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Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition Web Test Recorder causes Internet Explorer 7.0 crash

January 15, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment

Just recently had an issue with Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition recording a web test. The user would add a new web test and when IE 7.0 was launched and the URL to the website was entered the browser would crash. It turned out that if McAfee VirusScan 8.0i was installed […]

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Team System

Team Foundation Sidekicks Version 2.0 by Attrice

January 11, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

The installation package includes Code Review Sidekick, Shelveset Sidekick, Labels Sidekick, History Sidekick, Workspace Sidekick and Status Sidekick in stand-alone application as well as Visual Studio Integration Package with Code Review Sidekick, Search Items dialog, dynamic History and Build Type editing functionality. more… Technorati Tags: TFS, Team Foundation Server 2005/2008

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Manage your TFS email alerts (Event Subscriptions)

January 10, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Sometimes you just want to be able to see all of the event subscriptions you are subscribed to. This tool allows you to subscribe/unsubscribe to events in Team Foundation Server, it is equivalent to the bissubscribe.exe command line tool. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS

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Team System

I was presented with a Microsoft MVP Award for Visual Developer – Team System

January 2, 2008 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Yesterday morning I received an email congratulating me on my award, I would like to say I am very excited about receiving this. I have enjoyed very much helping the Ottawa .NET Community and will continue to in 2008. All I can say is WOW! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System, MVP

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Have a very Merry Christmas. I can’t wait for the Turkey dinner!

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Visual Studio 2008 Add-ons you’ll want to install

December 24, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Templates Web Deployment Projects Silverlight 1.1 tools ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools If you’ve got a Team Foundation Server you might want to install these as well: Team Foundation Server Power Tools Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Team Explorer 2008 I put this […]

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VS 2008

Storyboard Designer – A Visual Studio Shell application sample

December 19, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

If you have been looking for a StoryBoarding tool you might want to check out this project on CodePlex which integrates into the Visual Studio IDE. Storyboard Designer – A Visual Studio Shell application sample

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A developer’s strayings : Don’t let IE local cache drive you crazy!

December 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

This is a great blog post for web developers, and also one of the reasons I use the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar and set the option Cache | Always Refresh from Server as I have been burned by this issue myself before. A developer’s strayings : Don’t let IE local cache drive you crazy! […]

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ASP.NET 2.0

Oracle 11g R1 x64 on Vista

December 16, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I installed the latest version of Oracle 11g R1 from their download site. The only issue I have experienced after the installation was done is that "nmefwmi.exe" crashes. This process is linked to the OracleDBConsole service. The only way I have gotten around this error is to stop the OracleDBConsole service. The database itself is […]

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ASP.NET Ajax Extensions and SharePoint Service 3.0 SP1

December 14, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments

I got the Office Server SP1 installed on my MOSS development machine the other day and thought it would be a great time to try building a Ajax WebPart. These are the steps I did to prepare my WSS/MOSS environment for the Ajax Extensions: Download the ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions and installed them Modified the […]

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Windows SharePoint Services