Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts

Brian Keller has just published his new dev VM. This virtual machine replaces the previous Visual Studio 2013 ALM virtual machine which was based on Preview bits. This is a publicly downloadable set of content, so you may feel free to share this with your customers, partners, etc. It’s designed to be both a tool … Continue reading Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts →

TF30063: You are not authorized to access …

When working with more than one account, you frequently get an error trying to connect to a TFS server. This happens both in the on premises or int the TFSPREVIEW.COM service. The most painful process, suggests you clear all your ached credentials, but this is a real pain, and you'll have to do it every … Continue reading TF30063: You are not authorized to access … →

A day in the field: my usual tools and the new goodies

A day in the field is not complete without your set of tools. Here is a revised list of my current and future tools (just in doubt if things that make you grin can be called tools...).

DEV 11 Beta products and Ranger projects

On 29th of February, for the 1st time in our history, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers sim-shipped a dozen projects to Codeplex in conjunction with Dev11 beta. These projects deliver technical readiness content to the Microsoft field and external MVPs who leverage this content in their customer engagements. If a project includes features or tools, the source code is included in the download to support customization. See more details on our Rangers blog.

TFS Services (Azure) online ad available

It has been made available the Azure version of the Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Services), also known as TFS Services preview. You can create a free account with a live account and use it in your projects. For the time beeing it is free. I don't have an idea of the business model of this … Continue reading TFS Services (Azure) online ad available →

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out

Just FYI, the Beta 2 is out and available to all MSDN subscribers. Check it out here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797 Cheers 😉

Integrating SPDisposeCheck with your visual studio

I don't know about you, but I like to have my tools handy 🙂 With this in mind I suggest the approach described here: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/How+to+integrate+SP+Dispose+Check+into+Visual+Studio+Solutions. Simple and neet.

Project Catharsis or the story of a blank line

This post may come to you in many formats: Surprise as my posts are usually less verbose As a major pain in you bally (due to a huge laughing crisis) if you were part of the team involved in the situation As a major heads up to everyone who think that working beyond your limit is … Continue reading Project Catharsis or the story of a blank line →

New paper on using Visual Studio Team System for Sharepoint development.

A new interesting paper has been published from VSTS Rangers: Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications. You can access the paper here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc948982.aspx.

VSTS: recording a test

During a stress test project creation, I came accross a problem which was the fact that the test recorder toolbar wouldn't appear on the IE. As it happens, you have to add the site to be tested to your trusted sites connections on the browser... Cheers..