboard Image Monitor fame) today - one to use the CSS part of
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:01 AM

WF: Windows Workflow Foundation

Yeah, I know that´s a strange acronym and that it should be WWF, but what would it be of WWF , then? :) Anyway, kidding aside, Scott Guthrie just blogged about WF (yes, him again!). His post has a lot of information and links to great WF articles. Workflow
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:01 PM

Finally!

Finally the XNA Team released the XNA Game Studio Express for download. If you do enjoy games you are sure to download this one. For more on the XNA Framework read this blog entry . For more on the XNA Content Pipeline read this blog entry . The content
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Monday, August 28, 2006 3:34 PM

MCSD IS HERE!!!

Just got my MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) . You are probably wondering why I got this if I work with .Net 2.0. Well for a couple reasons: First, I still have to work for some 1.1 projects, and it´s nice for the customers of our company
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Monday, August 28, 2006 3:25 PM

VSTS Links

Mickey Gousset just published on the Team System Rocks blog a new VSTS Links Compilation. Lots of good stuff: The Visual Studio Team System User Education blog on New Team Build Customization Content on MSDN . Andres Lynes on Refocusing "Remaining Work"
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Friday, August 25, 2006 6:28 PM

Atlas Videos

Scott Guthrie blogged about the whole new list of videos about the Atlas Framework that Joe Stagner published. If you are not addicted to Atlas as I am you should view all the videos and learn how to build a more responsive and user-friendly UI. Joe Stagner
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:15 PM

Beta 4 of Ascend.Net

The Ascend.Net Team (creators of the controls about which I blogged here ) have released their Beta 4. Click here to get this release . Release Change Log 2442 Add ForeColor to GradientPanel 2441 Add Font to GradientPanel 2357 Test beta 4 install 2440
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:30 AM

Writing Custom Check-in Policies for TFS

A while back Jeff Atwood posted in his blog an amazing post about custom check-in policies. First he showed us the code to implement the custom policy here . And then he packed a nice install utility for us here . As it turns out it´s actually pretty
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:10 PM

Branching and Merging Practices

Joel Semeniuk just pointed in his blog to a great article about branching and merging best practices. Very good article - http://www.seapine.com/pub/papers/SCMBranchingMode... Technorati Tags: SCC - SCM - Source - Control - Management - TFS - Team - System
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:00 PM

Jason Barile on Team Project Granularity

Rob Caron just pointed on a post by Jason Barile about Team Project Granularity . This subject is a common issue and one that we had here in the company I work for. Should we use Team Projects by Customer? Or by Product? Or by Product Family? We ended
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Monday, August 21, 2006 4:04 PM

Speedtest.Net

I just read in Rob Caron ´s blog about the SpeedTest.Net service. It´s a great service that let´s you test the speed of your connection against several providers in all seven seas (pushed it too hard, ok I admit it!). You must try this service out, even
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Monday, August 21, 2006 12:38 PM

TFS amazed me again

The Team Foundation Server continues to amaze me. This weekend we did a terrible mistake here. We were trying to extend the Sharepoint Services Website in IIS with the new Sharepoint Server Extensions, but instead of extending the Sharepoint web site,
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Friday, August 18, 2006 6:01 PM

How to use Microsoft Project to Manage Projects with TFS

Sanjay Narang just published in his blog a killer post about how to integrate Microsoft Project and TFS . I keep getting questions and comments for my article, “Combine Microsoft Project and Visual Studio Team System for a One-two Punch of Productivity”.
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Friday, August 18, 2006 4:00 PM

Custom Pagind and Navigating to the Last Page

Scott Mitchell just published another great set of Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials. It´s a must read for every .Net 2.0 Framework developer out there. My latest set of Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials focused on paging and sorting
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:20 PM

MCAD Certification

Just got my MCAD Certification after achieving 94% score in the 070-316 Exam . I´m really happy, but not satisfied. I´m getting the MCSD Certification next, and after that the MCTS and MCPD ones. Technorati Tags: MCAD - MCSD - MCTS - MCPD - Certification
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:01 PM

