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Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:45 AM

SP1 Draft documentation

The Visual Studio Team System User Education site has draft guidance on SP1. I am, of course, most interested in the custom controls in work items for the project TeamPatter which has been waiting on this and the merge history which will be greatly utilized
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Friday, September 29, 2006 5:16 PM

Be patient... be very patient. Oh, also uninstall web application projects

My experience in installing VSTS SP1 beta is be patient. Be very patient. I found on every machine in which I performed the install it consumed massive amounts of ram, all of the cpu resources it could grab and took an inordinately long time. One significant
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:00 PM

MojoPac

Now this I have to try... http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.js... I imagine it's using a virtual PC in the backend but still pretty cool. Technorati Tags: MojoPac , Ipod
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:54 PM

Can hardly wait to dig in...

I can hardly wait to dig into these things which I have long anticipated and greatly need... bravo WIT Custom Control support - This is a cool new feature. It is a mechanism by which people can design work item forms that host custom controls. The data
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:44 PM

TFS SP1 Beta...

All I can say is Yippee! Check any of your favorite MSFT Team System blogs, such as Brian Harry's blog , for the info no need for me to repeat more than I just did. http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:38 AM

Forthcoming posts...

A reminder for me as much as any thing else and in no particular order... Vista RC1, Acronis True Image, and Virtual Machines Why is my Virtual Server a dog (and it's on a real server)? ughhhhh... A kind of vacation BlogJet, Onfolio and my former life
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:16 AM

Another (2) Live Writer Thingy...

I also ran into the following issue with Live Writer ( see previous post ). If you mark an image for left text wrapping and end your text before it exceeds the length of the image you get what shows up in the image below. Makes sense but not what I wanted-
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:01 AM

Windows Live Writer Beta- an issue

I am currently using Windows Live Writer beta Version 1.0 (109) as my blogging tool. I shifted over to try out Windows Live Writer when I kept hearing such great things about the tool. I have yet to stop using it despite having BlogJet setting on the
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Friday, September 22, 2006 9:00 AM

Vacation and Vertigo

This time it's a cross post from my old blog.... Vacation and a Beta . Technorati Tags: CodePlex , Vertigo , Michael Ruminer
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Friday, September 22, 2006 8:38 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 is here!

Woohoo. The Visual Studio SDK V3 RTM has arrived. This is great news and also a departure from the historic distribution of the SDK which was only available via the Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) site. I'm glad to see the move of the SDK into
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Friday, September 15, 2006 11:55 PM

Note to self...

This is really a note to self... blog this. http://sanjaynarang.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/whats... I definitely have something to add here and it just so happens it is also a deliverable for something other than my blog. :-)
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Friday, September 15, 2006 11:31 PM

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool - New Release

Glad to see the new release of the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool on CodePlex . Not lots of changes but a few, two of which I am glad to have contributed - items 125 and 110. Keep the requests coming in. I have a million I need to add myself
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:34 AM

More reports, yippee!

If you are always wishing for more reports and never seem to have the time to make them all then you need to take a look at a post on Tom Patton's blog that contains a whole set of reports. Bravo Tom for posting these. If you'd like a sneak preview of
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:06 AM

IEEE Software Magazine and CodePlex

I recently had a discussion on CodePlex with Danna Voth for an article in IEEE Software Magazine. You can find a copy of the article at: http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/so/2006/05/s5096.pdf I need to get hold of them. I was attributed a quote that
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:15 PM

Recommendations in SCM Branching Patterns in TFS

With the transition from Visual Source Safe (VSS) to Team Foundation Server (TFS) the power of branching in source code control becomes much more readily available. The increased ease of branching and merging bring with it the need to consider patterns
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