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August 06 Congrats to Jeff Blankenburg - Heartland Developer EvangelistDrew Robbins, fresh off his announcement that he's on his way to a new role in Redmond, has just announced his replacement. Congratulations to Jeff Blankenburg, the new Microsoft Heartland Developer Evangelist. Jeff and I go way back as classmates at BGSU, touring the country with the BGSU Men's Chorus. I'm sure Jeff will rock the house in his new role! Quote Heartland Developer Evangelist: Jeff Blankenburg May 09 VS DB Pro Service Release CTPMicrosoft has released a CTP of the the first service release for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. This was perfect timing, as we've been evaluating this for use on a project. One of the issues we ran into was validating dependencies on other databases. This service release adds a "Database References" feature which allows you to reference another Database Project or a metadata file. Now if I can figure out how we can get past the fact that the legacy databases we need to work on have dependencies on eachother which results in a circular reference when trying to add them to VS. I don't think refactoring the database design is in scope for this project...
Anyway, check it out! If you haven't used this part of Team System, you're missing out! It's pretty fantastic the way it is, but a few more iterations of this, and I think Microsoft will finally have the perfect solution for change management within databases.
April 30 Changing TFS User CredentialsOnce you add a Team Foundation Server to your server list in Team Explorer, you'll be prompted for user credentials. There may come a time when you need to change this – perhaps you're verifying a VPC image that another user will eventually use, or perhaps you are (gasp!) using someone else's login while you wait for yours to be created. Either way, the solution is painfully simple, and has nothing to do with VSTS. Since web services are used to communicate between the client and server, user credentials are cached just like any other web site credentials. These can be maintained via the User Accounts control panel by choosing the "Manage my network passwords" under Related Tasks. This brings up the Stored User Names and Passwords dialog – just remove the TFS machine from the list, and you will be prompted for new credentials the next time you try to connect. April 29 New CertIt's been a few months sime my last post, but I've been busy (okay, that excuse is getting tired). During my last stint riding the pine between consulting engagements, I was able to upgrade my MCSD certification to the new MCPD-EA (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - Enterprise Applications) cert. I also took the Team Foundation Server beta exam 71-510. The beta exams take up to 2 months to grade, so I've been waiting awhile for the results. I returned home from vacation this week to a pile of mail, a piece of which was from Pearson Vue congratulating me on my new certification, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Team Foundation Server Configuration and Development. My email sig file is really starting to get cluttered. Still waiting for that MCJOAT (Microsoft Certified Jack-Of-All-Trades) certification... February 22 Team Foundation Server Power Tool 1.2 ReleasedLooks like there are some nice features in this edition of the TFS Power Tool – a process template editor integrated with the Visual Studio IDE, a handful of check-in policies, a build task that simplifies the running of unit tests, and a few GUI enhancements to some of the TFPT commands. But the best surprise of all...my personal favorite the Annotate command, is now integrated into the Source Control Explorer, making all those "Who the heck coded this?" moments oh so fulfilling!
Check it out! http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2007/02/20/1731907.aspx
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