- A significant blocker for some of my customers moving to Visual Studio 2013 (and 2012 previously) has been the removal of Visual Studio Setup Projects; my experience has been confirmed by UserVoice. Well Microsoft have addressed this pain point by releasing a Visual Studio Extension to re-add this Visual Studio 2010 …
Read More My Nokia 820 phone is now updated to 8.1 with the developer preview.
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The actual upgrade was straight forward, the only issue …
Read MoreThe 2013 editions of existing TFS books are now available
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Read More- I have had a Surface 2 for about six months. It is great for watching videos on the train, or a bit of browsing, but don’t like it for note taking in meetings. This is a shame, as this is what I got it for; a light device with good battery life to take to meetings. What I needed was something I could hand write on in …
Read More - With Visual Studio 2012 there were changes in the way Web Publishing worked; the key fact being that the configuration was moved from the .csproj to a .pubxml in the properties folder. This allows them to be more easily managed under source control by a team. This does have some knock on effects though, especially when …
Read More Updated 20 Oct 2014 – With notes on using an Action for cross domain authentication
In my previous post I described how to get a network isolated environment up and running with Release Management, it is all to do with shadow accounts. Well getting it running is one thing, having a useful release process is another. …
Read MoreWhen working with web applications we tend to use MSDeploy for distribution. Our TFS build box, as well as producing a _PublishedWebsite copy of the site, produce the ZIP packaged version we use to deploy to test and production servers via PowerShell or IIS Manager
To create this package we add the MSBuild Arguments …
Read MoreTo make sure all our Word documents are consistent we use a Word template that include VSTO action pane.
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This allow us to …
Read MoreTFS 2013.2 got RTM’d last night and is available on MSDN; interestingly Visual Studio 2013.2 is still only an RC, we have to wait for that to RTM.
As we had a good proportion of our team at Build 2014 I took the chance to do the upgrade today. It went smoothly, no surprises, though the installation phase (the middle …
Read MoreLooking forward to speaking at Techorama in May, great range of speakers and subjects.
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Hope to see you …
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