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January 2008 - Posts

When Transparency is not enough

Last Friday I was speaking with a friend about the value of transparency. With Team Foundation Server it's possible to be completely transparent about current and previous projects. Everybody (or better, every login that we trust ) could access reports, Read More
posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:32 PM by barbilor | 1 Comments

What happens when a Working Folder is removed from a Workspace

Team Foundation Server has the notion of Workspaces (Working with Version Control Workspaces on MSDN for more details). One of the things that "scare" users the first time they use Workspaces is what happens when a Working Folder mapping is removed (or Read More
posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:09 PM by barbilor | 3 Comments

Book Review: I. M. WRIGHT'S "HARD CODE"

This is the best book ever published by Microsoft Press. PERIOD! Eric Brechner already has one of the best blogs on MSDN, but he also have written a great book. The book is the collection of 49 "Hard Code" columns that were first published on some Microsoft Read More
posted Monday, January 07, 2008 3:33 PM by barbilor | 2 Comments
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Book review: Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System

This book covers Visual Studio Team System from a different perspective. It shows how to use VSTS and TFS to help in outsourcing scenarios. It's one of the most addictive and complete book about VSTS and TFS, because it covers most of the topics with Read More
posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:58 PM by barbilor | 3 Comments
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Always show solution

Visual Studio by default doesn't show the Solution under Solution Explorer if there is only one project. For example, I've created a Visual C# Windows Application called "WindowsApplication123" in a solution called "Solution123", and left the default Read More
posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:36 PM by barbilor | 1 Comments

Configuring Test Project defaults

One complaint made by new users of Visual Studio Team System 2005 (Tester, Developer and Suite) is that when they have a Visual C# Project and they select "Create Unit Tests" from the context menu, the Test Project is created by default in VB, and not Read More
posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:54 PM by barbilor | 2 Comments

MVP Award: I was awarded for the third year

I just received the MVP Award for the third year. I'm MVP Visual Developer - Team System for the second consecutive year. It's really an honor to be part of this group with a lot of enthusiastic people. Technorati Tags: MVP Read More
posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:17 PM by barbilor | 1 Comments