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TFS 2008 Beta 2 VPC Expiration Issue (again)

Martin Woodward
Date : 29 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker web programming

So, to stop my Beta 2 VPC image from expiring this week, I thought I'd try out an "upgrade" of one of the VSTS + TFS Beta 2 VPC images to a full copy of Windows Server Enterprise Edition with a retail key (as provided by my MSDN account, that Microsoft kindly supply me as a perk of being a Team System MVP).

Update on Beta 2 VPC Premature Expiration

Martin Woodward
Date : 29 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs technology web programming podcast

Jeff Beehler has posted an update on the Beta 2 expiration issue. He currently see's three possible alternatives: Do nothing: if you don't need to use your VPC for more than an hour or so at at time (for instance for demos), then you can probably tolerate the behavior of the timed out OS.

Speaking at Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

[](http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched-developers)I'm joining my good friend Brian Randell to do a session on Team Build 2008 at TechEd Developers in Barcelona on November 8th. If you are at TechEd then please do come along - it is shaping up to be a fun talk.

TFS Top Tip #14: The only 2 things you need to know when customizing Team Build

Martin Woodward
Date : 26 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet maker web programming

If you are customizing a team build, then there are only two things you need to know to get you started. The rest you can (mostly) figure out from there. Your build is defined in a file called TFSBuild.proj for your particular Team Build Type. You probably figured that bit out already.

VSTS 2008 Beta 2 VPC suffers from Premature Expiration

Martin Woodward
Date : 25 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs web

If you are/were planning on using that Beta 2 VPC of Team System or TFS that you downloaded after November 1st, then think again. Jeff Beehler has posted to warn folks that the group have recently discovered that the VPC will expire early due to the timeout in the operating system. See Jeff's post for more details.

Virtual Machine Additions for Linux

Martin Woodward
Date : 23 Oct, 2007
Categories :technology maker web personal

Yesterday, Version 2.0 of the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux were released on the Microsoft Download Center. Officially, this provides addition support for Virtual Server 2005 SP1, however I have read reports from the beta program suggesting they may also work under Virtual PC (albeit unsupported).

Getting Ubuntu 7.10 working in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Martin Woodward
Date : 19 Oct, 2007
Categories :technology teamprise web programming personal

The new "Gutsy Gibbon" version of Ubuntu was officially released this week. While some of the developers at Teamprise use Ubuntu as their primary OS, I personally prefer Windows Vista, however I keep an Ubuntu image around so that I can quickly test any new UI code I write in an alternate OS.

ARCast.TV - Team Foundation Server Down Under and Cross-Platform

Martin Woodward
Date : 18 Oct, 2007
Categories :tfs technology teamprise web podcast personal

[](http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=348628) Ron Jacobs has posted up an ARCast video from TechEd 2007 in Australia. About 3 minutes in he does a nice interview with an organization using Team Foundation Server in a cross-platform environment.

"Hit By a Bus" Use Cases

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Oct, 2007
Categories :git tfs technology web programming personal

One of the great things about version control is that it covers a number of "Hit by a Bus" scenarios. I say this with an air of joviality, but each actual use case is never a nice one. I once worked with a guy, who supposedly once worked at a place where the "Hit By a Bus" scenario was a real one.

ASP.NET MVC Framework

Martin Woodward
Date : 07 Oct, 2007
Categories :technology dotnet maker web programming

Some interesting news seems to be coming out of the Alt.NET Conference in Austin. I'd got a few IM's from folks at the conference talking about Scott Guthrie's talk. According to Jeff Palermo's blog, Scott Guthrie showed off a new ASP.NET MVC Framework. This looks very interesting and might well tempt me back into ASP.

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