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Visual Studio 2012 Schema Comparison

Having recently been playing with the newly released Visual Studio 2012, one of the really nice features that I’ve seen is the Database Schema Comparison...

0 replies - 6531 views - 08/20/12 by Nick Haslam in Articles

Fluent Interfaces in C# – Extension Methods

For those of you who haven't read the previous post. This post is the 2nd of many where I explain how to use C# and a bag of tricks to create fluent...

1 replies - 2814 views - 07/17/12 by Dror Helper in Articles

Migrating Data From FogBugz to TFS 2012 Using the TFS Integration Platform

As part of my current engagement I will be moving data from FogBugz via a custom CSV Tip Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform. This an adapter I wrote...

0 replies - 2835 views - 07/17/12 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

TFS Integration Tools – Issue: AnalysisProvider Not Found

Issue When you are trying to load your custom Adapter you receive a message stating that it does not exist. Figure: AnalysisProvider...

0 replies - 1625 views - 07/16/12 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

The MOF Gets Cloudy

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF...

0 replies - 1933 views - 07/16/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

One Team Project

I have talked often of the idea of a Project of Projects in Team Foundation Server and with the new feature in Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server I ...

0 replies - 2088 views - 07/15/12 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

Digging WPF Data Binding With the "WPF DataBinding References & Tutorials" Wiki

TechNet Wiki Articles - WPF DataBinding References & Tutorials Windows Presentation Foundation has a completely redesigned system for binding data...

0 replies - 1693 views - 07/14/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

IQueryable Read Model Extension Methods

The normalized data model of the database is often not suitable for reading and displaying data. A separate read model used to represent all the data needed to...

0 replies - 1757 views - 07/14/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Separating the Read Model

A typical architecture of a .NET web application is to use EF Code First for data access and MVC to render the web pages. The data model in the database is...

0 replies - 1825 views - 07/10/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

MythBusters: Arrays Versus Collections

The myths I want to tackle are: Arrays are not collections Arrays are faster than collections These are two statements I have heard recently and I disagree...

0 replies - 2620 views - 07/07/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24743 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

When Should I Use An ORM?

I think like everyone, I go through the same journey whenever I find out about a new technology.. Huh? –> This is really cool –> I use it everywhere...

4 replies - 13660 views - 06/25/12 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

ASP.NET MVC 4: Where Have All The Global.asax Routes Gone?

I ran into this a few days back and had been meaning to blog about it, so here it finally is while it’s still interesting information. In ASP.NET MVC...

0 replies - 4170 views - 06/24/12 by Jon Davis in Articles

Presenting Visual Studio ALM and Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 In Production

I was actually a little surprised by one of my customers this week. I was there to help them finalise their deployment of TFS 2010 (that they were...

0 replies - 3093 views - 06/20/12 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

Understanding the Windows 8 Metro Grid XAML Project Template

Bruno Terkaly - Developer Evangelist - bterkaly@microsoft.com - How to provide cloud-based, JSON data to Windows 8 Metro Grid Applications – Part 2 ...

0 replies - 3255 views - 06/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles