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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:13 AM

Silverlight with A Set Of Canvas Inside A StackPanel

What would you expect to be rendered from the following? Answer in the next post. Personally I’d expect a vertical stack of canvas each with a button and combobox beside one another. Short answer. Nope! 1: Notice the nested canvas and the controls list
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:24 AM

Moving To EMC Consulting As A Microsoft Solutions Principal For the Northeast US and Canada

Looks like I am moving back into the world of consulting but wearing a different hat than ever before. It’s not so much that the hat (technical sales) is such a different style than I have worn in the past just that I’ll not also be wearing the implementation
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Friday, March 20, 2009 1:22 AM

TFS Admin Tool Beta 2 Released

TFS Admin Tool Beta 2 was released. The only intended change from the beta 1 was that is now supports non-alphanumeric characters for the 2008 SQL Server name. If you ran into that issue try out the Beta 2 http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com BTW... for the twitterati
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Monday, March 16, 2009 9:04 AM

On Microsoft, Doorstops and Being an MVP

Under inspiration of a few beers and a friend, Steve St. Jean , I put together a little video titled "Things Are Tough At Microsoft Too". It's poking fun at myself and how unengaged I am in the little trinkets Microsoft provides in the MVP Award kit (I'm
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:01 AM

TFS Admin Tool 1.4 Beta Released

We just release the 1.4 beta of TFS Admin Tool on Codeplex . It’s the first release in over a year. Its big feature is that is provides support for SQL Server 2008 which had not been previously supported. The 1.4 final version will follow shortly as will
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:30 PM

TFS Admin Tool Codeplex Project Adding Improved Community Support

We are working on a new release for the TFS Admin Tool on Codeplex . It will focus on adding support for SQL Server 2008 and have a few other things thrown in for good measure but we won’t be stopping there. You may have seen posts from a few different
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:01 AM

Free 184-page preview chapter

From @chrisbowen tweet: Free 184-page preview chapter (by Scott Guthrie) from " Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 " -
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Monday, March 09, 2009 11:52 PM

Upgrading TFS SP1 VPC To SQL Server 2008

If you are wanting to use the Team Foundation Server SP1 VPC and plan to do an upgrade of the SQL Server from 2005 to SQL Server 2008 don’t make the mistake I did and try to use the Std or Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2008 to do the upgrade. The reason
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:58 PM

TFS Admin Tool 1.4 En Route And Wants Your Input

The TFS Admin Tool on Codeplex is about to go through a new iteration to plug some defects and add a few feature enhancements. I am now the primary coordinator external to Microsoft on this and I posted the following on the wiki: We will be creating a
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