Using the Visual Studio 2010 layer diagram to verify your solution 17 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System Visual Studio 2010 adds a whole new series of modeling tools to the product, including UML modeling. In this post I want to discuss the Layer diagram and its relation to building enterprise applications. The Layer Diagram Visual studio 2010 now comes with new modeling tools, which you can reach th... [More]
Project Management: Planning an iteration with Team System 2010 11 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System, VS2010 In my previous post I talked about planning a whole project. Now I want to blog about planning a single iteration using the new Team System 2010 iteration with Excel and Project. After creating the user stories, the next step is to break each user story into detailed tasks. To facilitate this, ... [More]
Project Management: Hierarchical Work Items with Visual Studio and Project in Team System 2010 11 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development In my previous posts I talked about high level project management, and detailed iteration planning. Both created work items, mainly user stories with child task work items. How does this work in Visual Studio? And what about MS Project? Visual Studio and hierarchical work items Let’s start with Vi... [More]
Tips en tricks met de Visual Studio Debugger 10 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Een tijdje geleden heb ik een webcast opgenomen met Microsoft rond beter debuggen met Visual Studio 2008. Abstract: “De Visual Studio debugger is een tool die door ontwikkelaars nog te weinig wordt gebruikt. In deze sessie tonen we hoe u hem als professional kunt gebruiken en leren we nieuwe techni... [More]
Project Management: Planning a project with Team System 2010 08 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, Team System Project management has changed. Changed towards SCRUM based project management where you start by building a list of User Stories, also known as the backlog... This list of user stories allows you to plan the project by selecting the highest priority user stories, adding them to an iteration, planni... [More]
The Missing Linq to SQL Spatial 03 January 2010 Diederik-Krols SQL Server, Spatial This article provides hints and hacks on how to use the SQL Server spatial data types -Geography and Geometry- in Linq to SQL. The data provider has a problem with serializing and deserializing the SQL UDT's. If you ever tried to use these data types in a Linq to SQL (or Entity Framew... [More]
Converting Spatial Coordinates with Proj.NET 01 January 2010 Diederik-Krols In my previous article I expressed some disappointment in the usefulness of the Map Projections in SQL Spatial Tools on CodePlex. There's not much you can do with these in a real-life application. Fortunately there's also Proj.NET on CodePlex, a flexible advanced point-to-point coordinate conversion... [More]
God mode for windows 7 01 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot I love windows 7, but now I love it even more. Remember these game cheats, called god mode? There is one in windows 7 as well. Thanks to http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-enable-secret-godmode.html Simple create a folder called GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Now you can a... [More]