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June 2007 Entries

The Delivery


Well, this being my hundredth post I thought I should mention something special... Something that will change my world forever... Something that will keep me up at night... My daughter, Evangelina Jade Hinshelwood was born yesterday (24th June 2007) at the Southern General Hospital with a weight of 9 pounds. Her due date was the 23rd June 2007.

posted @ Monday, June 25, 2007 8:26 AM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ Personal ]


Windows Mobile 6 Black Shadow (4.0)


I know that you are not supposed to do it, but I updated my phone to Windows Mobile 6 Black, specifically Black 4 (Shadow). This is a fantastic ROM and, if you are not that technical, much better than trying to cook your own! It is described as a Hybrid OEM of HTC Hermes and Touch designed specifically for the Hermes. This is good as the current HTC Touch phone does not have 3G or a keyboard, it looks fantastic though. I knew the iPhone would be good for something, pushing HTC to advance the int

posted @ Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:31 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ Windows Mobile ]


Solution to sub sites in Sharepoint 3.0 with Team Foundation Server


I will try not to reiterate all that has gone before, but I was trying to get the Project Creation Wizard for Team Foundation server to create project portals as sub sites to an existing Sharepoint 3.0 site, and not as top level sites under a "managed path". This has proved a bumpy ride and I would like to share with you my solution. First I would like to air some of my assumptions and results....

posted @ Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:45 PM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint ]


Creating a managed service factory


I had a plan. I wanted to create a way of accessing services in multiple locations from any location. Each location could have one or more services which may be duplications or different. That is a really abstract way of thing about it, but I eventually came up with a solution. After using Reflector to view the Team Foundation Server source code, which gave ma many pointers for which I would like to thank the TFS Team At Microsoft, I came up with the following solution...

posted @ Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:28 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Microsoft .NET Framework Service orientation RDdotNET Software Industrial Revolution Visual Studio Team System Software Factories ]


Creating your own Event Handler


Creating an event handler with the Team Foundation Server Event Handlers is very easy. You will need to inherit from the AEventHandler class which is part of RDdotNet.TeamFoundation.dll located in the install directory (I will make an SDK later).

posted @ Monday, June 18, 2007 4:12 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ RDdotNET TFS Event Handler ]


TFS Event Handler prototype Configuration Demystified


There are a number of config options for the TFS Event Handler Prototype. I will describe all of them in depth here. If you have installed the service and set the account that is used to run the service you should get no errors when starting. No guarantees though :)

posted @ Monday, June 18, 2007 2:05 PM | Feedback (1) | Filed Under [ RDdotNET TFS Event Handler ]


TFS Event Handler: Prototype Released


As promised I have released the application and code for my prototype TFS Event Handler. I am currently working on the documentation, but I though I would give the bravest of you advanced notice of the release. You should be able to figure out how to configure it and extend it without much help (who reads documentation anyway), but for those of you who need that extra hand I will hopefully, time permitting, be releasing some sort of rudimentary documentation today!

posted @ Monday, June 18, 2007 11:44 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ RDdotNET TFS Event Handler ]


TFS Event Handler: CTP 1 Delayed


Due to a number of reasons: -My wife is due to give birth this week some time -I only have access to TFS at work, and my development time has been cut down. -I'm lazy... The first CTP of the Team Foundation Server Event Handler has been delayed. I have, however made a number of enhancements of the surrounding framework that will allow the smother function of this and other releases.

posted @ Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:29 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ RDdotNET TFS Event Handler ]


Programmer personality type


Get yours here. My programmer personality type is: DLTB You're a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money. You like coding at a Low level. You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performanc

posted @ Saturday, June 16, 2007 6:08 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Personal ]


Sharepoint 3.0 TFS Sub-Site creation investigation result


Well my did not go too well! After consulting with blogs, forums and Microsoft the end result is that it will not work in an automated way. You can't create a sub site to and existing site with Sharepoint without customizing the Sharepoint site creation process, which I am not going to get into at the moment. Maybe later. The best I can hope for at this time is to disable the creation of the Sharepoint site during the project creation process and to create the site manually after the project has been created. Although this adds a manual step to the process this is not a problem for us as there are only 2 users allowed to create new projects in our environment.

Extending the project creation wizard may not be that hard! I have only looked at the , but it looks doable.  Just don't have the time at the moment as I am trying to concentrate on the .

I will just have to add it to my ...

posted @ Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:39 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Sharepoint ]


NetIDme


I have just been made aware of a new ('ish) service. It allows you to verify the identity of those users you interact with online. This is a very usefully service for any online site or community where users are under 18, but is there any value for those of us that are not?

posted @ Friday, June 15, 2007 4:23 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Service orientation Software Industrial Revolution ]


HTC Touch


If, like me you are a fan of Pocked PC mobile phones you will have something like the Orange SPV 3100.

posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:45 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Windows Mobile Microsoft Windows ]


TFS Process Templates


I have been working with Team Foundation Server for around a year now and I am still finding features and I am still amazed at the extensibility of the system. The core of this extensibility is the aggressively configurable process templates. You can see a list of commercial templates on the Microsoft site, not all of them cost money though.

posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:25 PM | Feedback (1) | Filed Under [ Visual Studio Team System ]


Microsoft Surface: Wow


I have just looked at the Surface first look site and I am truly amazed! I want one, really badly...

posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:05 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Microsoft Windows ]


SharePoint 3.0 TFS Sub-Site creation error.


As you will know from my previous post I have been trying to get TFS to create sub sites in SharePoint 3.0. I now have the hotfix specified by Brian Keller for my Team Explorer client that allows me to communicate with WSS3.0, but I am still having a problem with my sub site attempts! Hey Brian, you said "try it and see", so I did, but it only half works ;)

posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:14 PM | Feedback (1) | Filed Under [ Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint ]


My Wish List of Team Foundation Server Tools


Here is my list of tools that don't yet exist, but that would improve the TFS experiance.

posted @ Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:38 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ RDdotNET Visual Studio Team System ]