Visual Studio Team System Links

Well, actually this is yesterday´s news, but I´m posting it anyway. Mickey Gousset has published in the Team System Rocks blog a list of interesting links about VSTS . VSTS Links - 08/16/2006 Buck Hodges on TFS Extensibility documentation on MSDN and
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:05 AM

ADO.Net VNext First CTP Released

Sam Gentile just published in his blog the release of the First CTP of the new ADO.Net . This is really awesome as this is the first ADO.Net to directly use LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) . You can download it here , and the documentation can be found
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:57 AM

Windows Live Writer + Technorati Tags

Keyvan Nayyeri created a really cool plugin for Windows Live Writer , the Technorati Tags plugin . This plugin helps you to add Technorati Tags to your post. These tags are added in the end of each post and help you get more traffic to your blog. What
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:26 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Designer Bug

I just found a bug in VS 2005. Actually this is the first bug I found and I've been using the 2005 version of VS since it's beta 3. The bug displays the following message when you try to access the designer for a form in a windows application: One or
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:26 AM

Very Nice Job

Today´s post (hopefully only the first) is not about technology, but it relates to one of the most influential and the richest man alive, Mr. William Gates III. I was reading an article today and the guy at the article finished it thanking Bill and Melinda
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Monday, August 14, 2006 5:13 PM

Via Virtual Earth

Today I found out that Microsoft provides the .Net developers with a great tool for displaying maps in our applications. If you would like to know more about it just point your browser to http://viavirtualearth.com/VVE/Promos/GetStarted.a... . Some pictures
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Monday, August 14, 2006 3:01 PM

TFS Customization Links

Buck Hodges just published on his blog a great list of links for TFS Customization Code Samples . He says the list isn´t comprehensive, but I think it is hehehe. If you are building a TFS Customization tool (like I do with Vertigo ) you definitely should
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Monday, August 14, 2006 2:39 PM

My First Live Writer Post

Since Steve St. Jean told me about Windows Live Writer , I decided to give it a go. I´m writing this post in it, and it ROCKS! It´s really cool. I´ll certify myself later that Microsoft will keep this wonderful tool free. It allows me to insert links,
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Monday, August 14, 2006 12:34 PM

Windows Live Writer

Steve St. Jean ( http://sstjean.blogspot.com/ ) just pointed me to another great post by Rob Caron ( http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/ ). Today the beta of Windows Live Writer was released. I´m giving it a try right now! I´ll tell more later. I started
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Friday, August 11, 2006 2:42 PM

One more step towards MCAD

Some personal news today... I just passed the Exam 70–320 *: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework with a score of 860. I´m very happy and I only need Exam 70–316 *: Developing and
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Friday, August 11, 2006 10:05 AM

Vertigo is Here!!! (Or at least the Alpha 0.2)

No, I´m not talking about the U2 tour, hehehe. Vertigo is the codename for a really cool project on CodePlex named TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser, coordinated by Michael Ruminer ( http://blog.magenic.com/michaelr ) and of which I am a proud participant.
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Friday, August 11, 2006 9:27 AM

MVP - A Basic Demonstration of it´s Power

Well, this time the post is my own. I´m thrilled by how the Model-View-Presenter Pattern (MVP) is helping me on the "Get-Filters on Wizard, Show-Result" type of report I´m doing on work right now. So after grasping a little bit more of how MVP works,
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:13 PM

Continuous Integration

Buck Hodges posted on Continuous Integration using TFS. In this post he shows a must-have tool called "Automaton" by Sondre Bjellås . This tool is a framework for CI with TFS. It tells you about Successful builds, lets you retry failed builds, shows you
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:26 PM

MSBuild on Visual Studio

Eran Kampf published on his blog a list of great articles by the MSBuild Team. The list is very comprehensive and should be of interest to anyone who wants to enable Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server. Read Kampf´s post... And while reading
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:45 PM

