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• Team Build With SharePoint Projects

  What is Continuous Integration? Organizations always need a repeatable and reliable method to create a regularly available public build. In my previous organizations, I used in-house tools.—I even used a continuous integration build type. I just did not... Posted Jul 05 2011, 05:51 PM by Hosam Kamel with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008, VSTS, TFS Team Build, TFS 2005, Team Build, TFS 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Team Explorer, TFS 2010

• TFS 2008 Web Access Report 100 record limitation

  By default TFS 2008 Web Access has the limit of 100 record when you open any query in report mode. Even if you tried to export the query to excel or PDF you will only get first 100 record exported. To overcome this issue, you have to reconfigure this... Posted May 05 2010, 04:57 PM by Hosam Kamel with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio 2005 Tips, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010

• Introduction to Spec Explorer (another tool from MSDN DevLabs)

  Spec Explorer 2010 is a tool that extends Visual Studio for modeling software behavior, analyzing that behavior by graphical visualization, model checking; and generating standalone test code from models. Behavior is modeled in two ways: by writing rule... Posted Nov 10 2009, 09:28 AM by Hosam Kamel with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio, Community Projects, Free Tools, Visual Studio 2008, Geek tools, MSDN DevLabs, Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio Immediate Window

  The Immediate window is used at design time to debug and evaluate expressions, execute statements, print variable values, and so forth. It allows you to enter expressions to be evaluated or executed by the development language during debugging.  ... Posted Oct 18 2009, 09:56 AM by Hosam Kamel with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio 2005 Tips, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008

• [Resolved] Could not load file or assembly 'XXXXX' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

  I have recently switched my development environment from 32-bit to 64-bit by installing Windows Server 2008 64-bit and modify it to be used as workstation as described here http://www.win2008workstation.com/ and I'm really amazed with it’s performance... Posted Oct 11 2009, 04:04 PM by Hosam Kamel with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 64-bit

• Workaround for missing "Edit WCF Configuration" menu option in Visual Studio

  Alex Thissen has posted a workaround for missing "Edit WCF Configuration" menu option in Visual Studio while working with WCF project in Visual Studio 2008 Check it out http://www.alexthissen.nl/blogs/main/archive/2008/08/28/workaround... Posted Apr 02 2009, 05:50 PM by Hosam Kamel with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Tips & Tricks, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, WCF

• Workaround for a slow closing of Web projects

  A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We found that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects... Posted Jan 21 2009, 05:12 PM by Hosam Kamel with | with no comments Filed under: Web Application Project, ASP.NET Tips & Tricks, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET Deployment, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET Tips & Tricks

• Download: Visual Studio 2008 Project Template for TFS Utilities

  If you develop small utilities for Team Foundation Server a lot you might want to save some time and use a project template (see bottom for file attachment) that already comes equipped with the correct references to the Team Foundation Object Model (... Posted Jan 19 2009, 11:41 AM by Hosam Kamel with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008, VSTS, TFS Team Build, TFS 2005, Team Build, TFS 2008

• Secure File Download Area using IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0

  For IIS 6.0: ASP.NET Forms authentication will only secure content that is processed by the aspnet_isapi.dll (mainly .aspx files). If you need to replace other static file types (such as text files, video files, etc...), you can do that by mapping them... Posted Dec 15 2008, 10:54 AM by Hosam Kamel with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET Tips & Tricks, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Deployment, Visual Studio 2008, IIS 7.0, IIS 6.0

• [Resolved] Can't reference server control in code-behind/IntelliSense

  .Question: I've got the following control on my aspx page: <asp:DropDownList ID= "favList" runat= "server" AutoPostBack= "true" > <asp:ListItem Value= "" Text= "--" /> </asp:DropDownList>... Posted Nov 28 2008, 11:42 AM by Hosam Kamel with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio 2005 Tips, ASP.NET Tips & Tricks, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008