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Last night I gave a presentation to the Toronto SharePoint Users Group on using Visual Studio 2008 to build SharePoint Workflows. I also covered a little bit on LINQ to SharePoint and WCF/WF integration at the end. Attached are my slides. Enjoy.
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via Soma Back in the days of fxCop, (before we had to pay for code analysis in Team Developer) if you didn't like an error/warning, you could have your request to ignore said message in an external central file. With the advent of Visual Studio Team Editions
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Congratulations are in order for Tony Cavaliere, a fellow ObjectSharp Consultant. Tony is a self confessed addict of the TVO show The Agenda and when Microsoft Canada announced the competition for building Vista sidebar gadgets, Tony jumped on the chance
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As an early Christmas present, Microsoft released a welcome service pack for Visual Studio 2005 last week. There's downloads available for each appropriate edition including the team foundation server. Check the download pages for releases notes as well.
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<rant> At least not yet. There's lots of disgruntledness in the community about Microsoft own lack of preparedness. If you bought a Zune and run vista, you'll have to resort to some hacking to get your new toy to sync up. Want to run Visual Studio
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With Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), Microsoft has add some impressive development capability to build solutions on top of Excel, Word and even Outlook now. You may have even heard that notion that Office can be considered part of the Application
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So we have a few service packs to talk about.... Firstly, Visual Studio 2005, SP1 is now in beta testing. This is a fairly big service pack, lots of bug fixes, and the odd new feature. The list is not complete of things fixed yet but Microsoft promises
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If you're developing custom MSBuild Tasks, and you're interested in testing them (and you should) using NUnit or VSTS there are a few considerations. The first is the strategy you want to adopt for testing the custom task. In the spirit of “Unit” testing,
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I'll be speaking at the Chicago .NET Users Group in Downers Grove on March 15th Stay tuned for details.... http://www.cnug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=31
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This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team
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I'm in British Columbia for a few days for the Vancouver stop of the Canadian Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. They are expecting a great turnout - should be one of the largest MS events in town in recent memory. Last night we had a User Group
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One of the questions we got during the Q&A of the Ottawa VS Launch yesterday was around problems in migrating ASP.NET applications from 2002/2003 to 2005. The Web Platform Team has put together a nice step-by-step guide that covers some best practices
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This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch
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Community Thoughts Werner Moise has been “reflecting” on LINQ and the more time he spends, the more he's realizing “how well thought out and practical it is”. He has some excellent points. Dinesh wants to know how you feel about
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On XLinq A lot of the questions about XLinq are around how it will sit beside/replace XQuery (and other XML query/transform techniques). Back when I first started doing some .NET 2.0 training in February, I was a bit miffed that XQuery had not made it
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