There's a few things I'm really liking about Microsoft of late. One is how much effort they are putting into products like TFS to make them truly amazing products. The second is how they are being transparent about so much of it. Take for example their work on TFS. This beast of a product is powering almost all their internal development (only a few teams remain – according to a Joe...
Seems to be working fine (according to Etienne), but with some manual steps required.
Brian Harry explains why. As Brian notes, this was a fresh install of W2K8, and the real pain will come when upgrading from W2K3.
Technorati Tags: TFS 2008, Windows 2008
Scott has announced the ASP.NET Wiki Beta.
Looks like a good resource. Publishing guidelines are here.
(via Computer Zen)
Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, Wiki
PROBLEM: Adobe Download Manager hides files on your hard disk. As a result your install doesn't work, and further you can't find the hidden files to delete them. SOLUTION: Find the hidden files underneath the \Temporary Internet Files\ directory DETAILS: If you've downloaded an Adobe product lately using their Download Manager you might have got frustrated because you suddenly found...
It's easy to change the icons on your desktop in Vista if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel.
Simply hold down your CTRL key and scroll your mouse.
Forward to larger, back for smaller.
Technorati Tags: Tip, Vista, Desktop icon size
Another one I didn't realise existed… IE7 has a simple way of adding other Search engines to the Search box. Just choose the Find more providers… option. The one I use the most is the Wikipedia option – it's very handy to search for a term on Google (my default engine) and the also check it out on Wikipedia just using the drop down. (Firefox and other browsers have...
TechCrunch went into meltdown with the news. CNN covered it live. And Super Tuesday has been rescheduled to cope with the disruption… Amazingly though, in what I can only imagine is an embarrassing oversight, there was no press release about it. In possibly the tiniest launch announcement I've ever seen (you'll need hours to read through this comprehensive overview – NOT)...
Download it here.
(via Maarten Van Stam)
Technorati Tags: VSTO, Runtime
Further to my post about career plans for developers at Elcom, I wanted to mention the approach of encouraging staff to build their personal profiles. It can be summed up in this attitude: Your job (as a developer and employee) is to be so good that you are being chased by head-hunters all the time. My job (as Technical Director) is to make the work environment so good that you don't want to...
Microsoft Code GalleryOne of things I found myself saying when going through the excellent How Do I videos is: Where's the code? Here's the answer.Thanks Microsoft. (via Beth Massi and Soma) Also check out wOOdy's Visual FoxPro code snippets. Complaints I don't usually like to complain when something good like this comes out, but gee I wish Microsoft could improve the whole user...