Is it possible to add visual studio macro's to a solution, so they would be checked in by svn ?
If not, how do you deploy your utilities/scripts with your developer team ?
An important part of Agile is the concept of transparency and visibility. In proper functioning teams, stakeholders can look at any team at any time in the iteration or release and see how that team is doing by simply looking at what we call Big Visible Charts. If you’ve done Scrum, you’ve seen these charts. However, interpreting these charts can…
So, I am using visual studio 2005 (and team explorer 2005) with tfs 2008. I have installed both Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and VS80sp1-KB932544-X86-ENU.exe.
I perform the following steps:
Select Project-ASP.NET Configuration within Visual Studio 2005.
Within Visual Studio 2005, attempt to perform either a check-in or a checkout.
The following…
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I want to install SQL Server 2008 express. I have already Visual Studio 2008 Team System with SP1.
VS in help about shows me:
MVS version: 9.0.30729.1 SP
.NET Framework version: 3.5 SP1
but installator of SQL Server shows me that Visual Studio doesn't have SP1. Anyway I tricked up him by change in win registry HKLM Software Microsoft…
hi there, I've been asked to research outsourcing some of our C# winform development work. The aim is to employ a dedicated Indian team of around 5 developers reporting to myself.
A google search provides a plethora of different companies, none of which I have ever heard of before. I'm a little skeptical about this plan at the moment but…
I'm trying to find a good code review workflow for my team. Most questions similar to this on SO revolve around using shelved changes for the review, however I'm curious about how this works for people with larger teams.
We usually have 2-3 people working a story (UI person, Domain/Repository person, sometimes DB person). I've…
I am currently a single BI developer over a corporate datawarehouse and cube. I use SQL Server 2008, SSAS, and SSIS as my basic toolkit. I use Visual Studio +BIDS and TFS for my IDE and source control. I am about to take on multiple projects with an offshore vendor and I am worried about managing change. My major concern is…
If you were to self-fund a software project which tools, frameworks, components would you employ to ensure maximum productivity for the dev team and that the "real" problem is being worked on.
What I'm looking for are low friction tools which get the job done with a minimum of fuss. Tools I'd characterize as such are…
My dev team used in the past MKS Source Integrity source control and we are not evaluating to migrate to TFS 2010.
Some concepts and meaning are a bit different and we need sometime to learn how to do the same things we do before in TFS or how to change our approach.
First of all, we used to do Checkpoints for each…
I hope I am not repeating any previously asked question.
Anyway, so Google Wave is nice and shiny and sounds like a lot of folks(at least at Google I/O :) used it in a useful for work(!) way. I've been beta-testing Google Wave for sometime now, but can't quite grasp how to improve our workflow using it. We have a…
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I'm trying to display the page title (html title) on the default.aspx page of a custom site template. The template is based on a MOSS team site template.
All that displays is the URL of the page as the page title. Can I change the code in the default.aspx and/or the sites master page to define the title…
The team explorer for my project looks like this:
mytfsserver\mycollection
-- Project 1 solution
-- Project 2 solution
-- Project 3 solution
When I right click on one of the solutions and do a "Show Project Portal", I see the following hierarchy:
mycollection - WSS site
Project 1 site with dashboard…
I am in need of a software that is PHP-Based, or similar that can be installed on my server that doesn't offer SVN Perks. It should be somewhat similar to an SVN, however, since the server doesn't support SVN, we'll need another means of doing sort of the same thing. We have a team of Developers and…
I have used Maven extensively for my personal projects, but now I have to set it up for a small team of 5-7 developers.
My main question is, what's the recommended approach for managing dependencies to commercial libraries that are not available in the Maven repos? How can I manage the dependency of…
We just started to use scrum for our project management. We are a very small team (2 developers, 1 UI/Web-deisgner ) and we have a lot of running projects at once.
How do you handle having multiple projects running at once in the scrum model? Most of the time we have a main projects and some small…
I'm trying to set up our TFS 2008 instance to require that projects build before they can be checked in.
I have created a check-in policy using the out of the box "Builds" policy, but I'm still able to check broken projects in after mangling the code and attempting to build the project.
We're a…
I'm trying to find a good code review workflow for my team. Most questions similar to this on SO revolve around using shelved changes for the review, however I'm curious about how this works for people with larger teams.
We usually have 2-3 people working a story (UI person, Domain/Repository…
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I have a team of 10 persons who work on word documents, they format them as per our defined guidlines. To complete the work fast we have created a macro that has been updated on all the machines. This macro corrects the font, size and formatting.
How can I ensure and implement that nobody…
Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artifacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc... . Known Issues/Limitations Customizing the generated report by changing the template, adding…
In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase AssemblyVersion Part 6: Use custom type for an argument Part 7:…
So far in this series we have looked at creating asset within the
EMOC BUI but the Exalogic 2.0.1 installation also provide the Iaas
cli as an alternative to most of the common functionality
available within EMOC. The IaaS cli interface provides access to
the…
In the series the following parts have been published
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Add arguments and variables
Part 3: Use more complex arguments
Part 4: Create your own activity
Part 5: Increase AssemblyVersion
Part 6: Use custom type for an argument
Part 7: How is the…
Why isn't the use of KnownType attribute in C# sufficient for inclusion of a DLL? Working with Visual Studio 2012 with TFS responsible for builds, I am on a project in which a service required use of this attribute as in the following:
using…
Last week I posted about looking into the keyboard locking up issue in Visual Studio. So far it looks like not a lot of people have replied to provide concrete repro steps, which confirms my suspicion that this is somewhat of a random…
If you ever need to bring up a computer with InfiniBand networking
capabilities and diagnostic tools, without even going through any
installation on its hard disk, then please read on. In this article, I
am going to talk about how to…