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I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009
Thanks to the many votes we received on our wildcard proposals from attendees, colleagues and community members, Pieter Joost van de Sande , Dennis Doomen , Michael van der Veeken and me have won a timeslot on next week’s Microsoft Developer Days. I’ll...
Posted: Tue, May 19 2009 1:24 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Stopwatch snippet
A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets...
Posted: Wed, Jun 11 2008 12:00 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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MSBuild tasks for Team Foundation Server
I've experienced editing Team Foundation Server builds by hand and I didn't like it. Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's very complex and troublesome. I want some more 'advanced' stuff in my build process, like preparing...
Posted: Wed, Aug 22 2007 10:41 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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TFS Get latest version on checkout
As most Team Foundation Server (TFS) users will know by now, upon checkout of a file from source control, the latest version isn't retrieved. For a lot of users very odd, while this was the cast in Visual Source Safe. This is actually by design. And...
Posted: Wed, Jun 20 2007 12:27 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2008, VS2008 Shell and SQL Server 2008
At MIX07 new stuff was announced , at TechEd 2007 in Orlando names of products have been announced. Visual Studio 2008 "Orcas" has been renamed to Visual Studio 2008. It's a bit strange so few people have yet to blog about it, the only real...
Posted: Tue, Jun 5 2007 9:51 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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TeamPlain freely downloadable
On march 26, 2007 it was announced that TeamPlain is now freely downloadable for Team Foundation Server customers as a result of Microsoft's acquisition of devBiz , creators of this excellent product. This is great news, as customers who paid a lot of...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28 2007 11:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Beta
Just recently Service Pack 1 was released ( Beta! ) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, the Vista update had a link, but it was removed. Miguel blogged that the beta version is online! This update is required because of the security enhancements to Windows...
Posted: Thu, Dec 21 2006 1:55 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available!
And suddenly it's there... Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 (includes SP1 updates for Standard, Professional, and Team Editions of Visual Studio 2005) Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1 Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions SP1 Visual Studio...
Posted: Fri, Dec 15 2006 9:29 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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Bitslapping contest : LX vs Compile on Test integration in VS2005, part 2 response
Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bit-stick around. Thinks he can just slap me around and walk away with a smile, huh? Well, I'm not done with round 1 Alex. Round 1 Reflector integration Thank you for the point, Alex. +1 Dennis...
Posted: Mon, Nov 13 2006 2:49 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM
Some time ago I had a discussion with my colleague Alex Thissen about the differences between Visual Studio 2005 (unit) testing, and NUnit and TestDriven.NET. I'm very pro NUnit, but Alex says he can do everything I do with VS2005. I disagreed and we...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8 2006 9:56 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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CodePlex, the GotDotNet for TFS
CodePlex is a new website launched by Microsoft last week. I have a hard team keeping up with all the rss feeds (1000+ unread posts) so perhaps this was thrown all over the internet, I just didn't know! ;-) Anyway, we all know GotDotNet is the open source...
Posted: Tue, Jun 13 2006 7:30 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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TFS MSSCII Provider
I was at a client yesterday, who wanted to migrate from Source Safe and a lot of other tools, to Team Foundation Server. Problem was, they stil had some older VB6/ASP projects, and of course a lot of .NET 1.1 projects. For a lot of reasons, these cannot...
Posted: Wed, May 3 2006 8:53 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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VS 2005 Web application project RC available
At my current project we've been working with the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project since some weeks. Source Safe kept bugging us by checking in everything in the web-folder(s), so we decided to use the WebApp Project template. In our situation...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6 2006 11:40 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Team Foundation Server shipped
Just got the word from Marc , that Team Foundation Server will ship today, according to this article on ActiveWin. Rob Caron also mentioned it. Too bad it can't be downloaded from MSDN, we'll have to find another way to play around with it in our Lab...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17 2006 1:52 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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VS 2005 Test-Driven Development?
Unfortunately Visual Studio 2005 RTM isn't online , as Jeffrey Palermo ' promised '. Strange enough his post has been removed from his blog. In his last post, he talks about what MSDN says about Test-Driven Development . Microsoft advises people to draw...
Posted: Tue, Oct 18 2005 10:47 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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