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TFS2013: Ways to add a linked child Task a Product Backlog Item (PBI)
A couple of days ago a customer asked me what the best way to add new Task to a Product Backlog Item (PBI) during the Daily Scrum meeting or a Scrum Sprint Planning meeting. When I started working on the reply, I realized that there are quite a few ways to add a related child…
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Install Guide
[May 28, 2014 Update: there’s a new version of this guide] I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with Team Foundation Server 2013 lately and I’ve done a handful of installs. I created an installation guide with screenshots of each step to help make the process go more smoothly. At the moment, it only has Chapters for…
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How to Create Custom Performance Monitor (PerfMon) Counters
I’ve been helping a customer develop some Visual Studio 2010 Web Performance Tests and Load Tests for their application. Basically, they have an estimate in mind for how many simultaneous users they need to support and want to verify that they can actually handle this load. Their application is a Silverlight front-end that talks to…
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Run Azure Development Storage from Visual Studio Unit Tests
I wrote an article a while back for SearchWinDevelopment.com showing you how to start Azure Development Storage from Visual Studio unit tests. It just recently got posted on their site. Use Azure development storage from unit tests by Benjamin Day If you’re writing an application that’s going to use Windows Azure, you have two options…
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Cancelled: Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 10/2 — Jesse Liberty, "Skinning Silverlight Controls"
Update 10/2/2008: Unfortunately, Jesse Liberty is ill and won’t be able to make it tonight. This meeting has been cancelled and Jesse will be speaking at our December 4, 2008 meeting. -Ben Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, October 2nd. For our October meeting, we have Jesse Liberty from Microsoft presenting “Skinning…
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Custom, Stateful Object Data Source For ASP.NET
The ObjectDataSource that’s been in ASP.NET for the last few releases is has always seemed really cool but — well — only almost useful. If you want to do data access logic directly in your ASP.NET form’s code, then the ASP.NET ObjectDataSource is great. For those of us who can’t, won’t, or don’t do data…
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VSLive New York 2008 — Architect LINQ To SQL End-to-End
I just wrapped up my first of two presentations at VSLive New York 2008. Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL LINQ to SQL is great for getting objects in and out of a relational database but how does it fit in to an n-tier application? Demos are great but how do you really use…
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Beantown .NET User Group on 9/4/2008: Jason Dolinger, WPF Patterns
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, September 4th. For our September meeting, we have Jason Dolinger from Lab49 presenting “WPF Patterns”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 9/4. Click here to RSVP. Our location…
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Playing with .NET’s Named Pipe Streams (with .NET-to-.NET and Win32-to-.NET samples)
I get my first deadline-free and commitment weekend in weeks and what do I do? I spend 12 hours writing code. I didn’t leave my house yesterday. I’m just that cool. (And yes, it was completely worth it. I had a great time just writing code.) Anyway, I decided that I wanted to try to…
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My slides from DevTeach Toronto 2008
I spoke at DevTeach Toronto 2008 a few weeks ago. Here are the two talks I gave with links to download my slides. Enjoy. Talk #1: Customizing the Team System Web Test Framework (slides) At first glance, the Web Tests in Visual Studio Team System might not seem very powerful or interesting but the web…