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Monday, July 30, 2007 11:25 PM

The Firefox-ism I miss the most using IE7

It came up during a conversation with a friend that I use IE7 at work as my browser even though it's mostly Firefox at home - this isn't because Firefox is forbidden internally (some use it and even mention so on their external blogs, especially for testing
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:33 PM

One of my favorite Eclipse-isms comes to VS!

Some of my former jobs involved doing java development in Eclipse. One thing I missed when joining Microsoft and using Visual Studio was the "Organize Imports" that Eclipse had. While reading ScottGu's blog today, I noticed that Orcas now has it ! Yay
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Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:26 PM

I need to get a life.. I think

I was reading a man page today... If netcat makes you rich somehow and you're feeling generous, mail me a check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network, get a life . Always ski in control. I work at Microsoft, although not in MSN. Am
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Saturday, July 28, 2007 7:07 PM

ϐeta 2 - Electric Boogaloo

As Batman and Robin announced , Beta2 is out. This is especially super crazy exciting (or maybe just super super exciting ?) for my team since it's the first TFS release that includes our work on the new TFS setup . Since it was such a huge pain point
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 2:40 PM

Offline mode in Orcas

Today I happened to hit the offline mode dialog in Orcas, albeit unintentionally:
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 8:51 AM

Quick test to see which URL's are still valid

On an internal mailing list about PowerShell, the question came up how to test a set of url's to see which ones are still "valid" (meaning you can still access them successfully). Since I thought my answer may be useful to others externally as well, I'm
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:13 PM

Debug your TFS domain authentication issues with dsquery

TFS supports many different authentication scenarios. One of them is the "workgroup mode" where there is no Active Directory domain involved at all, and the users are all using the Windows workgroup authentication mechanism where if the account names
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:10 PM

I'm having problems with TFS install/upgrade/repair/uninstall - where are the log files?

This post is just so I can paste a URL instead of the same block of text again and again in the forums :) There's 2 purposes to finding the log files during/after a failed install: Inspect them yourself to see if you can figure out how to fix the problem
Posted by jmanning | 3 Comments
 
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