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http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation.  Zero means do not reconnect automatically. I first read about this setting over at Tim ...

Use this tool to enforce comments being added by developers when the check-in their code to a tfs source repository http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/08/22/3417.aspx More information can be found here about how to create check-in policies ...

I'm off to PDC next along with Colin, Paulo and Mick (no blog!) . I’m pretty excited about learning more about WCF and WPF and all those session related to Team System (current and next). Must remember to fill out the PDC Bingo page before I go.

A slick shortcut I stumbled across while doing some hobby coding at the weekend. Add a new type to your class, in the code below it's an interface I want to implement. Place the cursor over word and a little Smart Tag indicator appears: Hit SHIFT-ALT-F10 and the smart tag menu appears with the option to add an import directive for the unknown ...

I've updated my Lithium based XMLVisualizer for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. You can download the updated source from my ProjectDistributor workspace. Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?"

This post has been superseded by the following post: Conchango Xml Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 (RTM) Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?" About a month ago, I stumbled across Scott Nonnenberg's article “Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 ...

Here is the slide deck I presented at the Microsoft Architect Forum yesterday. I've included the notes I wrote for those who want links to books and tools I mentioned. Keep an eye on Colin's blog for the first half and his responses to the questions raised in the Q&A session. The last project I worked on had two major ...

I'm co-presenting with Conchango's CTO Colin Bird at the Microsoft Architect Forum: Software Tools and Methods event tomorrow (6th December). We're going to be talking about ''The Value of Agile Methods''. Colin will be covering Agile Methodologies, with particular reference to Scrum, while I will be focusing on the value and importance of ...

I've finally made it round to writing my first Conchango blog - readers of my other blog shouldn't worry - I will still be posting to it - but I'm going to be taking a more EenieMeanieMineyMo approach. For those who don't know I'm a Senior Technology Consultant (in the Microsoft .NET space), Certified ScrumMaster and member of the Agile ...