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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Fantastic post on majoring/not majoring in CS
There’s a great post (and an even better discussion thread) by Janelle Godfrey titled If I Could Turn Back Time: Why I Wish I had Studied Computer Science/IT/Technology in College. The gist of the post is that Janelle is hearing/seeing massive declines in enrollments in college CS degrees and is wondering why this is happenning.…
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Problem with VS2005 Data-Driven Unit Test with Excel 2007
If you haven’t checked out data-driven unit tests yet, you should. They’re great for those cases where you want to run your unit tests using a bunch of different data. The logic of your unit test doesn’t change — same calls, same asserts — but the data input and the expected return values change. When…
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Speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007
I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007 in just a few months — May 6 through May 10. I’m doing four 1-hour sessions: Serious WebPart Customization Ever tried to customize how your ASP.NET WebParts look? Sure, you can change colors and fonts, but what if you want to change the layout? What if you…