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My Boot-to-VHD experiment: found some tips, like it, but still haven’t found VM nirvana
I’ve recently been running some early releases developer tools which came with the “install on VM’s if you don’t want your computer to catch fire” warning. That seemed like a good time to back off on my “VM’s are for sissies” stance and get my VHD on. After verifying that there wasn’t already a suitable VHD available for download, I decided to follow Scott Hanselman’s directions to set up a Boot To VHD instance.
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Did you know about protocol-relative hyperlinks?
If you use IE8, you’ve probably puzzled over this dialog dozens of times:
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Adding users to a TFS project when you’re not on the domain
Visual Studio Team System was obviously designed for user groups who are all members of a Windows Active Directory domain, all working in the same local network. I’m able to work remotely (without VPN, even) as long as I’m just checking files in and out, but the Visual Studio / TFS UI won’t let me grant users permission to contribute to my projects. I messed around with TFS Power Tools, but that didn’t work either.
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The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyone’s Ignoring)
Let’s take an honest look at what passes for developer/designer workflow these days: