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Shelving is the June Cleaver of TFS Source Control

Sep 16, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ever notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to …

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Microsoft joins Object Management Group (OMG)

Sep 15, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last week, Microsoft announced that they had joined the Object Management Group. OMG is the consortium responsible for many distributed, and object-oriented specifications. One of their sets of …

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VS Extensibility Roadmap

Sep 15, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I'm sitting through the two-day Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Developers Conference this week and Rico Mariani gave his roadmap to Visual Studio extensibility. Here are some highlights of the …

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Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation

Sep 12, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group. We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration …

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VSTS Profiler Improvements in SP1

Aug 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As you know, Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released earlier this month. Most of SP1 was about bug fixes and performance, but it seems that the profiler team …

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Red Gate acquires .NET Reflector

Aug 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I got an email this morning, as I'm sure many of you did, from Lutz Roeder ... After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new …

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Yep, I'm old

Jul 25, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

But at least I had a cool party to send me off to my next 40 years. Last Saturday, around 140 of my closest friends and family converged on a park in Boise to roast a pig, drink from the keg, and poke …

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Kathleen Dollard in Boise tonight

Jul 18, 2008 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Wow, two great speakers in less than a month. Last month, we had Kalen Delaney speaking at Boise's inaugural SQL Server User Group and tonight at the Idaho .NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard an INETA …

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Using 64-bit Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation OS, Part 1

Jul 14, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

I just replaced Windows Vista Ultimate x64 on my laptop with the 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008. What prompted the change? Well, I was hoping to improve the lackluster performance of Vista. I …

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