As a professional programmer, the languages I code in during the day are very much dependant on the particular project I am working on. Also as a programmer I have a very low threshold for repetitive or complex tasks - basically if I have to do something more than twice then I'll probably write a quick program to do...
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[](http://www.infragistics.com/Default.aspx)Infragistics is the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Tablet PC and Java (JSF) environments. I think they can count most of the Fortune 2000 as customers of theirs.
Continue Reading I am currently playing with SP1 of VSTS 2008 and TFS 2008 in a Windows Server 2008 VMWare instance I have. Whenever I created this particular instance I kept the disk space at 16Gb which is normally plenty for these play instances but after installing the service pack of VSTS my disk space was getting low.
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Sigh. Apple are really starting to get on my nerves. Not only is iTunes on Windows consistently very buggy, slow and foreign looking in the Windows OS - they are now trying to trick Windows users into installing Safari. On this particular machine I have never installed Safari, and I never want to.
Continue Reading [](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/TFSBuildAPIbyExample1Queueabuild_C1CE/BuildAPI_2.gif) As we all know by now - the build system in TFS2008 was substantially improved. Along with the many improvements came an official API for talking to the build system.
Continue Reading I've just posted the fourth episode of Radio TFS. In this episode Paul and Mickey talk about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition while I ask dumb questions and go off on tangents. Despite this, it is actually one of our better episodes to date.
Continue Reading Thanks to everyone who attended my session this afternoon at IMTC 2008 in Dublin. As promised, here is a copy of the slide deck. Automating Builds with Team Foundation Server 2008 (pdf - 1.
Continue Reading Jeffrey Fredrick just announced that CruiseControl 2.7.2 is now available for download: http://tinyurl.com/2zm9mz. There are lots of bug fixes, lots of changes to the Dashboard and some new plug-ins, but the bit that is of most interest to me was (from the release notes) TeamFoundationServer source control Fix...
Continue Reading UPDATE: Just heard from Brian Randell that the VPC is now ready to download. Updated links are below. Anthony Borton just pointed out to me that the new version of the Team System evaluation VPC is available.
Continue Reading The Team System Chat's are a great way for you to talk direct to very influential members of the product group - the people that actually write the code behind team system.
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