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"Team Foundation Server 2008 In Action" is now available
I just got my copy of Jamil Azher’s new book, “Team Foundation Server 2008“, in the mail. It’s an excellent book. Definitely worth picking up. Lots of great content and, best of all, my name is on the back cover — and we all know that that’s what REALLY makes a good book. 🙂 Seriously,…
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Slides from VSLive Dallas 2008: WiX, LINQ to SQL Architecture, Web Testing, Windows Azure
I spoke at VSLive Dallas 2008 last week. Here are my slides. Win and Web Installers with WiX code, slides, more Windows Azure Tour code, slides Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL code, slides Visual Studio Team System Web Testing slides, code/discussion -Ben — Want to run one of these talks at your company…
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I'm now a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System
I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP for C# for 3 years in a row. I still write mountains of code using C# and ASP.NET but after a few years of doing tons of consulting, training, blogging, and talks on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server, I’ve finally made the switch. I just got…
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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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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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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…
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Speaking at Beantown .NET User Group on TFS2008 6/12/2008
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, June 12th. For our June meeting, I’ll be presenting “Team Foundation Server 2008” as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event program (http://tinyurl.com/3uz2c3). As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please…
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Sample Custom Validation and Extraction Rules for Web Tests in Visual Studio Team System 2008
If you haven’t seen Web Tests in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and Tester Edition (aka. Visual Studio Team System), you really should do yourself a favor and take a look. They allow you to write and record unit tests that will exercise and validate a running web application or web site. The basic idea…
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My slides from VSLive Orlando 2008
I just finished up doing VSLive Orlando 2008 this week. To all of you who were in my sessions, thanks for coming. For those of you who missed the conference, you should go to the next VSLive. Here are my slides from this year’s talks: Win & Web App Installers with WiX De-mystifying TFS Reporting…