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Windows Live Writer and ZoomIt
Two tools I absolutely love! Windows Live Writer A new version was just released, June 2nd. Download it here . Sysinternals ZoomIt Version 2.0 was released on May 28. I just downloaded that version myself and it has some nice features. However, I did...
Posted: Jun 05 2008, 10:17 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Programmatically creating an IIS7 site
I'm using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder is a great product, but our client is using Windows Server 2008 and FinalBuilder does not have actions for IIS7. I might add the actions to my weblog, but here's...
Posted: May 16 2008, 03:52 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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CopySourceAsHtml 2008
I was looking for CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason it's not on the 'official' page so I had to search for it. There are multiple versions, but on Guy Burstein's blog there's more information and the only...
Posted: Apr 02 2008, 02:42 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Refactor! Pro
I just finished the two day Professional Agile Programming course in which I introduced developers to some best practices and such, including a view over some good practices from methodologies (XP/Scrum/MSF). For this course I've been in contact with...
Posted: Feb 04 2008, 09:18 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 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: Aug 22 2007, 10:41 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 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: Jun 20 2007, 12:27 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Zoom-in on 'watch popup'
During his 'Applied Linq' presentation at the Developer Days 2007, Alex Thisse n tried to zoom-in on some variable. I have no idea how this popup is called, but it's kind of a watch in a popup, therefor a 'watch popup' ? Anyhow, Alex...
Posted: Jun 14 2007, 11:50 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Paste XML as serializable type
I had the privilege to see Steve Maine do some coding in a Microsoft SDR session after MIX07. While coding, he showed this cool tool that's in the BizTalk Services SDK. He was showing something he had build and copied a bit of XML into the clipboard and...
Posted: May 05 2007, 11:35 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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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: Mar 28 2007, 11:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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"Orcas" March CTP & EntLib 3.0 Feb CTP
What a week! Both the new Visual Studio "Orcas" and Enterprise Library 3.0 CTPs are released. Enterprise Library got some fixes and the new Policy Injection Application Block is now included. I'm very much interested in it as it'll give a lot of new possibilities...
Posted: Mar 01 2007, 10:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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FileMon saved my career!
Okay, maybe I should be more careful with titles, but it is a catchy one! ;-) On my fresh pc I had to install the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and during install, my laptop crashed. I know, please don't start about XP vs. Vista anymore. But anyway...
Posted: Feb 28 2007, 10:43 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Reflector 5.0 released!
This is great news! Reflector 5 is out! And the best .NET Developer tool around has some new cool functions! Reflector 5.0 Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins @ CodePlex Reflector 5.0 New Features (PPT) You can now use uri's to let Reflector navigate to a method or...
Posted: Feb 20 2007, 03:02 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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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: Dec 21 2006, 01:55 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Mozy
I was reading Steve Eichert's weblog when he mentioned Mozy, an online backup service. For $4.95 per month you'll get 50GB of backup storage. Even better, you can get 2GB for free! If you're interested, be sure to check the following link: Mozy Free 2GB...
Posted: Dec 18 2006, 09:32 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Display WCF host details; code snippet
Because I'm doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series , I host a lot of WCF services inside a console application. Console applications are great for demonstrating something really quickly. When hosting a WCF service in a console application...
Posted: Nov 28 2006, 02:31 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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