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 […]
Continue readingVisual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” Specifications
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 […]
Continue readingVerify AJAX Response using Generated Code from a Web Test
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. […]
Continue readingPageMethods and Firebug
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 […]
Continue readingEnable Accent Sensitive Search for MOSS
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 […]
Continue readingNanda Lella’s WebLog : Influence the future of Windows sdk : Powershell based build environment
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
Continue readingDownload details: Requirements Management with Team System White Paper
This white paper outlines how to use Visual Studio Team System for successful requirements management using Visual Studio Team System 2005 or Visual Studio Team System 2008. In addition, you can use this paper to learn about some of the challenges that Microsoft intends to address in the next release: Visual Studio Team System […]
Continue readingHP Blackbird 002 PC
This desktop looks awesome, talk about the Ultimate PC, it can be outfitted with a Intel Core2 Quad-Core CPU and 10,000 RPM SATA drives, and it can even hold 5TB of internal storage. Don’t mind me if I drool on for a while….you owe it to yourself to check it out. Wish I had […]
Continue readingSearch Server 2008 Express – RTM
Yes it is finally here, both the x32 and x64 version are now available for download. Search Server 2008 Express (x64) Search Server 2008 Express (x32) You may want to add the following to your enterprise search solution: MOSS Faceted Search installation only takes a few minutes and will improve the users search experience by […]
Continue readingThe Server Unleashed | Windows Server 2008
I have to admit I love these new videos about Windows Server 2008, the robot is too cool. Microsoft has wallpaper for download also, check it out. The entire site is driven by Silverlight.
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