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Preventing new Remote Desktop sessions in Server 2003
This post was originally published here . I have both a laptop and a desktop, and it's fairly often that I remote into my desktop to do development. Although my laptop is no slouch, you really can't beat a desktop dev experience. However, my dev...
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Wed, May 30 2007 1:34 PM
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bogardj
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Refactoring NAnt and MSBuild build scripts
This post was originally published here . A while back, I talked about the harmful effects of "Copy Paste" . While editing some NAnt and MSBuild build scripts, I forgot about the evil twin of "Copy Paste", which is "Find and Replace"...
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Tue, May 29 2007 1:22 PM
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bogardj
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TFS Guide now available
This post was originally published here . One thing I always thought was missing from MSDN regarding TFS was any kind of guidance or best practices. Just released was a Beta 1 of a TFS Best Practices guide, and after taking a quick look at the contents...
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Thu, May 24 2007 11:32 AM
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bogardj
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VSTS
Team Foundation Build, Part 3: Creating a Build
This post was originally published here . In part 1 and 2 of this series, I gave an overview of Team Foundation Build and discussed installation and configuration options . One thing I should note is that if a team needs to add custom tasks to the build...
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Thu, May 24 2007 11:31 AM
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bogardj
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Unit testing with stubs and Rhino Mocks
This post was originally published here . I've been using Rhino Mocks for about a year now, and Oren has never failed to impress me with the features he keeps adding on a regular basis. I needed to test a particular method that accepted an IProfile...
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Wed, May 23 2007 11:25 AM
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bogardj
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Team Foundation Build, Part 2: Installation and Configuration
This post was originally published here . So now that we have some understanding of what the components of Team Build are from Part 1 , where should these components be installed? Luckily, there's some pretty good documentation on Team Foundation...
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Wed, May 23 2007 11:15 AM
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bogardj
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Team Foundation Build, Part 1: Introduction
This post was originally published here . There's been some interest recently for our team to utilize more features of Team System, including Team Foundation Build . Rather than send out a blanket email, I'm following Jon Udell's advice and...
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Tue, May 22 2007 11:12 AM
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bogardj
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Fun with recursive Lambda functions
This post was originally published here . I saw a couple of posts on recursive lambda expressions , and I thought it would be fun to write a class to encapsulate those two approaches. BTW, I'm running this on Orcas Beta 1, so don't try this at...
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Fri, May 18 2007 10:46 AM
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bogardj
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Project management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
This post was originally published here . Having used Team System in the past, I've been trying to wrap my head around using Team System for work items in our group. We're using Team System exclusively for source control, but there's a lot...
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Thu, May 17 2007 10:37 AM
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bogardj
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Parsing strings with the TryParse method
This post was originally published here . I recently posted on the out and ref keywords in C#, and mentioned the only time I'd see the "out" keyword was in the Tester-Doer pattern. Well, I was really looking for the Try-Parse pattern (near...
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Tue, May 15 2007 10:33 AM
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bogardj
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Pop quiz on ref and out parameters in C#
This post was originally published here . If you line up 100 C# developers, I would be willing to bet that the number of developers that could explain the difference between out and ref parameter keywords could be counted on one hand. When I first started...
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Fri, May 11 2007 9:43 AM
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bogardj
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C#
Proper string comparison
This post was originally published here . It seems developers have a knack for collecting technical books. I have a system where books are available to me relative to their importance. Books I crack once every few months stay at home. If I start needing...
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Fri, May 11 2007 9:42 AM
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bogardj
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Consistency in user interface behavior
This post was originally published here . I know I can't be the only person that gets annoyed by this, but the developers of Windows Messenger and Office Communicator must have been on crack when they determined behavior for the "Close"...
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Mon, May 07 2007 9:39 AM
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bogardj
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Another reason to love ReSharper
This post was originally published here . Whenever I look at a class in code for the first time, I try to figure out what its responsibilities are. Ideally, I would look at unit tests exercising the public interface. These unit tests will give me a description...
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Thu, May 03 2007 9:34 AM
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bogardj
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