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What Wikipedia says about ALM: Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management , architecture , coding , testing , tracking , and release management . Like most people know...
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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 be talking about creating a build and doing continuous...
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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 folder and paste the following in the file...
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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 a build for our test environment but also for our...
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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 this time "by design" doesn't mean...
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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 reference I could find was at Darryl Burling 's...
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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 money for TFS had to lay down some extra money (per...
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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 Vista. One of the biggest problems was the debugger...
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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 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Beta There are...
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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 Code coverage Alex should've checked out the...
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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 talked about bitchslapping, or perhaps some bitslapping...
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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 repository for developers where they are able...
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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 always just be upgraded to .NET 2.0. Conversion...
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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 the web application was used for our webservice...
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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 .