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September 2006 - Posts

Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:33 PM

Essay on Development of Customized Software - Survival of the Fittest, not the Fattest

The Research & Development area of expertise is confined today to giants on the software development industry. The purpose of this discipline is to research the processes that drive the company and develop tools (hence the R&D name) that enhance
Posted by heynemann | 4 Comments
Friday, September 29, 2006 2:50 AM

Application to Get WorkItem Change Notifications

The UI is almost ready, as is the configuration part (where you can save several TFS configurations and what Team Projects you are checking out. Just a teaser of the UI as of now. I set my UI with two CodePlex projects called Project BHAL (CodePlex) and
Posted by heynemann | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:17 AM

Project BHAL and a great tool!

Project BHAL was a little abandoned while I was building the WorkItem Object Mapper . Now I´m using it as a stage for WOM. So far I already found one issue on WOM that I corrected last night. First let me explain what I´m doing on BHAL as of now. I coordinate
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:53 AM

WorkItem Object Mapper (WOM) Activity Ranking

According to the CodePlex Statistics RSS feed, WOM was the 6th most active project this week. Most Active Projects Phalanger - The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework SharpMap - OpenSource Map Engine for .NET 2.0 SameDesk Desenvolvimento Open
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:40 AM

Dr. Frankenstein

I´m feeling like Dr. Frankenstein right now! Finally HE LIVES!!! The WIQL query generator is ready and it passed the following (hard, come on!) unit test: 1: DateTime targetDate = DateTime.ParseExact( 2: DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1).ToString( "dd/MM/yyyy"
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:53 PM

New Url

Besides the current URL ( http://blogs.manicprogrammer.com/heynemann ) I added an easier redirection to my blog at http://blog.dentsoft.com.br . Please feel free to use the one that´s easier. Technorati: URL , Redirection
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Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:37 PM

WOM Project Samples

I just posted at the Samples Page in the Project Wiki , some samples on how to build your own object model for WorkItems and on how to use the included CodePlex Object model to interact with CodePlex´s WorkItems. I´ve included how to setup your configuration
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Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:44 AM

Project WOM - WorkItem-Object Mapper

Project WOM just got it´s first release ! It´s a huge landmark in the project since this is the release that showed that IT´S POSSIBLE to build a type-safe layer on top of the WorkItem store. As I know that most of my readers (are you there? say hello?
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Friday, September 22, 2006 12:18 AM

SandCastle - Yes it works!

RANK UPDATE ON PROJECT BHAL: 34th. on Popularity in CodePlex The series of articles keep coming! The series of the First Iteration will be: Continuous Integration with CodePlex - How, Tricks and Results SandCastle - Yes it works! Connection to TFS and
Posted by heynemann | 3 Comments
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:24 PM

Continuous Integration with CodePlex - How, Tricks and Results

As I said in the previous posts , I´m very involved with Project BHAL , mainly because I´m really excited about it and because I love to learn new stuff. And as I also said in my "project envision" post , I´m deploying articles as the releases keep coming.
Posted by heynemann | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): XmlLoggers.zip
Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:33 PM

Project BHAL Version 1.01 Released

This release is just iteration 1 release (which btw is archived now), plus a few minor changes . Hopefully you will all try it out and report A LOT of feedback! You can check release 1.01 here . UPDATE: Project BHAL is the 40th in the rank of CodePlex
Posted by heynemann | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:41 AM

Project BHAL Iteration 1 Released!

I´m really really proud to release iteration one in such a small timeframe. I just worked in the project for two days of spare time (about 8hrs or so) and accomplished a lot in the areas of learning the technology, implementing the iteration requirements,
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:39 PM

September Atlas Control Toolkit Released!

As Scott Guthrie blogged about , Atlas Control Toolkit just got updated. Four new awesome controls have been added to it and it´s absolutely incredible what the team is doing with this project. You can check out more at http://atlas.asp.net/atlastoolkit/
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Monday, September 18, 2006 4:53 PM

Project BHAL Team - Join Today

As you can see, I´m asking for help (politely, come on! lol) for Project BHAL . I´m asking for help not because I don´t think I won´t be able to do it, but instead because I´m so excited about it that I believe it to be a GREAT opportunity for other people
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Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:20 PM

CodePlex and .Net 3.0 Environment Configuration

In my new project wiki I´ve included a quickstart guide to configuring your environment for developing with CodePlex and .Net 3.0. This guide is really good since it relates in one document packages you should get, tools that will help you and how to
Posted by heynemann | 0 Comments
Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:51 PM

Workflow Foundation Learning - I DID IT!

Well, today (4th of September 2006, almost the independence day of my country ) I decided to learn about Windows Workflow Foundation (quite the same day I started learning about Linq and ADO.Net vNext, actually). I'm aware I am late but it's been hard
Posted by heynemann | 3 Comments
Friday, September 15, 2006 12:37 PM

Come Join the Dark Side of Visual Studio too!

After reading this post by Scott Hanselman I realized something. What´s easier to look at: a lit lightbulb or an unlit one? Yeah you got that right! So why are we forced to look at white screens? Just so we forget the good ol´days of black and green fun?
Posted by heynemann | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): black.zip
Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:50 PM

Personal TFS Project (Part 2)

After a lot of thinking I decided that if this project (TFS Bhal) is going to be a community project, well, the better place to get feedback is from the community. So I´m disclosing more information about it. You can read everything about it at http://bhal.pbwiki.com/
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:53 AM

Personal TFS Project

I´m starting a personal project targeting TFS that I´ll probably be exposing here in my blog in a few weeks (months?). I only want to unveil the project once it has some deliverables. And I defined an iteration to "Release to Public". Consider that my
Posted by heynemann | 2 Comments
Monday, September 11, 2006 7:14 PM

"Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap

At last we can all unite in celebration!!! Microsoft is supporting "Atlas" and now it will be named Microsoft AJAX Library (for the Client Part) and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions (for the Server Part). This doesn´t seem like big news since it won´t have
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:34 PM

TSF Project Building Guidelines

If you are out there building TFS projects like me, then you will find Brian Harry latest post to be very interesting. The TFS Team just released a document on guidelines to building more effective applications that target the TFS. You can check out Brian
Posted by heynemann | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:03 PM

TFS Code Review Workflow

As you can see in the transcript on the Chat with the VSTS team transcript I asked them if it was possible to get a more active code review policy. bharry_MS (Expert): Q: [25] I really like the Code Review Feature of TFS, but io wish it would be more
Posted by heynemann | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:21 PM

Visual Studio Developers' Chat

Attached is the transcript of the chat with the VSTS Developers Team. Technorati Tags: Visual - Studio - Developers - VSTS
Posted by heynemann | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): VisualStudioDevsChat.zip
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:31 AM

IronPython 1.0 is out!

As Scott Guthrie blogged about today, IronPython (Microsoft´s Dynamic Language based on .Net 2.0) is out. This is really cool as it brings a lot of new scenarios to the game, including: Extensibility Points to Applications with Dynamic Code being added
Posted by heynemann | 0 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006 7:17 PM

Team Build 101 (Part 2 of 2)

This is article part two. For part one click here . We must now check to see if our team build is ok. Just right-click the team build type and click Build Team Project <YourProjectName>. A Team build will then start and it will guide you through
Posted by heynemann | 5 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006 7:17 PM

Team Build 101 (Part 1 of 2)

This is article part one. For part two click here . Today we engaged in a task (that seemed daunting at first, but proved to be just a little hard :)) that was the one to setup a team build for Continuous Integration of one of our websites. For you guys
Posted by heynemann | 3 Comments