Hot off the press – a release of the much anticipated Power Tools for Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server 2010 – April 2010 (RTM). This release enables some of my favourite TFS goodness including: Alerts Explorer, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Best Practices Analyzer, Custom Check-in Policy Pack, Process Editor, Team […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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Sorry about the delays in new posts – we’re anticipating moving into a new apartment early next week and as a result I’ve been postponing the amount of time usually reserved for new blog posts. Regular posts should resume either later this coming week, or the following week (as I […]
For those of you who work with or live in a country which uses a language other than English, you may have need for variations on input. As you may know, I’m learning Mandarin which means I’m making use of Traditional and Simplified Chinese. When setting up my Windows 7 […]
So by now you must have read that Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 has been released to market. What you may not necessarily be aware of are the different “flavours” of Visual Studio. The 2005 Edition of Visual Studio comprised of Professional, Tools for Office and Team Suite (Architect, Development, Database […]
Two nights ago, Microsoft’s premiere Development Suite – Visual Studio 2010 – was officially released (RTM – release to manufacturing/marketing). This means that it is officially ready and final (not pre-release). You can download full trials of all the editions of the suite from the Microsoft website. The 2010 edition […]
If you are like me, you probably aren’t a huge fan of Kerberos, but it does have some advantages. When using an Active Domain (AD) account as a service account, it is handy to reduce the attack vector by minimising the chosen Domain Account’s permissions and privileges. If you are […]
You may have heard of the upcoming SQL Server Modelling suite formerly known as ‘Oslo’. The suite, know known as the SQL Server Modelling CTP, features the ‘m’ modelling language and a graphical workbench known as (or codenamed) ‘Quadrant’. I’ve been meaning to look into codename ‘Oslo’ for a while […]
Well, it’s been a busy week. Unfortunately it hasn’t left me with much time to write any meaningful blog entries – apologies. Last Friday I managed to implement an end-to-end solution for object graph serialization with Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects to and from WCF Web Services (note: for .Net […]