Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
A "Wonder Cabinet" of Web 2.0 Curiosities
The Semantic Bliki
My friend Steve has been doing some thinking around and about the convergence of the weblog and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2004
How To: Remove a Project from Source Control in Visual Studio
In a comment to my most recent post, Scott asks, “what is the proper way to remove an item...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2003
Error: Visual Studio project or solution appears to be under source control, but isn't...
The following question was raised on an aspadvice (product-vsnet) list this morning: “Hey...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2003
Recommended Whitepapers on ASP.NET, Source Control, and VSS
Develop a disciplined approach to ASP.NET Web project management: Using Visual SourceSafe for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2003
Cool Feedster Feature
One of the PMs on my team emailed this to me today: “Feedster is a search engine for weblogs,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2003
My New Weblog Address
Check out my new blog at https://weblogs.asp.net/korbyp.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/11/2003
Response.Write(”Hello Weblogs.ASP.NET”);
Hi there. I'm Korby Parnell, a programmer/writer on the Visual Studio and Visual SourceSafe team at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/11/2003
SCCBridge: Free Remote Access Client for VSS
Need to access your VSS projects when you're not on the company network? Currently, Eric Sink's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2003
Free Online Source Control, Bug Tracking, and Team Development Tools
If you're reading my blog--and believe me, you really are--and you're a software developer or IT...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/25/2003
How To: Copy a File from One VSS Project to Another
To COPY a file in VSS Explorer: Right-click the file in project A and hold. Drag it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2003
Help Wanted
Okay, Microsoft may not be Joel Spolsky's vision of the perfect software development company...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2003
Getting the Most out of My Blog
Viewing Old Posts by Category By default, this Website only displays seven (7) calendar days of blog...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/18/2003
Martyn Lovell Has a Blog
Martyn Lovell, erstwhile source control guru and charter member of the Visual <name your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/17/2003
Inexpensive Usability Testing Techniques
We recently completed a round of usability tests for the next version of Visual SourceSafe. At...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/11/2003
Update to Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap for 2004-2005
As reported in The Future of Visual SourceSafe... Under cover of darkness last...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2003
The Future of Visual SourceSafe
A few months ago, I mentioned in Roadmap for SourceSafe and Beyond that the SourceSafe...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/03/2003
How To: Diff/Compare Two Labels in Visual SourceSafe
This batch script creates a text file containing the differences between two labels of a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/28/2003
The Canoniczar Says that Canonicalize Ain't an English Word, Foo
The other day, I realized that in English, we don't have a word for: 'a person who canonizes'. The...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/27/2003
SharpWiki on the Web
Chris Anderson has opened up a Windows Longhorn WikiWiki to the world. Bravo, Chris! ...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/23/2003
Reviews: Integrating Visual Studio, SourceSafe, and SQLServer
DBenson (aka hurcane) reviews two third-party products, SQL Source Control 2003 and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/22/2003
How To: Split a VSS Database into Two or More Databases
[In this post, I provide a previously undocumented method for dividing the contents of one database...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2003
an Office Space state of mind
It's 6:13PM on a blustery Friday evening in Redmond. The lights have been flickering all day. My...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/17/2003
PDC Preview: the Don Box Talx
Are you going to PDC? If so, I hope you have tickets and I highly recommend the Indigo...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/17/2003
Weblogs: An Asymmetrical Threat to Google Hegemony?
"The humble weblog has finally achieved dominance over Google, the world's most-used search...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/15/2003
Whitepaper: Enhanced Source Control for Multi-Project Solutions
Alfredo Mendez, with the help of my incomparable editor (you know who you are:), published...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/14/2003
Keyword Expansion in Visual SourceSafe
Keyword expansion is a cool feature that automagically plants metadata from an external source in a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/13/2003
WikiWiki for the .NET docs?
In response to my recent post, Wikis and Accountability, reader Hassan comments, "I think a wiki...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2003
C# or MC++
Harry Pierson (DevHawk): "...it's much easier to expose a managed interface with MC++ than...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2003
SQLTeam Blog
Scott Watermasysk, banner bearer of .Text, announces the appearance of a nascent developer's weblog...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/08/2003
How To: Backup a SourceSafe Database
Need some time to catch up on your email or pay some bills? Wanna read an online article about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2003
IVSS State Management Conundrum
I recently received this C# code snippet from a customer (my question follows): //remove all...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2003
Blogger's Dinner
Conversation was lively and the camaraderie instant at the informal blogger's dinner last night in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/03/2003
Blog Your Cat Day
Today is the First Annual Blog Your Cat Day . Cybil, guardian of the blogsphere Leilu, blogacat
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/03/2003
Need Bicycle Recommendations
I need a commuter bike. Any recommendations or bike buying strategies? My needs include: Sub $1,000...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/02/2003
Dinner with Geeks
If you're in the Seattle area today, come join Scoble, Jeff Julian and who knows how many other...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/02/2003
Wikis and Accountability
I recently created an internal WikiWiki for my feature team.* Initially, it consists of an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/01/2003
SourceSafe Shadow Folders, Maintaining Synchronicity
A SourceSafe shadow folder is a UNC share* in which VSS maintains a current copy of the latest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/29/2003
Microsoft's Blogger Laureate
If you read my weblog on occasion, you may have noticed that I have steadfastly avoided the blogger...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2003
Craig Skibo is Blogging
It's true. Craig is now a blogger. Reader Chris Monachan recently asked in a comment to one of my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/23/2003
How To: Safely Rename a Source-Controlled File in Visual Studio .NET
Last Friday, I posted a procedure for renaming source-controlled items in VS.NET that fails to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2003
How To: Rename, Move, and Delete Source-Controlled Items in VS.NET
In response to my recent post, What is a Source Control Binding?, reader Keith Hill writes, "A bit...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2003
Powers of Two: Kibibites, Mebimites, and Gibibytes
Raymond comes through again with a description of the difference between gigabytes and gibibytes. I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2003
What is a VSS Shadow Folder?
I played racquetball yesterday against a Web developer who sometimes works as a vendor at Microsoft...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2003
MSBuild.exe
MSBuild is the [extensible, scalable, transparent] next generation build engine and platform for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/16/2003
I, blurker do solemnly swear...
I received this incredibly interesting seminar invitation this morning. ABSTRACT: Even in busy...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2003