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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:30 AM

Visual Studio 2008 DB Pro GDR CTP and max model size

If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 DB Pro GDR CTP (that's a mouthful) you may run into a schema model size limitation. This will seemingly be resolved in the CTP 15 release expected toward the mid to end of July but until them if you happen to be
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:10 PM

Want to feel good about your code???

Want to feel good about your code? I'm migrating some legacy .NET 1.1 code (that no one still with the organization wrote) into the latest framework and keep running into method after method that looks like the below. Hmm... If OK then do this. Else just
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:53 AM

One of my favorite things about Visual Studio 2008 - Intellisense and the CTRL key

One of my favorite new features of Visual Studio 2008 is the ability to have Intellisense turned on and still be able to see what the heck I am doing. I'm always refactoring and invariably I want to see the code just beneath where the intellisense has
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:51 AM

Learning Something New on MSBuild Targets and Conditions

I love learning something new. Especially something that goes against what I would have expected. Such is the case with MSBuild Targets and conditions. A few days ago I posted about Enforcing Build Agents in a Team Build . I challenged others to show
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:58 AM

Coolest Team System Gadget Contest

Mike Azocar is running a Coolest Team System Gadget Contest . I know I'll be contributing something most likely related to managing my large volume of build definitions. If you have a feature you'd like to see in an add in tool for managing builds in
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:51 PM

Enforcing the Build Agent in a Team Build

From time to time you may have a need to ensure that a specific team build only runs on a specific build agent. I can't recall but I think that this is a forthcoming feature in the v.Next major release of TFS code named Rosario (I'll check to see if that
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:21 AM

Visual Studio 2008 On Windows Server 2008 with Restart

I went to install an instance of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta onto a Windows Server 2008 machine today in order to be able to install the Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP . As part of the SP1 Beta install it needed to restart, I assume
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:38 AM

If Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

If you are installing the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta make sure that you have Windows Update Service enabled or it will fail early in the process. That's likely in the read me doc explicitly stated but it is definitely implied from the readme.txt file
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Monday, June 16, 2008 9:09 AM

Measuring Is Not Managing

There is an adage you have most likely heard. "If it can't be measured it can't be managed." Like most adages of its sort there is a lot of truth to the statement. Like most adages of the sort, much is left out of such a simple statement. Often forgotten
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