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I started my morning in Maor David's lecture on the DB dude. The lecture was a 400 level lecture (for those who complained there weren't enough of those) continuing his talk at the Developer academy (you can download it here ). Maor demonstrated use of the various features of the DB dude (coding in real-time), and called Lior (DBA) from NUconomy to show how he used the application to make his job easier. Now I'm at Tamir 's and Alex 's lecture on game development, showing a 2D...
We all know about the "cool new kids in town", meaning new technologies all developers want to use. Offer a developer two positions: Programming with C# 1.1 Programming with WPF and C# 3.5 What do you think most developers will choose? However, there is the question of an existing project, written in an "uncool" technology. In my experience developers tend to push towards using newer technologies, but how do you convince the people in charge? Here are my thoughts on the subject...
I have been asked several times for my experience regarding installation of Team System inside an organization using (up to this point) an older version control system, so here are few tips: Team system is a complex software to install, maintain and upgrade. Study the various pitfalls you may encounter and plan your installation strategy very carefully. You can find an updated installation guide and administator's guide in Microsoft's web site, and it's probably newer than the guides...
You can download useful TFS posters here. And here you can find the book: "patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server". Read More...
Martin Woodward wrote a post containing a list of the 30 most useful (to him) properties for the build file. The nice part is that in the table he also includes examples for each property. Read More...
The idea with the AssemblyInfo task is to: import Microsoft.VersionNumber.targetspopulate the AssemblyInfoFiles item group with the list of AssemblyInfo.* files to be updatedset whatever properties you want to modify - AssemblyMajorVersion, AssemblyMinorVersion...
One of the major advantages of the "Shelf" feature in Team System is the ability to backup all your current code the the central server for backup, even before checking in complete changes. To do this programmatically you first need to get the name of...
For Hebrew speakers only, Guy Burstein recorded several short (7-15 minutes) screencasts showing some of the application blocks inside EntLib 3: Logging application blockException handling ABValidation ABPolicy injection ABFor English speakers, I found...