Tyner Blain on Quality and Requirements

Tyner Blain just wrote a great article on how to effectively identify requirements and the most common pitfalls in doing so here . In his article he examines what should be done in order to effectively master the "art" of requirement writing and he points
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:16 PM

ASP.Net Best Practices Analyzer

While browsing the Visual Studio Power Toys website (see my previous post), I just found a great piece of software that I never heard of. The ASP.Net Best Practices Analyzer . This amazing tool can be run against your ASP.Net website to help you identify
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:52 PM

Power Toys for Visual Studio

Rob Caron posted on his blog updates to the Visual Studio Power Toys. Several power toys have been updated, as he states below: If you haven't visited it, the Power Toys for Visual Studio site is the place to go for information about the various power
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:45 PM

TechEd 2006 US Team System PowerPoint Slides

Rob Caron just posted on his blog the links for all the TechEd 2006 US Team System PowerPoint slides. For Caron´s post click here . (The following is a transcription of his post) While I was out on vacation, the PowerPoint slides from the Team System
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Monday, August 07, 2006 10:19 AM

Maximum Number of Projects on Team Foundation Server

Eugene.z just published on his blog that the TFS has a limitation of 500 team projects. This is by design. It makes me wonder why did MS do that. Even knowing that 500 projects is a HUGE number of projects and that probably 99.9% of the companies won´t
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Friday, August 04, 2006 11:24 PM

Team System Product Documentation Updated

Rob Caron just posted in his blog the documentation updates for Team System. That's big news for everyone out there that works with Team System. If you can think of any useful documentation that isn't already in the VSTS Product Documentation, please
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Friday, August 04, 2006 10:36 AM

Atlas July CTP: AWESOME NEWS!!!

Scott Guthrie just announced on his blog that ASP.Net codename "Atlas" has it´s July CTP release! And so does the Atlas Control Toolkit. One of the many great news is that the Atlas Control Toolkit now has five new controls. DynamicPopulate, FilteredTextBox,
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Friday, August 04, 2006 10:33 AM

ASP.Net Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

Today´s ASP.Net website hint of the day just pointed out a good article on MSDN: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls This article points out 10 common mistakes ASP.Net coders do and how to avoid them. It´s a must read,
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:42 PM

Windows Forms UI Controls

Let me point out to one of the coolest projects on CodePlex (if you don't know about CodePlex, do a favor to yourself and read about it here: Rob Caron´s post about CodePlex ). This project is called Ascend.Net and is a set of controls for windows forms
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 5:15 PM

Sharepoint 2007 and Script#

Today´s post is a mixed one. First I´d like to express my astonishment with Sharepoint 2007. It´s a major advancement in one of the greatest products on Microsoft portfolio. The wiki part that I always felt it was missing in other Sharepoint versions
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:30 PM

Randy Miller on Writing Scenarios

Rob Caron just pointed out in his blog a great series of articles that just started. Randy Miller started a four-part series of posts on writing scenarios. The first post is about the most fundamental step, identifying the scenarios. I get many questions
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:27 PM

Enterprise Case Study of TFS

Michael Ruminer linked to a great article / document by Microsoft in his blog. Bravo to Brian Harry and the team that put together the whitepaper Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server as an Enterprise-Wide Service Technical Case Study .
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:55 PM

MVP

Currently I´m involved in an ASP.Net MVP project involving an ASP:Wizard. Everything is coming so smooth that I´m actually able to unit test every single aspect of the wizard (it´s a GetFilters-ShowGraph kind of wizard). I´ll get in more detail in a while.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:51 PM

Finally commited to write!

Finally I got my own blog running. Kudos to Michael Ruminer ( http://blog.magenic.com/michaelr ) for creating it for me. Well I´ll be writing more about the Vertigo project I´m involved as well. This week I´d probably have more time for working on it
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