Archive for November, 2007
How do I pass Exam 70-510 (Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server)?
How do you prep for Exam 70-510? The first place to start is the Preparation Guide for Exam 70-510 on the MS Learning site. That gives you a quick overview of the topics. However, the guide isn’t too specific. Here are a few key
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FUQs (Frequently Unanswered Questions)
One of the categories for this blog is FUQ. It stands for Frequently Unanswered Questions. Basically, there are plenty of places on the web for you to get data about questions everyone runs into during their Team System implementation. One of the best sources is the
How can I listen to TFS Events (without building everything from scratch)?
I’ll be the first to admit, creating a TFS listener from scratch is a pain. The work isn’t creative work, and you spend the majority of time creating plumbing. So, what can you do. There are two approaches I see right now (leave a comment if I’ve missed your favorite). 1. Use Howard
How many Team Build types should I have for one solution?
How many Team Build scripts should you create? Basically, you should create one build script for each and every way you’d like to report on your data. For instance, you should have a build script for your Continuous Integration (CI) build, one for your daily build, one for a weekly build, and
Microsoft Search Server 2008
Microsoft is releasing MS Search Server 2008, a tool for building enterprise search services. I don’t have any experience yet with these particular tools, but have been impressed with the strides Microsoft has made in the search capabilities of MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. Of particular interest is
Virtualizing our infrastructure
I have a quick question for folks out there who have some experience with Virtualization. We’re planning on virtualizing the majority of our hardware, and so are looking for a good virtualization server. We plan on moving our TFS to a fully virtualized environment, as well as SharePoint, Exchange,
How can I register for TFS Events without using Bissubscribe.exe?
Let’s face it. BisSubscribe is a mess. It’s a fine command line tool, but how on earth do you know what the proper values are for creating a Filter statement. You don’t want ALL the build events, after all. Only those for Project X that have Failed. To express those filter items
TDD with Visual Studio – to do or not to do
Check out a new article that I wrote for Redmond Developer News in the latest issue. Please drop me any feedback here! AKPC_IDS += "23,";