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ActionPack for Your DAL: It's Slicker Than Hot Poi
My good buddy Rob Connery, of Commerce Starter Kit fame, has started a groovy new project on CodePlex called ASP.NET ActionPack . ActionPack consists of a set of ORM tools, code generation and dynamic query tools. Inspired by the magic of Ruby on Rails, Read More...
CodePlex Developers: Download VSTF Team Explorer and TF.exe for FREE
CodePlex isn't just a shiny, new, hexagonally-embossed website for hardcore, online collaborative software developers and aficionados, it's a website sitting on top of a burly, new software configuration management system called Visual Studio Team Foundation Read More...
Choosing the Right License for your Open or Shared Source Project
Are you planning to create a shared source or open source project on Gotdotnet CodeGallery or Workspaces ? If so, one of the first and most important things to do is to decide upon the terms by which you’d like to share your source code and other intellectual Read More...
Enumerating the # and names of files in a VSS folder
A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem: "You can use VSS Automation to find Read More...
Microsoft Project Server + Visual Studio Team System on gotdotnet
If you are evaluating or using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to manage your software development lifecycle (SDLC) or if you are interested in developing on the Team System platform, you MUST check out this new gotdotnet workspace . PROJECT SERVER VISUAL Read More...
Differences between gotdotnet CodeGallery and Workspaces
When I joined the gotdotnet team with Betsy and our illustrious leader, Sandy back in February/March, we quickly determined that improving the reliability and performance of GDN Workspaces should be our #1 goal. To that end, we initiated two projects: Read More...
gotdotnet CodeGallery has left the station
I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery , the newest member of the gotdotnet family. Gotdotnet.com is the community website where professional Windows and .NET developers from around the world can contribute and consume code samples, Read More...
Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor Read More...
tf.exe Rename==tf.exe Move in Visual Studio Team Foundation
When you use the Team Foundation tf rename command to rename a source-controlled file in your local workspace, you change its address, not its name. If you rename file1.cs to file2.cs, you implicitly change its address from c:\folder\ file1.cs to c:\folder\ Read More...
Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Locking vs Exclusive Checkouts
Adam Singer , the newest addition to my blogroll, recently blogged about the Lock Command in Visual Studio Team Foundation . Even if you don't have a CTP or beta build of Visual Studio 2005 Team System, I recommend his post. Locking in VSTS points to Read More...
What is a Changeset?
Curious about the source control part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation? Tired of looking at feature lists and marketing hype? If so, here’s a word you can chew on for awhile: changeset When one of the hard-working developers on my Read More...
Microsoft's New Source Code Control Application
WoooHooo! I can finally write about the project I've been working on these last few months: Microsoft's source control solution for the Twenty First Century: Source Code Control Services for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (its friends just call Read More...
Pin: the “Share my greatest, not my latest” Feature in VSS
If you code like me, your latest version of a file or project is almost never your greatest. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mark a version of a file or changeset as “use this one!” so that your teammates would stop bugging you Read More...
My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
Must See TechEd
There are a jaw-dropping 844 events from which to choose at TechEd 2004. When confronted with so many options (and such a kludgey search mechanism ), I turned to my trusty blogroll. Here's a list of folks who have been blogging about the sessions they Read More...
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