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Dubbelbock for Visual Studio 2008 Released for free
Well, Visual Studio 2008 was released in February and I finally got around to getting Dubbelbock updated for VS2008. The funny thing is that most of the delay had to do with modifying the licensing code since I’ve decided to release it for free. In addition to being able to access Team Foundation Server source…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 7/10/2008 with Chris Bowen on XNA
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting on Thursday, July 10th. For our July meeting, we have Chris Bowen from Microsoft presenting “Introduction to Game Development with XNA”. 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 7/10. Click here to RSVP.…
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Some Win32 (unmanaged) C++ noob tips
This weekend I decided to do a little unmanaged C++. My biggest take-away was that I learned that unmanaged (aka Win32) C++ is really, really hard and obtuse. As a C# guy (who used to be a VB6 programmer), I don’t think that I appreciated how easy C# and VB6 are to work with. Here…
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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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Speaking at Beantown .NET User Group on TFS2008 6/12/2008
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, June 12th. For our June meeting, I’ll be presenting “Team Foundation Server 2008” as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event program (http://tinyurl.com/3uz2c3). As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please…
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Sample Custom Validation and Extraction Rules for Web Tests in Visual Studio Team System 2008
If you haven’t seen Web Tests in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and Tester Edition (aka. Visual Studio Team System), you really should do yourself a favor and take a look. They allow you to write and record unit tests that will exercise and validate a running web application or web site. The basic idea…
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My slides from VSLive Orlando 2008
I just finished up doing VSLive Orlando 2008 this week. To all of you who were in my sessions, thanks for coming. For those of you who missed the conference, you should go to the next VSLive. Here are my slides from this year’s talks: Win & Web App Installers with WiX De-mystifying TFS Reporting…
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"Session state is not available in this context" exception accessing ASP.NET Session in PreRequestHandlerExecute event
I’m doing my final preparations today for speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2008 on Wednesday and Thursday. I went to check one of my demos and code that used to work started throwing an exception. System.Web.HttpException was unhandled by user code Message=”Session state is not available in this context.” Source=”System.Web” ErrorCode=-2147467259 …
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Call to IIS-Hosted WCF Service Hangs IIS (well, not exactly)
I ran into this problem a couple of days ago. I’m working on an n-tier application that uses WCF services hosted in IIS under Vista & Windows 2008. We’ve got unit tests to test each tier and they were mostly passing. We unit test our service code both directly by reference (unhosted) and then unit…
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Fix: Team Foundation Server Reports broken after upgrade from TFS 2008 Beta 2 to TFS 2008 RTM
I did an upgrade today from TFS beta2 to RTM. Everything worked fine except for the reports. All the reports gave the following error: “Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)” After a few minutes, the error message has changed over to: “Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) The referenced…