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This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team
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Yesterday in my class I was going over the new GetSchema API in Whidbey and I learned from one of my students about another technique that I wasn't aware of - SQL ANSI 92 Information Schema Views. They are also supported in Oracle. There are almost too
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Daniel Moth says that he's not excited about the properties box in the class designer and would prefer to use the code editor to make those kinds of changes. It may not be obvious but one of the things you can do with that properties pane that you can't
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I'm getting a fair amount of questions about this topic lately so worth a blog entry. The best way to install any beta (or even more so CTP's) is to use Virtual PC. This will save you from having to reformat your entire machine a few times. I don't think
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In SQL Server 2005/Yukon you can create user defined types using managed code. User defined types can be used in declaring variable and table columns. It is generally considered to only make sense for scalar types - things that can be sorted, compared,
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As part of my annual hardware reduction project, I got rid of my desktop. For the past number of years, I've used both a laptop and a desktop. I think this has added a certain amount of disorganization to my life by having files frequently littered between
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Occassionaly I need to view an adobe illustrator file. I usually end up asking our graphics guy to create a PDF or jpeg. Sometimes I search for some freeware tool to convert or display, usually without much success. Today I thought I'd try using the new
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Monday, November 08, 2004 10:58 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2003, Tips, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
What does project management, test management, defect tracking, build servers, methodology, automated testing, code coverage, and software diagramming have to do with Halo 2? I'm not sure really, but if you want both - then you need to come to the Toronto
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I got a question today about a problematic assembly references during a build of a large project. Visual Studio projects have a user file (*.csproj,user, *.vbproj.user) that stores a “References Path”. You can edit this list of paths in your
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:41 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Events, Home, Newsletter
As part of the continuing MSDN User Group Tour, I'll be speaking at the Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group in Waterloo on Thursday October 7th (tomorrow night). There is a new location for the meeting at Agfa (formerly Mitra) in Waterloo. All
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