Get your users to help you reproduce errors with the Problem Steps Recorder 17 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot If you’re a developer, you must have run into a user experiencing problems with your software, AND this user finds it hard to explain what steps were taken to reach the problem. Luckily, Windows 7 now comes with a great feature called to Problem Steps Recorder. This tools will record each step taken... [More]
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]
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]
Happy new 2010! 27 December 2009 Peter-Himschoot Good health, lots of fun @ work, great time @ leisure. What else?
Using Workflow4 extensions 30 November 2009 Peter-Himschoot WF 4 Workflow Foundation 4 allows you to add your own custom activities in code. You have a choice of CodeActivity, AsyncCodeActivity and NativeActivity. CodeActivity is ideal if you want to add a simple activity that doesn’t block. AsyncCodeActivity is great if you need an activity that needs to d... [More]