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  • WiX Shortcut Points to the Wrong File

    I ran into an interesting bug/feature/problem with my WiX 3.0 / Votive installer recently where shortcuts were pointing to the wrong file.  For example in the case of Dubbelbock TFS, I set up a shortcut to Dubbelbock.UI.exe from Startup and from “Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc” in the Programs menu.  What was happening was that rather…

  • Dubbelbock TFS 2.0 (Beta)

    Back in May, I released version 1.0 of Dubbelbock TFS.  Dubbelbock 1.0 let you access Team Foundation Server version control from Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) so that you could do check ins, check outs, get latest, and other common commands.  Since then I’ve been fixing bugs and adding new features and now Dubbelbock TFS v2.0 is…

  • Programmatically Set AreaPath on a WorkItem

    I wanted to be able to programmatically change the AreaPath on one of my Team Foundation Server (TFS) Work Items but I kept getting validation errors from the WorkItem object.  The idea was to download the list of Areas from TFS and then change an existing work item’s area to one of the other values.  …

  • Truncate and Shrink an Overgrown SQL Server Log File

    I run my Team Foundation Server inside of Virtual Server 2005 R2.  This morning I noticed that the virtual server’s disk usage had gotten over 50GB.  That seemed like kind of a lot.  Part of it was a bunch of nightly database backup files for TFS that had accumulated on the virtual disk.  That was…

  • Run Non-"Hello, World" VSTS WebTests As Part of a Team Build

    We’ve all accepted the Continuous Integration religion here, right?  Our Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) WebTests are part of our unit test suite and should be run as part of our continuous integration Team Builds, right?  Well, if we want our VSTS WebTests do something more than just a couple of light-hearted clicks around our ASP.NET application…

  • Using SQL Server 2005 CONTAINSTABLE and FREETEXTTABLE with a variable

    I’ve been doing a bunch of work with SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Search lately.  Let’s say you’re working on an application to manage books in a library and you’ve defined a full-text search index on the LibraryEntry table’s Title column. Here’s a simple sample for how you’d search for all library entries that contain the word…

  • Beantown.NET Meeting with Adam Machanic on Thursday 6/7/2007

    The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting on Thursday, 6/7/2007.  This will be our last meeting before Beantown’s summer break (we’ll be resuming in September at a new meeting location).  http://www.beantowndotnet.org   This month we have Adam Machanic presenting “Modeling and Querying Graphs and Hierarchies in SQL Server”.   As always, our meeting is open…

  • Want to access TFS source control from Explorer.exe? Announcing "Dubbelbock TFS"!

    Ever heard of Tortoise SVN?  It’s a great tool that lets you control Subversion source control from Windows Explorer.  Right-click on a file or folder and you can do operations like check-in, check-out, add, etc. I use Team Foundation Server for my source control and have missed the convenience of being able to access source…

  • Want to access TFS source control from Explorer.exe? Announcing “Dubbelbock TFS”!

    Ever heard of Tortoise SVN?  It’s a great tool that lets you control Subversion source control from Windows Explorer.  Right-click on a file or folder and you can do operations like check-in, check-out, add, etc. I use Team Foundation Server for my source control and have missed the convenience of being able to access source…

  • All Errors, All The Time: app_offline.htm, "The resource cannot be found", and non-stop 404's

    This post — http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2005/07/03/38757.aspx — saved me from spontaneous, self-inflicted baldness. I’ve been updating www.benday.com over the last few days and for about 4 hours this afternoon it was totally dead.  Any aspx page that I tried to execute would come up as “404 – Resource cannot be found” even though the file was definitely…

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