Richard Murillo on Software Development
Building Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL
Introduction The LINQ framework offers a basic pattern of sequence operators, allowing for primitive...
Date: 08/26/2009
Influencing Executives
Preparing Your Idea The first real step in preparing a proposal with a greater chance of success is...
Date: 06/17/2009
Easy String to Resource file refactoring
During the development of internal tools we often have to stop working on features and clean up...
Date: 02/10/2009
Utilizing memoization and Dijkstra’s Fibonacci algorithm to compute large values
More of an acute fascination than anything else I expanded my use of memoization for computation to...
Date: 10/15/2008
Extensions I found useful while developing with WPF and LINQ to SQL
When I observe developers writing solutions using LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, I see a...
Date: 10/15/2008
Significantly speeding up computations with smart predicates
There is a technique that allows optimization of repeated calculation results for a set of inputs...
Date: 10/15/2008
Software development outsourcing and client proximity
I had a recent comment come in that I wanted to share: I was wondering what your take was on...
Date: 03/08/2008
Team Foundation Server Power Tools (tfpt) 1.2 Released
Today the Team Foundation Server team announced the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power...
Date: 02/21/2007
Getting my Sandcastle Team Build targets file to work with Sandcastle September CTP
A few things before we get started: You will need the HTML Help Workshop installed September CTP of...
Date: 10/31/2006
Reusable MSBuild Sandcastle Targets File
Based on a past post, I have an external targets file you can place in your $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)...
Date: 10/30/2006
VSTF Feature Request
There have been several instances when working with multiple teams that they need to build different...
Date: 10/25/2006
Using Sandcastle August CTP and MSBuild to produce CHM documentation automatically
First, we created a cmd file to do the build for us. Syntax for calling the file is Build.cmd...
Date: 09/29/2006
I'm on Channel9!
Yay! I'm on the front page of Channel9 with an interview about using Visual Studio Team System in...
Date: 07/26/2006
Outlook 2007 Credential Challenge on Cached Exchange Server Connection
While nothing to do with VSTF or VSTS, I thought I’d share my challenges with everyone regarding an...
Date: 06/30/2006
What is leadership and why is it good to be a leader?
Leaders need to think beyond themselves and engage in conversations with their employees or...
Date: 06/21/2006
Key Design Scenarios with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server - System, Application, Resource Reuse
In order to effectively execute an IT strategy a roadmap must be created to contain and identify...
Date: 05/02/2006
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Feature Requests
I find it difficult to manage many Shared Queries in the work item tracker of VSTF. Sometimes I want...
Date: 04/28/2006
Key Design Scenarios with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server
First I want to start out with some observations: The Business expects IT to provide a technology...
Date: 04/26/2006
Strategic Architecture solutions are a way of thinking
Expanding on my previous post on accountability, fostering alignment across the enterprise is really...
Date: 04/21/2006
Driving Accountability with VSTF
I used to work with a developer, an agile methodology evangelist, who would often tell me stories...
Date: 04/19/2006
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider
Version 1.0 of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider has been released to the...
Date: 04/11/2006
Improving Team Foundation Server performance
Buck Hodges has a post in his blog outlining various tips for improving performance on Verifying LAN...
Date: 04/06/2006
The Differences between TFS Trial and RTM
I received a comment on my blog asking about the differences between TFS Trial and RTM. Here are...
Date: 04/05/2006
Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Free!
Download or order on CD a full copy of Virtual Server 2005 R2 for 32-bit or 64-bit platforms....
Date: 04/05/2006
Security Risk Management Guide
A security risk management guide has been posted to the Microsoft Download Center to help our...
Date: 04/05/2006
Some Helpful Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server books
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Out May 17) Software Engineering with...
Date: 04/03/2006
Team Foundation Server MSF Development Process Downloads Available
The packages for MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance and MSF for CMMI Process...
Date: 04/02/2006
SCRUM agile development methodology process template for Team Foundation Server
Conchango has released a process template add-in for Team Foundation Server. It's free and gives you...
Date: 03/30/2006
Team Foundation Server Trial Edition
Available on Microsoft Download Center!...
Date: 03/30/2006
Finally got our RC TFS installation upgraded to RTM
Had to go through the upgrade from RC to RTM for Team Foundation Server and I must say it is pretty...
Date: 03/29/2006
DSL Tools version of VSTS Work Item Type Designer
Darren Jefford has just published a post describing his tool to graphically edit Work Item Types in...
Date: 03/21/2006
Team Foundation Server has RTM'd
There has been much excitement over the RTM of TFS, however, you cannot buy a pretty boxed copy as...
Date: 03/20/2006
What I am looking for in a command-line work item tracking tool
John Lawrence asked in his blog entry "What features would you like for a command line work item...
Date: 03/06/2006
Undo checkout or lock by another user
Scenario: Another user has locked a file for checkout, but is no longer available to check the file...
Date: 03/06/2006
Resolving The identity DOMAINUsername is not a recognized identity error message on check in
Some information is out on the web about a bug that exists when creating a project that results in...
Date: 02/27/2006
What you will find on this blog
This blog will contain information about my group's adoption of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server...
Date: 02/22/2006