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Mar 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.

Life

SqlSpec from Elsasoft

Mar 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

We all have our favorite database structure generator or schema reporting tool. Maybe we have built one of them in the past. I always tell my clients that it's a great "first application" to …

SQL Server

Visual Studio Team System Seminar in Boise

Mar 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Next week there will be a two-day seminar on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Unfortunately, I won't be delivering the event. If you attend, you can see how VSTS includes an integrated team …

Visual Studio ALM Azure Boards Testing

Another good Google hack!

Mar 15, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

For some time, I’ve been sharing a neat hack that I came up with for finding files using Google. Here’s how it works: Assume you are looking for a specific file, such as northwind.mdb. If …

Misc

Agile Tool - 3x5 Cards that both shuffle and stick

Mar 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a great tool for agile development that was mentioned in a blog post below. Go get a stack of these! Shuffle them, pass them around, put your use stories on them, and slap them …

Preferred Practice Misc Tools

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) …

Visual Studio ALM

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 …

Visual Studio ALM

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 …

Visual Studio Microsoft SQL Server

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.

Visual Studio