Ben Pryor
Ben Pryor has recently started blogging, I encourage you to add him to your aggregator. His first couple of posts are all ready pretty interesting (better than my first blog posts).
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Make Windows XP Look Shiney
[]()Recently I was looking at some screenshots from my good friend Clark Sell and I spent more time admiring the theme on his copy of Windows than looking at the error he was trying to show me.
Continue ReadingCruiseControl.NET Source Control Plugin 1.2.0 Released
Tonight, I finally sat down and recompiled the CruiseControl.NET plugin to work with the RC version of the Team Foundation Server API. Turns out there was only one change – the TeamFoundationServer object now has a public constructor to pass the credentials to rather than using the factory as I has previously been...
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Check in Policy to Force Comments in TFS
Jeff Atwood has posted a sample to allow you to implement what has got to be the single most requested check-in policy for Team System, forcing a user to comment their change. Based on some earlier posts by James Manning, Jeff's download also contains some good example check-in policies.
Continue ReadingTeamprise at SD West
Just to let folks know I’ll be popping over to attend SD West. I’ll be doing a technical session on Thursday morning and I’ll be at the Teamprise booth in the Microsoft Pavilion the rest of the time.
Continue ReadingVSTS Community Bloggers Start Page
[](http://feeds.feedburner.com/VstsBloggers) I have just added Richard Hundhausen’s excellent blog into the list of blogs that I slurp for the VSTS Community Bloggers Google Toolbar button. While I was there I made the blog a bit more reader friendly.
Continue ReadingDeadlock
I’ve been coding for around 25 years, since my parents bought me a VIC-20. I think it was probably a similar advert to this one by William Shatner that convinced them to buy it after seeing how much time my borther and I spent playing with our Atari 2600.
Continue ReadingTFS Source Control for VS 2003
Via Rob, Microsoft have now released a MSSCCI Provider that works in Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 6. According to the overview on the download site, “The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables users of Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .
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Teamprise Preview 6
[](http://www.teamprise.com/)Preview 6 of Teamprise is now available for registered users to download (registration is free). This release is compatible with the RC version of Team Foundation Server only - Beta 3 and Beta 3 refresh users should stick with Preview 5 or upgrade TFS now to claim your free T-shirt.
Continue ReadingVSTS Bloggers Google Toolbar
[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/blog/vsts_google_toolbar.jpg)Well, having tried new new beta of Google Toolbar I just had to try implementing my own toolbar button. Here is one that will give you the top previous posts from folks around the VSTS blogosphere.
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