Noah Coad
A Microsoft Program Manager on Visual Studio Platform (and an underground coder, lifehacker, hockey player)
TechEd 2007: DEV320 Follow Up
An Overview of Visual Studio Team Developer tools was given at TechEd 2007 as DEV320, Writing...
Author: noahc Date: 06/07/2007
TechEd 2007: Party with Palermo
If you're getting in to Orlando by Sunday 7pm is Party with Palermo, I'll be there! Boy this guy can...
Author: noahc Date: 06/02/2007
What I'm Listening to: Santana
Carlos Santana's music is simply awesome! I'm addicted to these CDs. Okay, I admit, I'm way behind...
Author: noahc Date: 05/24/2007
Amazon Short URL RegEx
When you search amazon.com, it takes you to product pages that have a real long URL. It can be nice...
Author: noahc Date: 05/22/2007
ShellExec (a tiny tool)
Download ShellExec (source code) Here's a really simple but surprisingly useful little tool. It...
Author: noahc Date: 05/09/2007
SnagIt - Top Notch Screen Capturing
In my quest to blog a little review of most of my favorite apps, I come to SnagIt by TechSmith....
Author: noahc Date: 05/01/2007
Team Developer MSDN Forums Refactored
We've done some refactoring to our Team System MSDN web forums that should significantly help...
Author: noahc Date: 04/26/2007
Swift To-Do List
To Do List management on the PC has been a long time struggle for me to find the right app. A few...
Author: noahc Date: 04/16/2007
Desktop Wallpaper from Paris, France
A few months ago I did a training week long training course in Paris, France (not Texas). Dawn came...
Author: noahc Date: 04/04/2007
TeamPlain Aquired as Team System Web Access
We just aquired TeamPlain which provides a nice web user interface on top of Team Foundation Server!...
Author: noahc Date: 03/26/2007
HTML Applications (HTAs)
HTML Applications (HTAs) are DHTML pages that have full local privileges. They've been around...
Author: noahc Date: 03/26/2007
Team System MVPs on Campus
The MVP Global Summit 2007 is going on right now and today is the first day of meetings between the...
Author: noahc Date: 03/14/2007
Hide the IE7 Command Bar
Here's a registry hack for removing Internet Explorer 7's toolbar with the standard buttons on it...
Author: noahc Date: 03/12/2007
Search Work Items, Team System Addin
The ability to quickly and easily search for work items using a little search box seams to be a...
Author: noahc Date: 03/08/2007
Rolling Up Status on Work Items
Say you have a work item type (WIT) that represent a big task, like a Feature, then you have...
Author: noahc Date: 03/05/2007
USB Memory Keys, 1GB $10, 4GB $30
I was just looking up USB Memory Sticks and was amazed at the price they're at these days....
Author: noahc Date: 02/28/2007
Your Bugs Are Our Top Priority
It's true. Believe it or not. When you submit a bug report related to Visual Studio...
Author: noahc Date: 02/27/2007
Folder Size for Windows Explorer
Latest Update, WinDirStat (6/18/08) Found a newer and better tool! WinDirStat is also free and...
Author: noahc Date: 02/26/2007
Post 100 - Blog Stats and Post Highlights
I was digging around recently and came across an interesting fact... My blog gets more views per...
Author: noahc Date: 02/21/2007
Get a Web Page's Title from a URL (C#)
I was creating an app that saves URLs copied to the clipboard into an XML file. This little bit of...
Author: noahc Date: 02/19/2007
Bluetooth Headset Review
My Motorola H850 was lost, so I've tried three of the latest & greatest headsets, here's my...
Author: noahc Date: 02/06/2007
Jan 28th - My 28th Birthday
Yup, it's 28 yrs as of today. Just thought it'd be fun to drop a quick note on the world that I've...
Author: noahc Date: 01/28/2007
TFS Work Item Hierarchy
.altrow {background: ;} .appname {font-size: 10pt;} .boxed {border: black 1px solid; padding: 4px;...
Author: noahc Date: 01/26/2007
Outlook C# Extensibility: Contacts Without a Photo
Gosh I love extensibility. I'd so much rather take the time to write an app to automate a 1min task,...
Author: noahc Date: 01/23/2007
Real TFS Command Line Help
John Lyon-Smith, a developer on my team, put togther this extensive command line help for Team...
Author: noahc Date: 01/22/2007
Managing Lots of Work Item Queries
.altrow {background: ;} .appname {font-size: 10pt;} .boxed {border: black 1px solid; padding: 4px;...
Author: noahc Date: 01/19/2007
MSDN Wiki - Top Contributor is David M. Kean
If you haven't checked it out yet, check out MSDN Library's Wiki! It is the full MSDN Library, but...
Author: noahc Date: 12/28/2006
What Would Make Debugging Cool?
The Visual Studio Debugger is probably one of the most used dev tools in the world, but what could...
Author: noahc Date: 12/22/2006
Friends? You+Me+Netflix
Got a Netflix account? Let's be friends, and share queues / recently watched lists. I'm always...
Author: noahc Date: 12/20/2006
Music I Wrote as a Kid
When I was about 14yrs old I was playing around with MIDI on the PC, I didn't have a piano keyboard,...
Author: noahc Date: 12/01/2006
VSTS Book: Professional Team Foundation Server
Congratulations to my friends Jean-Luc David, Mickey Gousset, and Erik Gunvaldson on thier recent...
Author: noahc Date: 11/30/2006
Rapid Pickup Process
Dawn says I'm good at attacking a mess in the house (papers, trinkets, living room, clothing, a...
Author: noahc Date: 11/29/2006
Vista: Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows Explorer
When navigating files in Windows Vista, either in Windows Explorer or a File Dialog (like "Open...
Author: noahc Date: 11/14/2006
I'm Upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007
My only work computer (laptop w/ XP Pro) died this morning. Since we just RTMed Windows Vista, I...
Author: noahc Date: 11/13/2006
Getting a Small Virtual PC Image - WinXP Pro in 550MB
I find Virtual PC (now free!) incredibly useful! VPCs are just so great for testing software,...
Author: noahc Date: 11/10/2006
Insert Formatted Clipboard plugin for Window Live Writer
Download: Insert Formatted Clipboard for WLW Setup WLW Beta2 Update: WLW Beta2 now support pasting...
Author: noahc Date: 11/08/2006
The Multi-Tasking Myth
Jeff Atwood has a great post on the cost of context-switching between projects. The results are...
Author: noahc Date: 11/07/2006
MS Word Tip: Automatic Bold on Bulleted Lists
I was just typing along just now and stumbled on this handy feature of MS Word. As a PM, I...
Author: noahc Date: 11/06/2006