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Slides from VSLive Las Vegas 2008: WiX, TFS Reporting, TFS Customization
I spoke last week at VSLive Las Vegas and I promised my audiences that I’d post my slides and code. (Better late than never, right?) Anyway, here it is. Serious Team Foundation Server Customization code, slides Win and Web Installers with WiX code, slides De-Mystifying Team Foundation Server Reporting code, slides The TFS Reporting demos…
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TFS2008: The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server.
This weekend I helped a client with a particularly awful upgrade from Team Foundation Server 2005 to TFS 2008. Eventually, I got TFS working and decided to test out creating a new Team Project. At that point, I found out that SharePoint (WSS 3.0) wasn’t working properly. Here’s the error message that showed up on…
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Audible.com Works On Zune!
I’m not sure how I missed this but Audible.com finally supports the Zune! -Ben
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Online RegEx Debugger
Maybe I’m just not that good at “the google” but I needed to debug some regular expressions in C#. I wanted a simple form that I could type in a regular expression and check it against a bunch of values. Couldn’t find it. Like I said — maybe I just wasn’t searching for the right…
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Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition and Database Edition are now merged
For those of you who have ever wrestled with what kind of license you should get of Visual Studio Team System — Developer or Database — well, this is for you. Microsoft just announced that they’re merging the two editions for Visual Studio 10 (aka “Rosario”). You’re probably thinking “well, that’s all well and good…
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Cancelled: Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 10/2 — Jesse Liberty, "Skinning Silverlight Controls"
Update 10/2/2008: Unfortunately, Jesse Liberty is ill and won’t be able to make it tonight. This meeting has been cancelled and Jesse will be speaking at our December 4, 2008 meeting. -Ben Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, October 2nd. For our October meeting, we have Jesse Liberty from Microsoft presenting “Skinning…
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Custom, Stateful Object Data Source For ASP.NET
The ObjectDataSource that’s been in ASP.NET for the last few releases is has always seemed really cool but — well — only almost useful. If you want to do data access logic directly in your ASP.NET form’s code, then the ASP.NET ObjectDataSource is great. For those of us who can’t, won’t, or don’t do data…
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VSLive New York 2008 — Architect LINQ To SQL End-to-End
I just wrapped up my first of two presentations at VSLive New York 2008. Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL LINQ to SQL is great for getting objects in and out of a relational database but how does it fit in to an n-tier application? Demos are great but how do you really use…
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Beantown .NET User Group on 9/4/2008: Jason Dolinger, WPF Patterns
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, September 4th. For our September meeting, we have Jason Dolinger from Lab49 presenting “WPF Patterns”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 9/4. Click here to RSVP. Our location…
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Dubbelbock for Visual Studio 2008 Released for free
Well, Visual Studio 2008 was released in February and I finally got around to getting Dubbelbock updated for VS2008. The funny thing is that most of the delay had to do with modifying the licensing code since I’ve decided to release it for free. In addition to being able to access Team Foundation Server source…