Author: Richard Hundhausen

New, simpler AdventureWorks sample database

Apr 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Trainers and presenters have been wanting a sample database that is less complex than AdventureWorks, but more interesting than Northwind. Thanks to my friends at SolidQ for letting me know about …

SQL Server

Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 is out

Apr 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, Microsoft's Developer Division (DevDiv) released beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas", which corresponds with the Connected Systems Division’s beta 1 release of the .NET Framework 3.5. …

Visual Studio ALM

Welcome to "The Region"

Apr 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft just launched "The Region", a global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected as Regional Directors. The site is designed to help …

Microsoft

Filing bugs from an ASPX page

Apr 17, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’d like to file bugs in TFS using a web page, perhaps for users that don’t have VS2005 or the Team Explorer installed, there’s a pretty clean example located here. Now, I hear …

Visual Studio ALM

WSS3.0 with Team System SP1

Apr 17, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Hallelujah! You can now use WSS 3.0 with TFS 1.0 SP1! This is great news!!! For those of you who haven’t seen WSS 3.0 as compared to WSS 2.0, you’re in for a wonderful treat! WSS 2.0 was …

Visual Studio ALM

Integrating Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0

Apr 16, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Just to catch you up, Microsoft's Team Foundation Server v1.0 (released March 2006) only works with WSS 2.0. WSS 2.0 is the old version. WSS 3.0 is the new version, and launched with Microsoft …

Visual Studio ALM

Did you sign the VB6 petition?

Apr 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you did sign the petition, then you should probably get out more, and check out a cool technology called .NET. If you did not sign the petition, be proud and show it ...

Microsoft

Productivity Best Practice

Apr 14, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of the best things software development shops can do to improve productivity is to set Outlook to only check email once every hour (or 30 minutes at least). This is because people tend to take …

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Shipping unit tests with your shrinkwrapped software

Apr 12, 2007 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last year, at PDC, I sat down with Adam Cogan, of SSW, during an MSDN magazine party. Feeling the guilty pleasure of totally geeking out while a decent party was going on, Adam led a group of geeks …

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