Archive for April, 2008

What is Microsoft s new language? From Douglas Purdy’s blog: It

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

What is Microsoft s new language? From Douglas Purdy’s blog: It is not very often that you get to be part of a team that is developing a programming language that aspires to be used by every developer on the Microsoft ...

TestDriven.Net 2.13: Support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1I’ve just uploaded

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

TestDriven.Net 2.13: Support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1I've just uploaded a new version of TestDriven.Net with support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Microsoft have certainly kept me on my toes as there have been lots of changes since Silverlight 1.1. I'm sorry it has taken a while! At ...

Two Principles of Conversation By Kevin Cauble So what s a

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Two Principles of Conversation By Kevin Cauble So what s a programmer to do? Short of waiting for MIS managers to become enlightened, not much--except try to work around the problem as best we can.Click here for the full article. Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and ...

Zephyr unveils new test management system Zephyr has announced the

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Zephyr unveils new test management system Zephyr has announced the availability of its next generation test management system. Zephyr comes with a comprehensive set of test management features that facilitate superior management of all aspects of a Test Department and increase tester ...

Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Reporting Services -

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Reporting Services - Part 2 In this second part of the series, Eric shows the reader how to create a burndown chart using Reporting Services, Visual Studio 2008, and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 for an agile project. ...

Third XP Service Pack Inches Toward Vista With the lackluster

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Third XP Service Pack Inches Toward Vista With the lackluster adoption of Vista, perhaps Microsoft plans to migrate XP users by attrition one service pack at a time. The company today released Windows XP SP3, which enables in XP a slew of features, many native to ...

Upgrading processors for speed is doomed to failure According to

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Upgrading processors for speed is doomed to failure According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers the days of simply upgrading to faster processors in order to squeeze extra performance out of legacy applications are rapidly coming to an end. In a press release distributed today the company warns that ...

Grand Theft Auto receives acclaim Grand Theft Auto IV receives

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Grand Theft Auto receives acclaim Grand Theft Auto IV receives a string of near-perfect review scores ahead of its release on Tuesday.... Colin Harman MACITP Functional duplication; or WTF is the ...

MEF? Very interesting post over here…. mtaulty Places to Intervene

Monday, April 28th, 2008

MEF? Very interesting post over here.... mtaulty Places to Intervene in a System By Donella H. Meadows Here we continue the developer.* Systems and Software series, in which we explore the ...

Dynamic Buttons in Datagrid Not Firing Hi I’ve got a

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Dynamic Buttons in Datagrid Not Firing Hi I've got a datagrid that I'm populating and depending on the data returned depends on what button I add. That all works fine until I click on the button and it posts the page and loses everything. ...