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Ignoring Static Analysis Warnings, Centrally

via Soma Back in the days of fxCop, (before we had to pay for code analysis in Team Developer) if you didn't like an error/warning, you could have your request to ignore said message in an external central file. With the advent of Visual Studio Team Editions Read More...

Visual Studio and Team Systems Service Pack Betas

So we have a few service packs to talk about.... Firstly, Visual Studio 2005, SP1 is now in beta testing. This is a fairly big service pack, lots of bug fixes, and the odd new feature. The list is not complete of things fixed yet but Microsoft promises Read More...

Unit Testing Custom MSBuild Tasks

If you're developing custom MSBuild Tasks, and you're interested in testing them (and you should) using NUnit or VSTS there are a few considerations. The first is the strategy you want to adopt for testing the custom task. In the spirit of “Unit” testing, Read More...

How Do I Revert a Changest in Team Foundation Source Control?

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 Read More...

Hello 2.0

This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch Read More...

Access VSTS information - from Unix, Mac, and Eclipse with Teamprise

This is often a common push back or at least concern with big shops whom are considering adopting Team Foundation. How do we integrate our Java Developers (or non .NET Developers) into the Zen of Team System? Enter TeamPrise . This looks like a serious Read More...

Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 - Release Candidate Now Available

The VS Team Suite Release Candidate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I'm downloading now - I'm assuming you'll also need the Sql Server 2005 September CTP which was also released today. Happy downloading. Read More...

Release Date for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, BizTalk 2006

At TechEd today, Paul Flessner announced that these products will be released the week of November 7th. Also of interest is that SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services will be available in the express edition. Report Builder will also be pushed down into Read More...

DevTeach Conference in Montreal

I'm going to be heading out in a couple of weeks to DevTeach in Montreal. In addition to my regular session talk on Datasets, I'll also be participating in an architecture panel discussion as part of Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montréal, Software Architecture Read More...

Why the VSTS Logical Datacenter Designer (er, Deployment Designer) Sucks

I've had this question in many of the VSTS bootcamps I'm teaching across canada. “From my Application Diagram, how do I create a deployment diagram that shows my web application and database being deployed on the same box“. So I posed the Read More...
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