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New web project model for VS 2005.

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Jan, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet maker web

Scott Guthrie has posted about a new web project type that will be available for VS 2005. I know quite a few people have been running into difficulties with the shipped way that web projects work in VS 2005 (especially when it comes to automating the build process outside of Visual Studio) and this new model sounds...

The Software Lifecycle Blog

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology web personal

Via [Rob] Some smart folks over at Avanade have started blogging about the Software Lifecycle (being Avanade, you'd expect this to be heavily focused on VSTS and it is). If anyone is going to be getting serious about using VSTS "out there" then you'd expect these guys to be bleeding edge.

Customising VSTS Work Item Types

Martin Woodward
Date : 06 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs dotnet web

Via [Rob] Dave McKinstry has recently posted about his Approach to Process Customization with TFS. While I have been practising my work item definitions on a scratch project inside a team system VPC before applying them to the production box, he lays out a good process to help you avoid mistakes.

Improving TF Command Line Performance

Martin Woodward
Date : 14 Dec, 2005
Categories :tfs web

Buck Hodges has done an excellent post on improving performance of the team foundation source control command line (tf.exe). More details here.

Don't do that

Martin Woodward
Date : 08 Dec, 2005
Categories :git tfs web

[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/blog/tfs_properties_full.png)The source control system within Visual Studio Team System has a very powerful security model. One of the nice things is that if a user does not have read permissions on one of the objects in a tree, then that object is totally hidden from view - the...

Opening Pandora's Box

Martin Woodward
Date : 08 Dec, 2005
Categories :technology gadgets web programming podcast

Just discovered the website - Pandora. Basically, it allows you to create a streaming music station by typing in the names of some songs or bands that you like. It will then play you music by those artists and similar ones.

Configuring NTP on Windows Server 2003

Martin Woodward
Date : 06 Dec, 2005
Categories :technology web

Recently, a colleague and I were struggling to get a Windows 2003 domain controller configured to use an external NTP time source. We were doing all the old registry hacks that you used to have to do to no affect.

HowTo: Configure SVN+SSH with Subclipse on Windows

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Nov, 2005
Categories :git technology dotnet gadgets maker web programming

Problem: Use ssh tunnelling to access a Subversion repository using SSH tunneling (i.e. with a subversion repository url of svn+ssh://myservername/myrepo) using the Subclipse subversion integration with Eclipse. I tried various things and used each of the three interfaces for configuring Subclipse (Window, Preferences.

Google Analysis

Martin Woodward
Date : 26 Nov, 2005
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet gadgets web

[](/images/blog/geomap.html)Well, despite the massive load that Google Analytics took, they have done me proud and are now happily tracking the data from 3 of the sites I look after that I'm most interested in. This blog, VSTSPlugins and VSTSEclipse.

Ready to Launch Ireland Talk

Martin Woodward
Date : 24 Nov, 2005
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web

If you had the mis-fortune of hearing me speak at the Belfast launch event for SQL 2005 / Visual Studio 2005 / Biztalk 2006 this morning then the following links may be of interest:-Rob Caron's Blog - Best place for VSTS related information Visual Studio Team System - Official Microsoft pages VSTSPlugins - Open source...

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