Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available via MSDN sub download 08 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Download VS2010 RC here. And soon available for everyone tomorrow!
Gated Check In with Multiple Build Definitions 05 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development As promised in my previous blog on Gated Check In, in this blog I’ll discuss using multiple builds with gated check in. So what happens when you check in (using gated check in) and there are multiple build definitions targeting the solution? Well, Gated Check In will then allow you to choose betwee... [More]
Never break a build again with the new Gated Check-in feature from Visual Studio Team System 2010 04 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Breaking the current team build is not a good thing. This will cause many people to lose time while the build is being fixed. So how can you avoid this? One way is by only checking-in on isolated branches, which allow you first to test if everyone’s changes build together. But, remember that Team ... [More]
Hiding / Showing Jump Lists in windows 7 29 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Windows 7 The jump list feature in Windows 7 makes it really easy to find the documents you were working on for each application. Just go to the taskbar and right-click the application. If your application has been enabled for jump lists (and they should, it is really easy to enable this using some API’s) the... [More]
Techdays 2010 26 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, WCF, WF 4 I’m happy to say I’ll be speaking at TechDays 2010 in Belgium and DevDays 2010 in the Netherlands. In Belgium I’ll be doing one session on “What is new in WCF 4” and one session on “Workflow Foundation 4”. In the Netherlands I’ll do on session on “What is new in WCF4” and one on “Developing for Wi... [More]
Planning, Running and measuring tests with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Test and Lab Manager 24 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, Team System, .NET Development So what does Visual Studio 2010 bring for testers? A whole lot! Especially the new test environment, where you can create a test plan to validate the quality of the software you’re building. A test plan is a collection of test cases, which you can then run. While running the system keeps track of a ... [More]
Using the WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 23 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, WPF/Silverlight Visual Studio 2010 now has a cool little feature I want to show you. When you’re debugging WPF applications, you sometimes need to see the controls and their hierarchy. Now with VS2010 this is easy. Simply use the magnifying class (the visualizer feature) and select the WPF Tree Visualizer: ... [More]
WCF and large messages 23 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot WCF, VS2010, .NET Development, Entity Framework This week I’ve been training a couple of people on how to use .NET, WCF4, Entity Framework 4 and other technologies to build an Enterprise Application. One of the things we did was return all rows from a table, and this table contains about 2500 rows. We’re using the Entity Framework 4 self-tracking... [More]
Using the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger to save and reproduce bugs 22 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate now has IntelliTrace, which is a historical debugging feature. IntelliTrace will keep track of everything your code has been doing and then, when a bug arrives, you can back-track to the possible cause of the bug. You might think this is nothing new, but don’t forget it a... [More]
Building an Enterprise Application with Entity Framework 4 20 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, Entity Framework Entity Framework 3 was a bit of a disappointment when it came to supporting enterprise applications. For me the major reason was the fact that entities used by EF required deriving from a class which is part of EF, thus coding the EF requirement into your Business Logic Layer (BLL) and presentation ... [More]