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According to Somasegar’s blog, VS2010 and .NET 4 is available to download for MSDN subscribers. Downloading :) If you visit Somasegar’s blog, also check out his post about SketchFlow, which looks interesting. I need to explor that a bit more.

Before christmas I needed to change TFS Source Control Server and the original server was not available anymore (and also the reason to why we had to change). After a couple of failed attempts I found this blog post (which also linked to this) and it worked out really well.

In Team Foundation Server 2008 there is a new licensing policy that enables limited TFS access so that it is now possible to let the customers do bug reporting for example. Microsoft now have a first CTP of a limited Team System Web Access tool called Work Item Web Access (read more in bharry's post here). Bharry also blogs about a new spec for a ...

Just what I was looking for - a list of all the URLs to the VPC-parts, easy to add to a download manager. Steve got the links from Martin Danner and I'm passing the links on :) Martin Danner has passed along a list of the URLs to use to download the TFS/VSTS 2008 Trial VPC using Free Download Manager.  Just copy the list and paste (using ...

Just the other day (February 27), pattern & practices released the Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008. This is great news! To get it up and running I installed the following tools: Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0 (this is needed because it contains the DSL Toolkit). Guidance Automation Extensions ...

Parts of what is included in the Oslo vision is to make modeling even more important. They will do this by creating a new modeling language and tools, which will be the replacement of the Whitehorse-tools. The backward compatibility was ensured at several times though. Today TFS, BizTalk and System center all has their own model repository, but ...

TechEd keynote this year is presented by S. Somasegar (Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, Microsoft) and we've got some great seating not far from the stage (super early bid benefit).   Announcment: Microsoft Sync Framework CTPSoftware + Services Blueprints from pattern & practices Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 ...

Since I started to move some of my projects to Visual Studio 2008, I suddenly got a lot more warnings from Code Analysis. Today I took the effort to work through the list of the new warnings (I had zero in VS 2005). It turned out that most of them were spell checking warnings and Saml was not a recognized word, but very common in these projects. I ...

I picked up the blog post written by Buck Hodges today about some of the new features related to Build in TFS 2008. I'm glad to see CI built into the product and better control of the build process as well as better support for editing the build steps. Not that I fear editing some XML, but GUI support is always welcome as long as you can do some ...

Microsoft has released a handful tools for DBPro which can be downloaded from here. There are more information GertD's blog.

Service Release 1 is now available for download.

I've bloged about some problems we've had with Visual Studio Database Professional (VSDBPro) and now is a public CTP of Service Release 1 available according to Gertd. I haven't tested it, but I've heard that SR1 should solve at least some of the problems, and also some others like running on Vista.   From now on and until the beginning of next ...

I written a couple of post about Datadude by now, and unfortunately both of them have been about issues that I've had, so I thought it would be about time that I wrote about something that I like :) I've used the possibility to create database unit tests, manly to test some user defined functions that I have created, but also some stored ...

I recently blogged about some issues we've had with Datadude, and this is a post about yet another problem. The problem arise when we use schema compare, making a compare between the physical database and the project. When we do this we get differences, that actually does not exists, and I believe, that this too is related to caching.   If you ...

I'm now working on a project where we are building a couple of Entity Services/Data Services, all of them having their own database (of course). When setting up this projects, we decided to use Team System for Database Professional (Datadude), mostly to get the possibility to get good source control of all things that goes into a database, and ...

Rob Caron just wrote:The February release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tool is now available for download. Formerly known as the Team Foundation Power Toy, these utilities pack too much punch to be considered toys.I'm very interested in the "Test Tools Build Task". Seems to be what I'm looking for. Cross-posted ...

This post will continue my exploration of programming Outlook 2007, by showing how to get information from Team System Foundation Server (TFS). The idea is that in the option page (I bloged about it here) you set up projects that you want to keep track of your time for. At least some of these projects will also exists in TFS (if you use TFS), and ...

Team Edition for Database Professionals is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads as a 3.7 Gb file, but if you already have Team Suite installed you can instead download the Trail Version from here, which is only 19.2 Mb. The one on MSDN Subscriber Downloads is complete with Visual Studio and all, while the trial version only contains the new ...

So finally Service Pack 1 is released (as Johan blogged about here in swedish) and I hope that it fixes some of the issues we have had since we started out move to Team System. Notice though that SP1 for Visual Studio on Vista is still in beta and will probably be released when Vista is publicly available in January.   Update: It takes quite a ...

I've been doing an add-in for Outlook 2007 during my spare time, since Office 2007 and VSTO 2 SE was released. The add-in is supposed to help me to have control over how I spend my time and ease my administration. We use Excel templates for monthly time sheets, travel expenses and some other internal administrative things. Even though the output ...