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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 – Available today! by joelvarty

     Senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar announced the availability of VS 2010 and .Net 4.  He writes the following: “This represents the biggest tools release from Microsoft in many years...

CNET News: Visual Studio 2010 to launch in March by joelvarty

According to this article from CNET News from October 19th, Visual Studio 2010 will launch in March, 2010.  This sort of follows the current timeline, where the Beta 2 has just been released, and we can probably expect another beta and/or a Release...

TFS Power Tools – Get Changeset, Rollback Changeset by joelvarty

Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/11/16/493401.aspx It’s command line only at this point, but I like it. Build this into Visual Studio, somebody!   More later - joel
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TFS: Who edited this text? – Annotations in source control… by joelvarty

If you were ever looking at some code and wondered who actually changed the line of text you were currently looking at, there is a way to do just that! It is called Annotations, and it is a visual tracking of the history of that file’s history in source...
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Minify your Javascripts! by joelvarty

This is a process that is becoming more and more important as we offload a ton of our page processing to .js files as opposed to HTML files processed by the server.  This is because we are doing more client templating and logical processing on the...
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Remember to check-in when you re-format your machine!!! by joelvarty

Besides losing any code you may have written that you’ll never get back, those pending changes or locks will be stored on the server until someone does an “undo” or a workspace delete.   Here is the undo command: tf undo /workspace:TheirWorkspace;DOMAIN...
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TFS Quick Tip: Use HTML in the History field for Work Items by joelvarty

I have just been editing the project templates to enable HTML in the description field.  As it turns out, the description field is locked down as plain text. This history field is HTML though, and if you want to add formatting to it, just enable...
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VS Docs for jQuery 1.3.1 by joelvarty

I am using jQuery for everything these days - it really is an awesome add-on to any web application, and what even better is that you can get intellisense on it for the latest version.   Makes it easy to get stuff like this showing up when you are...

VS 2010 and deployments through IIS - MSDeploy here we come by joelvarty

I saw this posting on the webdevtools blog and was intrigued by its promise. Deploying apps across multiple environments really sucks with IIS, especially when you have specialized setting for different servers in a web farm, or you have multiple people...

For WCF Services hosted in non IIS apps - add permissions for a user to change the IIS namespace reservations by joelvarty

If you are hosting a WCF services in a console app, windows service or any other non-IIS application, you need to listen on a particular url address.  A normal user running an app or service doesn't have permission to do this unless that user is...
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