Victor Stodell

I have been using the Team Foundation Services preview for a while now, and the least I can say is that I am impressed! The web interface has a nice Metro style design and gives a high quality experience overall. By installing the KB2581206  hotfix I can also access my TFS account from Visual Studio, which is absolutely fantastic. I might even sound a bit fanatic by saying that it is like a dream come true... The server appears as a traditional Team Foundation Server in Visual Studio apart from the logon process (a Windows Live popup window). Read more and try it out yourself! Besides playing around with the user interface I have actually tried to work a little seriously with the service as well. Partly by uploading my project the Cornball and developing against the TFS in Visual Studio. So far this experience is very positive and I have not found any issues or oddities at all, except that the environment is kind of slow. This whole thing also takes me one step further out i...

The first time you open Team Explorer to connect to Team Foundation Server there are three things that needs to be done before you can start working against the server. Register server in Visual Studio Select active projects in Team Explorer Create workspace in Source Control I got a request if there was a way to automate these steps. Of course it can be done, but there are some light hacking involved. Here is what I cam up with: Register server Registered servers are easy to manage since they are saved in the registry. Given that the user has write access to the registry this step is easy to automate. The structure is as shown below, where my server is called ServerName . The key names explain themselves and this is all that is needed for Visual Studio to find the server as a registered Team Foundation Server. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Servers] "ServerName"="http://servername:8080/" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwa...

I am proud to announce that I have made the cerification  MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server . This turned out to be a fairly smooth process since the certification only consists of one exam. This certification is a must have if you are working with installation and configuration of Team Foundation Server. It is kind of puzzling that there is no upgrade of the  exam 70-510  for TFS 2008. Sure there are not any ground breaking changes since TFS 2005, but it still has been three years. Certifications sure are fun, I wonder what is next?

Today  Scott Guthrie  visited Stockholm and Chinateatern to talk about the news in Visual Studio 2010 , ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2 och Silverlight 4. I could sum this up with just one word: awesome! As usual I get incredibly excited to get my hands on all of these new cool stuff and I am really longing for the release of  Visual Studio 2010  . Until further notice I have to settle with playing around with the beta 2 at home. I am not going to go through all of the news in the products, because it is available in so many other places, such as  Scott Guthrie's blog . He has among other things written a series of posts where he deals with the news in  Visual Studio 2010  . Much of what was shown today I have already seen or read about on various blogs, but one thing that I completely missed is the  IIS SEO Toolkit . It is simply a tool that is installed as an addition to IIS 7 and analyzes the search engine friendliness of any public web site a...