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I'm just passing along some information that has been making the rounds (I found it on Guy Burstein's blog). If you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 on a machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed, it will fail. The requirement is to have VS 2008 SP1 installed, an update that is still about a week away from release. And you need the 'real' ...

Are you a design & mac user in a Windows Development Shop? Are they eyeing your Mac and measuring your desk to outfit you with a new PC? Over your cold dead corpse I bet. No worries. You owe it to yourself to check out the Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription.  Yeah, you could run Bootcamp but then you'd loose the OS X & ...

Microsoft has made quite a few changes to reports in TFS 2008. As you can see form the table below in TFS 2008 we do not only have 6 new reports, but some of the existing reports have been modified/removed (new reports are in red, removed reports are in orange). TFS 2005 default reportsTFS 2008 default reportsActual Quality vs Planned ...

The Team Foundation Build Server at one of our clients was getting out of hand. We set up continuous integration so we are getting a lot of builds per day. The server had hundreds of builds that we just didn't need hanging around anymore. We asked our IT guy extraordinaire, Max if he could write us a script to automate the cleanup of TFS Builds. ...

In case you didn't catch this S. Somasegar announced today during his TechEd Developers Keynote in Barcelona that Visual Studio 2008 will ship by the end of this month (November!). Yeah! Most people were counting on this before the end of the year which mean December or early January so this comes as a nice surprise. We're talking about some cool ...

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 for Developers 2005, suppressions were stored as attributes in front of blocks of code. ...

Did you know there are two ways to Deploy files to be used when executing unit tests in VSTS.   You can added them to the .Testrunconfig:     Or using the DeploymentItem attribute on the ...

Two great tools come together to make our lives easier.  I have been a fan of Snagit for many many years, and more recently Camtasia, both from Techsmith. Now snagit has a hook into Team Foundation Server, allowing you to create a Work Item from a Snapshot of a screen. Using the tried and true features of snagit to capture a portion of your ...

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't seem to end. At the moment, we're looking to add some consultants to our team. ...