Joshua Smith

Installing TFS 2008 on Windows Server 2008

I just completed the install of single-tier Team Foundation Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 Standard environment. This installation is slightly different from installing in a Windows Server 2003 environment. I ran into the dreaded 28100 error, but...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 2:58 PM by jsmith

Filed under: tfs 2008, windows server 2008

DRM-Free MP3 Music Downloads

Amazon has opened its DRM-free music store ! You may download music from its store that is not copy protected, and it is in 256 kbps! Here is what Amazon says: * Selection: Every day we add new music to our collection of over 2 million songs from independent...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2007 8:21 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Music

SQL 2005 and View Definition

If you want to be able to view the schema in a QA or Production instance of SQL 2005, you will need to run the following permission: GRANT VIEW DEFINITION ON SCHEMA::dbo TO user-account I have found this extremely useful so I can compare exactly WHAT...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2007 8:53 AM by jsmith

Filed under: SQL 2005

VS 2005 SP1

Microsoft released SP1 of VS 2005. You can download it at the following link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx Make sure to uninstall the web application projects BEFORE running the SP1 install. Otherwise you'll get...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2006 8:25 AM by jsmith

Filed under: .NET

US States in SQL Format

In almost every project I have worked on, I have needed the list of US states in a format to insert into a database. I am finally tired of recreating this list, and posting it for future use... create table USStates(USStateCd char(2) not null, USStateName...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2006 8:48 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Programming, Reference

When in doubt, check your firewall and/or anti-virus settings

When using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class in .NET, you may get a wonderful generic error that says the following: The SMTP host was not found. --> Unable to connect to the remote server. --> An established connection was aborted by the software...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2006 1:51 PM by jsmith

Filed under: .NET

SQL 2005 and foreign key indexes

SQL Server by default does not index foreign keys (to my knowledge). So, here is a little script that will generate your create index statements for you. Note this only works in SQL 2005 due to the new sys table schema... select 'create index IDX_'...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2006 4:32 PM by jsmith

Filed under: SQL 2005

Tab Behavior with Session

I may have missed the memo on this one, but the session object (and thus the context) crosses tabs in both Firefox and IE. What I mean is that opening the same website in a new tab will still keep all of your context information. In order to generate...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2006 11:41 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Firefox, IE7, ASP.NET

Firefox 2

Firefox 2 has been released, get it at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

Published Tue, Oct 10 2006 3:57 PM by jsmith

IE 7

IE 7 has been released! It can be downloaded from Microsoft at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Published Thu, Oct 10 2006 7:59 AM by jsmith

Codesmith 4.0 Beta 2 Released

Codesmith has released the second beta of its tool, it can be downloaded here: http://community.codesmithtools.com/blogs/announcements/archive/2006/10/16/CodeSmith40PublicBetaReleased.aspx The ActiveSnippets are extremely powerful! I highly recommend...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2006 7:55 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Codesmith

Web Software Factory

Microsoft has begun a P&P section for Web Software Factory, similar to the Composite UI pattern. They have released their fourth code drop. Check this project out at: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=websf.

Published Wed, Oct 10 2006 12:41 PM by jsmith

SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter

Vantec has released its new SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter. Excellent little tool! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812232002

Published Fri, Sep 09 2006 10:03 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Hardware

Check in Overrides

It is possible to implement a policy on Team Foundation Server to require work items to be associated with check ins. However, the developer does have the option to override this policy and check his or her code in anyway. Visibility into overridden check...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2006 10:46 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Team Systems

Team Systems and Continuous Integration

Here is an excellent post on continuous integration in Visual Studio Team Systems.. I have tested this successfully.. it also gives the developer greater flexibility in determining exactly what is done (for example, fire the build only if code at a certain...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2006 9:48 AM by jsmith

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