Tag: Tools

May 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

John Paul Cook, a Microsoft MVP for Virtual Machines has an excellent article on VM Central on how to use Acronis to effectively compact your VPCs. (The article also covers other areas of interest to …

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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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Shipping unit tests with your shrinkwrapped software

Apr 12, 2007 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last year, at PDC, I sat down with Adam Cogan, of SSW, during an MSDN magazine party. Feeling the guilty pleasure of totally geeking out while a decent party was going on, Adam led a group of geeks …

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Running .NET on WebSphere J2EE Servers

Mar 25, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m generally involved in the .NET space, but often work with companies that have both .NET and J2EE running in their enterprise. Because of our focus on Team Foundation Server (TFS) and VSTS …

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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 …

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Install Script for Team Foundation Server

Oct 5, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's the install script for TFS, both Dual and Single server install. Thanks to Etienne Tremblay (VSTS MVP) for all his hard work in putting this together, and updating it for SQL Server 2005 …

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Must have Agile Dev Tool & Web Site

Oct 3, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The best tool is the simplest. It shouldn't get in the way of doing things, and it should be incredibly easy. One of my favorite Agile dev tools is the digital camera. Simply snap a …

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Protolize - Great Web Development Aggregation Site

Oct 2, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I just found Protolize. It's a great resource for web development - everything from Ajax to XHTML. It's basically a collection of pointers (done very nicely) to various web …

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A few ins and outs when building TFS extensions

Sep 7, 2006 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Brian Harry has just posted a great Word doc that gives a few ins and outs when building extensions to Team Foundation Server. It's focused on the Version Control side of the house, but many of …

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