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Content Management Systems

Drew — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:58:14 +0000

I’ve been tasked with identifying CMS candidates for our main website and our project sites. The project is ongoing, but here are the slides from a presentation today.

Content Management Systems 2010

License costs of Team Foundation Server 2010

Drew — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:26:40 +0000

This is the best explanation yet I’ve seen of the TFS 2010 pricing structure…

See Ewald Hofman | License costs of Team Foundation Server 2010.

Favorite Visual Studio Add-Ins

Drew — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:46:35 +0000

Visual Studio is a fantastic tool that can be made even better with judicious selection of Add-Ins. Here are the ones you’ll find currently installed in all my dev environments…

ReSharper (Absolute must!)
AgentSmith (ReSharper plugin. Finally, spell-checked comments!)
GhostDoc (Handy and free.)
VisualSVN (Integration of TortoiseSVN most used features.)
SlickEdit Gadgets (Current line indicator, no more searching for the cursor.)

Office 2010 and Shareporint 2007: “Could not open”

Drew — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:17:49 +0000

UPDATE: Don’t do this! It breaks stuff (like the Tungle Outlook Connector) and may have negative security implications. A second workaround I found was disabling automatic proxy detection.

Found a fix for the annoying issue with Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2007 that prevented me from opening files.

Office 2010 and Shareporint 2007: The Issue – Missing “path to file” « Achugh’s Blog.

Thanks Achugh!

Best Anti-virus For Software Developers?

Drew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:57:50 +0000

As anyone who’s looked into the performance impact of anti-virus software knows, protection from internet STD’s requires the use of parasitic utilities that significantly hinder performance and productivity, yet going without isn’t an option under most IT policies. Thus a question is born, what is the best anti-virus software for developers?

Due to the difficulty in benchmarking the real-world performance impact of AV little empirical data is available beyond “that one felt slow but this one felt faster.” Following is the best resources I’ve found on the topic, to be updated as I uncover more.

Visual Studio Team Explorer (TFS) with Cross Platform Support!

Drew — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:48:43 +0000

Sweet! Looks like TFS is becoming the multi-platform tool that shops such as where I work need. Now to convince the PHP guys that they need to add a big chunk of Microsoft tech to their development process…

The Teamprise products have been very popular with TFS customers who were developing applications across Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. Often customers want to standardize on a single enterprise-wide solution for Application Lifecycle Management because of the cost savings and increased transparency this provides. The Teamprise technology is key in enabling cross platform TFS access.

via Somasegar’s WebLog : Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support.

CloneVDI Tool – VirtualBox Virtual Disk Cloning

Drew — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:45:25 +0000

A very generous soul has coded up a utility for cloning VirtualBox VDI’s, among other useful features.

CloneVDI tool – Discussion & Support View topic • virtualbox.org.

Thanks!

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) Available

Drew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:32:35 +0000

Look what I just found…

Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately from this location. The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.

via Jason Zander’s WebLog : Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC).

The RC’s include a Go Live license which means they can be used in production. On a closely related note, ReSharper has a nightly build available that supports the new RC’s.

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+5.0+Nightly+Builds

Time to make good use of Comcast’s overpriced bandwidth and start the 2.3GB VS2010 Ultimate download!

Using Enums in List Controls – Rick Strahl’s Web Log

Drew — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:14 +0000

Wanna bind an enum to a combo box?

Quite frequently in Web and Windows apps, I’ve found it necessary to display data values contained in an Enum type typically inside of a list or combobox type control.

via Using Enums in List Controls – Rick Strahl’s Web Log.

Visual Studio Might Become a Real Software Engineering Tool Yet

Drew — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:37:31 +0000

I’m a huge fan and strong proponent of round tripping between code and UML models, reverse engineering the code to update your models and generating code for new model items. Sparx Enterprise Architect is the best way I’ve found to do this so far, but there’s some trade-offs to using the product. Fortunately, Microsoft is finally pulling it’s head out of the “real developers don’t model, and if they did they’d be happy to self-inflict the steaming pile that is Visio” hole it’s inhabited for the last several years and might have a decent tool for me to use. It’s about friggin time! I’m REALLY looking forwarding to giving this a try. Now to go convince work to spring for the Ultimate version of VS2010…

We couldn’t get to reverse engineering RE for the UML class diagram in Dev10. It was just too big. We are working on the solution however. We’ll release it as a high quality power tool in around Dev10 RTM.We did get RE into a ‘.Net sequence diagram’ so you can RE straight from code. It’s very cool.

via Is it possible to reverse engineer C# code into an UML Class Diagram?.