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Dec 1, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

What? Increasing Your Agility with Scrum and Visual Studio Team System When? 12/12/2008 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where? Microsoft Corporation 401 West Front Street Suite 400 Boise, ID 83702 Why? Martin …

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Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder

Nov 29, 2008 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When looking at FinalBuilder and Team Foundation Build side by side, the obvious breakdown in features and advantages looks like this. <li>Team Foundation Build provides a complete build …

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Microsoft FireStarter Events

Nov 29, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft has certainly been ratcheting up the community involvement over the last few years. In a down economy like this one, free training opportunities suddenly take on even more significance. …

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My First VSTO Application - BeSure

Nov 29, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you exchange email with me on a regular basis, you know that I am the king of email faux pas. I regularly do things like this: Use CNTRL+Enter to send an email sooner than I really want to send it. …

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Yet Another Use of a Unit Test Framework

Nov 26, 2008 • 2 min read • David Starr

Believe me, I understand TDD. I grok it. It is in my soul. I also happen to believe (and know from experience) that unit test frameworks are valuable far beyond their use in TDD. Some of the best uses …

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Team Build Target Map

Nov 25, 2008 • 4 min read • Martin Danner

Team_Build_Target_Map1.docx (22.73 KB) I had the good fortune of reviewing the upcoming book titled Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build. This book is an …

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How fast is the VelociRaptor drive?

Nov 21, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

So I splurged recently and picked up one of the new Western Digital 300GB SATA VelociRaptor drives. I also happened to be in Las Vegas, and there was a Fry’s nearby. I think that was the cause, …

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VSTS Things I Learned Last Week

Nov 20, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I taught another week long class on Team System last week and as always, I learned a lot. It’s a definite truth that if you want to learn about something, teach a class on it. The other thing …

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Seattle Code Camp

Nov 17, 2008 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I attended Seattle Code Camp 2008 in Redmond this weekend and it was a fantastic experience! I will definitely be back next year. This is certainly not the largest Code Camp out there, with only 125 …

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