Author: Richard Hundhausen

Team System geek needed for 6 weeks in Lebanon

Mar 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Recently, Microsoft and IESC Geekcorps have teamed up to send Microsoft developer experts to participate as volunteers in the "Access to International Markets Through Information Technology" (AIM-IT) …

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VSTS MVPs at Basta!

Mar 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It took me a couple of days to go through my photos, but I found a good one of the various Visual Studio Team System MVPs who attended Basta! Here's Martin Kulov, me, and Ognjen Bajic. But, where's …

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Using the ReportViewer control in .NET 2.0?

Mar 9, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of the coolest controls that Visual Studio 2005 includes is the report design and view functionality of the ReportViewer controls. What used to be a server-only function, .RDL …

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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista

Mar 8, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you are running Vista and VS 2005, you need to install this SP1 update. It's referenced by KB929470, and you can download it here.

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Presented Team System at Frankfurt .NET User Group

Mar 5, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you to my friends at Basta! for recommending me as an alternate speaker for the Frankfurt .NET User Group meeting last week. Thomas "Teddy" Sohnrey was the coordinator (and my interpreter at …

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Microsoft's Sysinternals Utilities

Feb 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last summer, Microsoft acquired Sysinternals and Mark Russinovich. They have consolidated all of the cool utilities, for both IT professionals and developers, into one listing. …

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Laser-fed 3M Post-It Notes

Feb 22, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As you know, Visual Studio Team System tracks many different work item types, such as requirements, tasks, and bugs. Many agile teams like to use "sticky notes" to post on the wall to organize their …

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SQL Server 2005 Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007

Feb 21, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Over the weekend Microsoft released some cool add-ins for Excel 2007 and Visio 2007: Table Analysis Tools for Excel - this add-in provides you with easy-to-use tasks that leverage SQL Server 2005 …

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Converting Crystal Reports (.rpt) to Reporting Services reports (.rdl)

Feb 21, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There are way too many Crystal Reports out there in the world and I would love to see more of them converted to Reporting Services. Therein lies the problem. I had heard that Crystal (now …

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