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August 2006 - Posts

Team blog or Personal Blog?

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:08 PM by jledgard
Recently I received this question. Hey – I’m planning to start a blog this week to talk about new ????? work I and the rest of my planning team is working on. Anyway, I was wondering if you had advice about whether to use a team blog or individual one? Read More...
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How hard is it to get a hot fix from Microsoft? It's not easy online.

Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 3:31 PM by jledgard
Update #4: You may now download your hotfixes without contacting support! ... this was the biggest issue that most customers seemed to have. Fixes for the other issues will also be coming online shortly. Thanks for all your feedback. Update: To be very Read More...
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Do we really need another wifi/network manager running on our machines?

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 2:41 PM by jledgard
Let us know what you think about Windows Live WiFi Center and Windows Live WiFi Hotspot Locator. We really appreciate knowing what our customers like and don’t like, and what functionality people would like to see added in the future. Source : Un-Wired: Read More...
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John D'Addamio's blog : Power Toys and code coverage

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 12:49 PM by jledgard
John is the lone SDET on the developer solutions team. He's fairly outnumbered by his developer and PM counterparts so, he spends a good amount of his time working on ways to automate and increase the amount of testing provided by unit tests and the other Read More...
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Help us find VSCmdShell Bugs

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:56 AM by jledgard
Our team is going to release a 1.1 update of the VSCmdShell tool window for Visual Studio and we are spending the day looking for bugs. Because the project is public you can participate as well. Head on over to the codeplex site http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell Read More...
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Because there is such a thing as a bad question

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:30 PM by jledgard
It's one thing I've learned watching the progress of the MSDN forums over the last year+... there are bad questions. I'll be watching to see how well this sort of "rate the question" system goes over. Something new has appeared at Yahoo! Answers . A rating Read More...
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Learn the History of VS Express

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 11:32 PM by jledgard
This is a great bit of transparency where Dan Fernandez tells you, in his own words, the history and reasoning behind the VS Express. Fast forward to RTM, and we’ve now had over six million downloads in eight months . That’s a huge number and is a phenomena Read More...
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Google Deprecates Groups Functionality

Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 9:23 PM by jledgard
First AOL did this, now Google is lowering google groups visibility. Seems to make sense since they don't seem very speedy about updating groups functionality. Maybe they'll get wise and update it one day with a real conversation search . Google got rid Read More...
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An easy way to bulk copy sharepoint document libraries

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:36 AM by jledgard
Our team was migrating to a hosted TFS server environment this week so that we don't have to manage our own server anymore. One of the challenges I wasn't looking forward to was migrating our sharepoint document libraries. Thankfully I found this page Read More...
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Will Live QnA suffer the Same Fate as Yahoo Answers?

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:51 AM by jledgard
You tell me. I have 10 invites to hand out to the first folks that send me thier e-mail address. I'll post your comments about the service to my blog if you send them back to me as well. Read More...
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Developer Solutions Sprint 6: BPA Tool, 1.1 Releases, & The Developer Power Pack

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:44 PM by jledgard
Today the Developer Solutions team has begun its 6 th five week sprint. Sprint 5 saw the release of the VSCmdShell tool & an Alpha of our Best Practices Analyzer for ASP.Net 2.0 . There was buy-off to begin working with CSS on a detailed plan for Read More...
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Where are the Blue Angels of Software Development?

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:30 PM by jledgard
"Well, that one is pretty simple, self. The Blue Angels’ mission statement spells it out: “The mission of the Blue Angels is to enhance Navy recruiting, and credibly represent Navy and Marine Corps aviation to the United States and its Armed Forces to Read More...
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Is Yahoo Answers Really that Bad?

Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 9:21 AM by jledgard
Q. On your recommendation, I tried the Yahoo Answers site and was disappointed by the level of the questions and the amount of spam on the site. It seemed like everyone was taking it as a joke. A. Me, too. Right after my column a few weeks ago the site Read More...
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IOD: Wouldn't it be cool if..

Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:43 PM by jledgard
Usefull code snippets, like the one that Chee Seong writes below, where automatically added to your local snippet collection if you coded against TFS? Since I cannot specify "Display Name" in the To property for the MailMessage object, I need to somehow Read More...
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Apple Fires Discussion Forum Staff - Forums Degrade

Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:39 AM by jledgard
Apple Computer has decided to do away with its discussion support team, a group of forum hosts that have monitored and moderated its user discussion boards, a new report has confirmed. Source: AppleInsider | Report confirms dismantling of Apple forum Read More...
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6 Years = 6 Dozen Peanup Butter M&M Cookies in Front of 41/4802

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:58 AM by jledgard
I’ve been here for 6 years; let’s make sure the cookies aren’t. Thanks to everyone that’s made this a great place to work. Here are some little known factoids from the last 6 years. First Product I worked on: Visual Studio .NET Academic Tools . Now available Read More...
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