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WIWA — Work Item Web Access

April 9, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


This enables the "file-a-bug" scenario for the unlicensed TFS user. As a user without a TFS CAL, you can use Work Item Web Access to perform the following tasks:   Create new work items Edit the work item you have created See the list of work items you have created Download the CTP release for […]

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Get Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.1! – Team Foundation Sidekicks

April 9, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Release 2.1 is available now. Features Code Review Sidekick: code review by work item is available (selecting changesets through associated work items) Code Review Sidekick: list of associated work items is available for changesets reviewed Code Review Sidekick: filtering of items revisions list by user or file name is available Shelveset Sidekick: saving of the […]

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Windows Live for Windows Mobile

April 7, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


There is now a version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile, (Messenger not included) that is available for download at http://wl.windowsmobile.com. If you’re in Canada (Roger’s has no unlimited data plan) you may not want to SYNC your account for the first time using your DATA plan, as it could end up costing you a […]

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Windows Mobile 6.0

Heroes happen {here} – Hands On Lab Manuals

April 6, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Just a reminder, we have two events this week related to the Heroes Happen {Here} 2008 Technical Readiness Tour and here they are — Register if you haven’t already: Heroes Happen Here – Community Connection Event (Ottawa) Wednesday April 09, 2008 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern Time Fenn Lounge, 227 Residence Commons – […]

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VS 2008

Download details: Visual Studio® Team System 2008 VSTS VPC Image (Trial)

March 29, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The updated VPC has been released along with the Hands on Labs.  This image is set to expire December 31st, 2008.    This virtual machine is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition w/SP2. It contains a full installation of Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Build 2008, Team Explorer 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite […]

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Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” Specifications

March 28, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


This is an opportunity for you to help shape future releases of VSTS, this page lists the specifications in for new features coming in the CTPs. You can provide feed back here to the discussion forum. These features are currently under development: Add to Source Control History Improvements Improved Label Dialog Resolve Improvements Codename “TFS […]

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Verify AJAX Response using Generated Code from a Web Test

March 26, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Yesterday while doing a web test demo I was asked whether the response from the web service call could actually be verified.  Here is a screen shot of the web test recording.   The web test itself doesn’t let me see the response but what you can do is generate code from the web test. […]

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PageMethods and Firebug

March 18, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Last night I was debugging an error in a Virtual Earth javascript library about PageMethods, I doubled checked everything and my method was decorated correctly, it was public and static….still no help IE kept giving me an error.  It turned out the error was extremely misleading. I downloaded FireFox installed Firebug into it and […]

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ASP.NET 3.5

Enable Accent Sensitive Search for MOSS

March 18, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I was recently asked this question, while I knew it was possible I didn’t know off hand whether it was a Central Administration setting or run a command at the prompt.  It turned out to be a command option of stsadm, shown below: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>stsadm -o oSearchdiacriticsensitive -ssp sharedServices1 -setStatus TRUE […]

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Windows SharePoint Services

Nanda Lella’s WebLog : Influence the future of Windows sdk : Powershell based build environment

March 12, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


This is an amazing idea, it would make msbuild a much more powerful environment.  Think of all the cmdlets that could be made and used during the build process.   Nanda Lella’s WebLog : Influence the future of Windows sdk : Powershell based build environment

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