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  • Managing TFS Team Build History: Delete Completed Builds From "All Build Types" & Bug Work Item Drop-downs

    Here’s another blog post that came from an attendee question at VSLive Vegas.  In Team Foundation Server (TFS) there are at least two places where you can see completed Team Builds: the “Team Builds – All Build Types” screen and the Bug work item’s “Found in build” and “Resolved in build” drop-down lists.   Here’s what it looks like…

  • Custom Lazy-loadable Business Collections with NHibernate

    I was at VSLive Las Vegas last week and one of my talks was on NHibernate development.  One of the guys who was in my session came up to me and asked “how do I create my own custom collection that I can use in NHibernate that still lets me do lazy loading?”  The core…

  • My New Favorite Refactoring in DevExpress Refactor Pro

    DevExpress has been pushing out upgraded versions of their Refactor Pro and CodeRush products a lot in the last year. My current favorite refactoring is “Move Type to File”.  The C# best practice is to have only one class per .cs file but sometimes you’re in the coding groove and you just want to quickly…

  • Configure Windows to Log in to TFS Automatically

    I got an email last night from a user of Dubbelbock who’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) is running in “workgroup” authentication mode.  Workgroup mode means that you’ve installed TFS on a server that not part of an Active Directory domain.  Since it isn’t part of an Active Directory domain, all the user accounts are defined in Windows…

  • Beantown .NET Meeting on 10/6/2007: Chris Bowen

    Beantown .NET is meeting on October 4. For our October meeting we have Chris Bowen presenting “P&P and Enterprise Library 3.0”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 3pm on 10/6 –…

  • Speaking at Code Camp 8: "WiX Installers" & "TFS: Under The Hood"

    Man! This just snuck up on me.  Code Camp 8 is in less than 7 days!  I’ll be doing two sessions.  Come by and say hello. -Ben   Date(s): 09.29.2007-09.30.2007 (GMT-5) Type: Code Camp Location: Microsoft New England District: 201 Jones Rd, 6th Floor, Waltham MA Update: 9/27/07 — Due to a scheduling problem (my fault),…

  • Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus

    I just upgraded my Microsoft Virtual Server R2 instances from SP1 beta to SP1.  While I was downloading the release version of SP1, I came across something new — the Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus.  For anyone who does a lot of work with Virtual Server, I think you’ll love this new client.  It…

  • Run Unit Tests With Automatic DBPro DB Deploy from a Team Build

    This time I’m genuinely surprised that no one has tackled this and posted it on a blog or to the DBPro or Team System forums. When you add a unit test for a stored procedure in Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals (DBPro) for the first time, you get the dialog asking how you…

  • September 2007 Beantown .NET User Group Meeting

    The Beantown .NET INETA User Group is back on September 6, 2007 after our summer vacation.  For our September meeting we have Richard Hale Shaw presenting “WCF: State of the Service?”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP…

  • SQL Server Backup Command with a Variable

    A few weeks back I blogged how to do CONTAINSTABLE() and FREETEXTTABLE() using SQL variables.  This weekend, I was working on creating a backup script for a client and ran into a similar problem where the SQL Server 2005 documentation says you can use a variable but it didn’t actually work because of a crucial missing…

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