IntelliTect is proud to announce two of our team members have been chosen to teach at the Office Microsoft DevCamps. This training series targets developers worldwide on Microsoft based Technologies and Products. Mark Michaelis, a Microsoft Regional Director, Trainer and MVP, and Michael Stokesbary, a SharePoint Development Architect and Trainer were asked to instruct software engineers around the world on building applications using Office and SharePoint 2013. They will be educating developers in nine locations worldwide. Mark will be covering the engagements in: Seattle, Washington, Beijing, China, Delhi, India, Bangalore, India, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Irvine, California. Michael Stokesbary [...]
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For those of us frequently presenting, we are faced with having to switch to presenter fonts by changing the font size for multiple different display items on the Environment->Fonts and Colors Options dialog or (if we are looking for an adequate but not optimal solution) simple changing the zoom level. Of course, when we get back to our desks, we have to switch back the settings to fit with our 3 monitor 2560 × 1600 WQXGA resolution (purely hypothetical in my case).
To streamline the change the November release of the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools 2012 (see [...]
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If you have had a Team Foundation Server (TFS) instance running for any significant length of time you undoubtedly have old shelvesets lying around from other developers (surely you wouldn’t have done this) that have long ago expired and although moldy, they have not disintegrated. Consider cleaning them up using the following short PowerShell script from Kelly Adams:
Get-TfsShelveset -Owner * |
?{ $_.CreationDate -lt “7/1/2012″ } |
%{ Remove-TfsShelveset -ShelveSet (“{0};{1}” -f $_.Name, $_.OwnerName) }
Note:
The “-Owner *” on the Get-TfsShelveset command is what finds shelvesets from other developers rather than just yourself.
You need to have the Team [...]
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Updated October 31st, 2012 to reflect the official release of Team Foundation Service.
Microsoft now provides a cloud based version of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) called Team Foundation Service hosted at https://tfs.visualstudio.com.
This post provides high level analysis and review of the advantages and disadvantages of Team Foundation Service versus deploying Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (VS TFS) to corporate IT infrastructure or “on premise”.[1]
Overview
Microsoft has made Visual Studio Team Foundation Server available in a cloud version as Team Foundation Service. Team Foundation Service is currently available to the public at [...]
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Join @IntelliTect and @Microsoft for the Visual Studio 2012 Launch- Spokane!
Wednesday, October 17th
Starting at 6 pm
Center Place Regional Event Center
Spokane Valley, WA
For more event details and registration go to www.IntelliTect.com/VSLaunch2012-Spokane
As developers, we frequently end up with duplicate entries in our path. From the command line you can clean up your path using pathman.exe. Here’s a PowerShell Script to find the duplicates and remove them using Pathman.exe:
$extraPath=(($path.Split(“`;”) | group | ?{$_.Count -gt 1}).Values | %{$_[0]}
pathman.exe /ru $extrapath
Disclaimer: Works for us.
Asynchronous Programming with C# 5.0 – Mark Michaelis
In C# 5.0 there is really only one significant syntax addition – support for asynchronous programming that is embedded into the language. In this session we go over the is and is-nots of what C# 5.0 enables in the way of parallel processing – both for the UI and for the server tier. Don’t miss this session to learn not only the fundamental syntax but also the best practices and scenarios of what the async keyword enables.
PowerShell for Developers – Mark Michaelis &
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Recently I came across a need to know where a Team Foundation Server 2010 build definition dropped the files after a successful build. I probably could have written a custom Activity and queried TFS in C# code, but the build definition in question heavily leverages PowerShell and the Psake domain specific language, so I wanted to keep it in PowerShell (as it’s my new favorite thing). Searching around on Google, I did find some promising leads, but nothing that was both targeted towards the TFS 2010 API, and PowerShell 2.0.
So without any more preamble, here is what I [...]
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Congratulations to IntelliTect’s Ian Davis who has been awarded the C# Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2012! This exceptional award recognizes technical individuals across 90 countries who are leaders in their community and are passionate about sharing their knowledge with others.
Ian was nominated for this award because of his role in building the development community! Ian is an amazing contributor to open source development including Ninject, Eeyore Configuration, Eeyore Bits, Giles, Chewie and others. For a more in-depth list of Ian’s project contributions visit
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There are several items that deserve highlighting from Erin Chapple’s post (via Jeffry Snover) titled, “Rocking the Windows Server “8” Administrative Experience”. Here’s my gist:
Administration designed for one a single-role centric view to a multi-server view of the environment. The result is that rather than administer a role on a particular server you will now be able to administer a role that may span multiple servers.
The PowerShell based Command-line Interface (CLI) for Windows administration is a both/and experience – both CLI and GUI.
CLI automation increases reliability, auditability, and predictability – across multiple servers none-the-less.
Server Core is the preferred [...]
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