February 13, 2012 / No Comment

Join IntelliTect’s Mark Michaelis and Allen Greaves as they reveal the power of the Entity Framework on May 3rd at CenterPlace Regional Event Center in Spokane Valley, Washington.

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Transitioning between Sprints/Iterations with TFS

February 6, 2012 / No Comment

When transitioning from one Sprint (or iteration) to another it is necessary to modify all “current sprint” queries and any additional custom queries that are sprint/iteration specific. This is not a one time activity per team project but rather something you have to do after every sprint.

One way to eliminate this step is by creating a “release” called “Current” and moving the specific current sprint (Sprint 1, Sprint 2, or 2012-02-06 for example) under this release. The current sprint is simply moved from its defined release into the Current release when the sprint starts. When the sprint ends, the sprint [...]

Toji – custom brewed psake goodness

November 9, 2011 / No Comment

I have use psake a few times, and I wanted to see what I extract to be more productive. With the rate at which I spin off OSS and side projects, I need something that just works out of the box and is fast to set up. Borne of this need, I created Toji, and it is available as a NuGet package.

I must have my build set up with compiling, testing, packaging, and deployment. I have some xunit, nunit, nuget, msbuild helpers in the project to get projects up quickly. The lack of a xunit [...]

Windows 8 Development Architecture and Strategy with Mark Michaelis

September 30, 2011 / No Comment

With Windows 8 Microsoft ushers in a new set of technologies designed to challenge Apple’s market share while maintaining the full productivity of the PC.  In this session we discuss what they are offering and what technologies they are introducing to successfully compete – both from a users perspective and a developers perspective.  Don’t miss this session to understand a new breed of applications from Microsoft and the development technology and architecture that makes it all possible.

Sponsored by the Spokane .Net Programming User Group and Presented by Mark Michaelis

Management Verses Leadership

September 28, 2011 / No Comment

Here are the video and slides from my talk at the Inland Northwest Chapter of the Project Management Institute.

Download: [Slides (pdf)] [Mid Def. (315 MB)] [FullHD Video (875 MB)] [Full Audio (50 MB)] [Mid Def. Audio (12 MB)– Recommended]

Remembering TFS Credentials (from a non-Domain Windows Client)

September 5, 2011 / No Comment

As a consultant, I am repeatedly connecting to customer Team Foundation Server (TFS) servers that are not on the same domain as my client workstation.  As a result, I am repeatedly prompted for credentials each time I launch Visual Studio or connect to TFS web.

Notice, there is no “Remember Credentials” check box so seemingly no way to avoid getting prompted every time you connect to TFS.  However, this is not the case.  Richard Banks details a solution the involved opening [...]

Subscribing to TFS Alerts with TFS Power Tools’ Alerts Explorer

September 5, 2011 / No Comment

Out of the box, Team Explorer includes the ability to subscribe to Project Alerts (available from the Team->Project Alerts menu in Visual Studio and from the Team Web->Settings Page):

As the Alerts dialog image shows, Project Alerts only lets you subscribe to 4 alerts: