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Editing the TFSBuild.proj file without wasting time

Apr 27, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you’re trying to edit an automated Team Build, you can really get stuck waiting long times for the builds to complete. This can be very frustrating while you’re going through a series …

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Welcome to the team, Jeff Levinson

Apr 26, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Accentient is pleased to announce the hiring of Jeff Levinson, a fellow Team System MVP! Jeff joins our team as a senior consultant, having just left The Boeing Company where he worked as a solution …

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VS2005 Template for listening to TFS Events

Apr 24, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ve posted about this before, however, it’s so important I’ll repost. If you’re trying to create a listener web service for TFS events, don’t start from scratch! Use …

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Portland Code Camp 3.0

Apr 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Pack up your compilers and IDES, because it's camping time in Portland! Portland Code Camp 3.0 is back May 19th and 20th! Location: Washington State University - Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek …

Conferences

Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Friday

Apr 22, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. …

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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. …

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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 …

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