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Beantown .NET Meeting on Thursday, 1/7/2010: Jason Haley, Windows Azure SDK
Beantown .NET is going to be meeting on Thursday, 1/7/2010. This month we have Jason Haley presenting “Get Started with the Windows Azure SDK”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. It is not required to RSVP for our meetings but if…
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Beantown/Boston Azure Meeting on Thursday, 12/3/2009: Michael Stiefel on Azure
Beantown .NET will be meeting on Thursday, 12/3/2009. We’ve had a minor change in plans and this month we’ll be joining forces with the new Boston Azure User Group http://bostonazure.org/. (Don’t worry. We’re working to reschedule Bill Heys’ branching and merging talk for another month.) This month the speakers will be Mike Werner and Michael…
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Updated Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Install Guide – Now with Virtual Lab Management
A few weeks ago, I published v0.1 of our Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 installation guide. Since then, we’ve fixed a few bugs and added a walk-through for installing Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtual Lab Manager. There are definitely more bugs to be found. If you find bugs or run in to problems with…
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Updated Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Install Guide – Now with Virtual Lab Management
A few weeks ago, I published v0.1 of our Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 installation guide. Since then, we’ve fixed a few bugs and added a walk-through for installing Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtual Lab Manager. There are definitely more bugs to be found. If you find bugs or run in to problems with…
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Hook Visual Studio Web Tests in to TFS Team Build
SearchWinDevelopment.com has posted another of my Team System “tips” on their site. This one walks you through running Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Build. Run Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Foundation Server Build By Ben Day 13 Nov 2009 | SearchWinDevelopment.com One of the great features of Visual Studio 2008 is…
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Incorporate Windows Azure unit tests in to TFS Team Builds
I’ve started writing “tips” for SearchWinDevelopment.com on Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and Unit Testing. Look for them to trickle out over the next few months. They’ve posted one that I wrote about making Team Foundation Server Builds work with Windows Azure project. It’s easy enough to compile Windows Azure projects from Team Build but…
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Beantown .NET User Group Meeting on 11/5/2009: 4 Short Talks on Developer Utilities
Beantown .NET is going to be meeting on Thursday, 11/5/2009. This month we’ll be doing 4 short topics about 4 different development utilities presented by Beantown members. The talks will be: · Nick Parker on JetBrains’ dotTrace Code Profiler · Shaun Avery on Firebug · Jason Haley on PowerCommands for Reflector · Ben Day (me)…
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Add a Footer Row to a Silverlight 3 DataGrid
A missing feature in the Silverlight 3 DataGrid is the ability to add a footer row. For example, if you were trying to create a timesheet application using Silverlight, you’d want to be able to show the total number of hours for each day as shown in the image below. The solution that I came…
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ITNAmerica / Microsoft Software + Services Case Study (plus Team Foundation Server)
One of my clients just got featured in a Microsoft case study about Software + Services. ITNAmerica is based in Portland, Maine and provides flexible transportation options for seniors who are no longer able to drive. The Microsoft case study features the scalability and flexibility features of ITN’s SOA-based architecture and their success with Microsoft’s…
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Scrum Developer Training at Microsoft Mountain View, 11/2/09 – 11/6/2009
And in other Team Foundation Server 2010 news… Microsoft has teamed up with Ken Schwaber (scrum.org), the Scrum Alliance, and Accentient to create a course aimed at Scrum teams called the Scrum Developer course. This 5-day course teaches teams and individual developers how to effectively implement Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio…