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• Project Natal available soon

  Posted: 29 Jun 2009 at 21:29 by Martin Hinshelwood

  I may be a little late to the game, but this rocks! The current rumours are that this will be available before Christmas and will cost in the region of £121! I for one will be pre-ordering one as soon as I can :) Technorati Tags: xbox,xbox 360,xbox360,natal

• Stuck with Vista?

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 21:51 by Martin Hinshelwood

  If, like me, you are stuck with the old and decrepit version of Windows that is Vista SP1 at work then you may be interested in Service Pack 2 which became available on the MS Download site today. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone (KB948465) Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone for x64-based systems (KB948465) I am not saying that I would rather have XP, but even with my work de

• Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 21:05 by Martin Hinshelwood

  Easy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different Team Server. This functionality was added with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, so if you don’t have SP1 installed yet you had better get it: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 You need to use the following in the connection box “] Although this looks complicated, it makes some sense at least, but is nowhere as nice as using the 2010 connection b

• Upgrading to TFS 2010 Beta 1 and SQL Collation

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 20:04 by Martin Hinshelwood

  I have just finished installing TFS 2010 beta 1 and doing an upgrade of out TFS 2008 data. This did not go well… Due to a collation mismatch between my original SQL Server 2005 and my new SQL Server 2008 I received an error when upgrading… [Error  @13:57:23.665] TF255184: An error occurred during operation.  Message=Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS" in the equal to operation.

• Stuck with Vista?

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 15:51 by Martin Hinshelwood

  If, like me, you are stuck with the old and decrepit version of Windows that is Vista SP1 at work then you may be interested in Service Pack 2 which became available on the MS Download site today. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone (KB948465) Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone for x64-based systems (KB948465) I am not saying that I would rather have XP, but even with my work de

• Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 15:05 by Martin Hinshelwood

  Easy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different Team Server. This functionality was added with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, so if you don’t have SP1 installed yet you had better get it: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 You need to use the following in the connection box “] Although this looks complicated, it makes some sense at least, but is nowhere as nice as using the 2010 connection b

• Upgrading to TFS 2010 Beta 1 and SQL Collation

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 14:04 by Martin Hinshelwood

  I have just finished installing TFS 2010 beta 1 and doing an upgrade of out TFS 2008 data. This did not go well… Due to a collation mismatch between my original SQL Server 2005 and my new SQL Server 2008 I received an error when upgrading… [Error  @13:57:23.665] TF255184: An error occurred during operation.  Message=Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS" in the equal to operation.

• You May Be a Tech Whiz, but Are You Certifiable?

  Posted: 21 May 2009 at 21:31 by Martin Hinshelwood

  A little fun game from Microsoft to test your knowledge. Going to see if I get on the leader board, but I do not hold out much any hope… Check it out: You May Be a Tech Whiz, but Are You Certifiable Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Fun,Game

• Microsoft MyPhone service available to the public

  Posted: 21 May 2009 at 21:12 by Martin Hinshelwood

  Microsoft recently opened up there beta of the MyPhone service to the general public. The service syncs your Mobile phone with the web and allows access to your Contacts Calendar tasks, pictures and more. I have just left it running, but you can add stuff to your phone through this interface as well. I see the bonus of this as a backup, which I kinda have with Plaxo.

• You May Be a Tech Whiz, but Are You Certifiable?

  Posted: 21 May 2009 at 15:31 by Martin Hinshelwood

  A little fun game from Microsoft to test your knowledge. Going to see if I get on the leader board, but I do not hold out much any hope… Check it out: You May Be a Tech Whiz, but Are You Certifiable Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Fun,Game

• Microsoft MyPhone service available to the public

  Posted: 21 May 2009 at 15:12 by Martin Hinshelwood

  Microsoft recently opened up there beta of the MyPhone service to the general public. The service syncs your Mobile phone with the web and allows access to your Contacts Calendar tasks, pictures and more. I have just left it running, but you can add stuff to your phone through this interface as well. I see the bonus of this as a backup, which I kinda have with Plaxo.

• Solution to connecting to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISA

  Posted: 20 May 2009 at 15:18 by Martin Hinshelwood

  This problem it seams is to do with the way Visual Studio 2010 connects to your TFS server over HTTPS. The default value for “BypassProxyOnLocal” in Visual Studio 2008 was “False”, but it has been changed to “True” for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. It should be noted that this is currently a Beta 1 workaround and this behaviour may be updated for Beta 2 and RTM.

• Solution to connecting to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISA

  Posted: 20 May 2009 at 09:18 by Martin Hinshelwood

  This problem it seams is to do with the way Visual Studio 2010 connects to your TFS server over HTTPS. The default value for “BypassProxyOnLocal” in Visual Studio 2008 was “False”, but it has been changed to “True” for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. It should be noted that this is currently a Beta 1 workaround and this behaviour may be updated for Beta 2 and RTM.

• Unable to connect to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISA

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 18:00 by Martin Hinshelwood

  I have a number of CodePlex projects that I connect to from work and I have had a problem since 2008 that it does not always send my authentication to the proxy server (ISA). What this manifests as is that I get a popup telling me that “Proxy authentication is required”. The workaround was to connect in offline and then click the connect button and everything invariable works with no additional problems. With Visual Studio 2010 the mater is slightly different.

• Why is the VS2010 iso so small?

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 16:14 by Martin Hinshelwood

  The reason is simple, it has no MSDN documentation in it. I for one never install the MSDN documentation and just use the online version and have always found it a pain to have it inside the same installation, but may people find it useful. And, why is there no Offline MSDN documentation? The answer is simple, it is not ready yet… Technorati Tags: VSTS,Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1,Visual Studio 2010,MSDN

• Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 16:10 by Martin Hinshelwood

  You may think, why is he uninstalling VS2010? Well, apart from proving that it works…And that it plays well with VS2008 I need to remove the pre-beta beta that I have installed. This is in fact the second time I have uninstalled VS2010 on this computer, and I had no problems last time, but the difference is that I will be installing a slightly different build :) of Beta 1. I am hoping that I do not have any problems, but my scenario is largely unsupported.

• Unable to connect to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISA

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 12:00 by Martin Hinshelwood

  I have a number of CodePlex projects that I connect to from work and I have had a problem since 2008 that it does not always send my authentication to the proxy server (ISA). What this manifests as is that I get a popup telling me that “Proxy authentication is required”. The workaround was to connect in offline and then click the connect button and everything invariable works with no additional problems. With Visual Studio 2010 the mater is slightly different.

• Why is the VS2010 iso so small?

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 10:14 by Martin Hinshelwood

  The reason is simple, it has no MSDN documentation in it. I for one never install the MSDN documentation and just use the online version and have always found it a pain to have it inside the same installation, but may people find it useful. And, why is there no Offline MSDN documentation? The answer is simple, it is not ready yet… Technorati Tags: VSTS,Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1,Visual Studio 2010,MSDN

• Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 10:10 by Martin Hinshelwood

  You may think, why is he uninstalling VS2010? Well, apart from proving that it works…And that it plays well with VS2008 I need to remove the pre-beta beta that I have installed. This is in fact the second time I have uninstalled VS2010 on this computer, and I had no problems last time, but the difference is that I will be installing a slightly different build :) of Beta 1. I am hoping that I do not have any problems, but my scenario is largely unsupported.

• Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML

  Posted: 18 May 2009 at 21:49 by Martin Hinshelwood

  Just in case you have been living in a shed at the bottom of the garden, Visual Studio 2010 is to support UML. As you can see from my diagram, my UML skills are a little, erm, crude. But I think you will get the picture and if you want to do better then just download Visual Studio 2010 on Wednesday if you are not an MSDN subscribe, and if you are… well you can get it today :) As I have not used UML since university so I do not know if this feature will meet the needs of those that use UML exte