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• History of Visual Studio (by Rico Mariani)

  Tags: Visual Studio

  Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:29:00 PM

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  Only a genuine GEEK can enjoy reading the history of Visual Studio, but it was really fun (to me)! Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/tags/History+of+Visual+Studio/default.aspx& … more

• Authentication problems in Windows 2008 R2 and loopback IP

  Tags: Windows, Windows 2008 R2

  Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:02:00 PM

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  We are migrating part of our infrastructure to Windows Server 2008 R2, and while preparing a DEMO environment we got bitten by this problem. In R2 (and Windows 7) security is a little tigher and NTLM … more

• Problems migrating WebTest projects from VS2008 to VS2010

  Tags: 2010, beta, VSTS

  Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:07:00 AM

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  If you fall into the same problem I did (WebTests project not being converted to the new VS2010 format) I found a workaround. I just removed the offending projects the then added back to the solution … more

• Projects upgraded from VS2008 to VS2010

  Tags: .NET, 2010, beta, TFS, VSTS

  Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:32:00 AM

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  Yesterday I did my first test migrating one of our our rather complex VS2008 solutions to VS2010 (and TFS 2010). The solution and projects upgrade went generally well, I only had a few minor things … more

• TFS 2010 Upgrade options

  Tags: 2010, beta, TFS, VSTS

  Friday, October 23, 2009 5:57:00 PM

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  For those planning to upgrade from TFS 2008 (as we do) Bryan Krieger posted a nice article commenting the options and a high level overview of the process. Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/ … more

• Retina.NET support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

  Tags: .NET, C#, ORM, Retina.NET

  Friday, October 23, 2009 4:39:00 PM

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  The latest version of Retina.NETm the open source ORM published on CodePlex has now explicit support for MS SQL 2008. The new DataStore now supports the new data types (DATETIME2, TIME, DATE, … more

• White paper: understanding WCF extensibility

  Tags: WCF

  Friday, October 23, 2009 4:33:00 PM

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  I have written a white paper on WCF extensibility and I would like to share it with the community so I have attached a copy to this post in Word 2003 format.  Enjoy! Andrés G … more

• Faster builds with VSTS Team Build

  Tags: CI, TFS, VSTS

  Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:46:00 AM

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   If you have big solutions with hundreds of projects and hundred of thoudsands lines of code, you know that by default compiling in the build server takes some time. One of the things that take … more

• Continuous Integration presentation at Microsoft

  Tags: CI, VSTS

  Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:33:00 AM

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  A few days ago I presented the topic "Continuous Integration" to part of the Architect community in Argentina. The presentation was about how to achieve higher quality software by using … more