Today I received a message from codeplex telling me that I needed to publish my tfsproxy project on codeplex. I tried doing that but it won’t let me because I didn’t had any source code in the tfs servers. So I decided to let the project get closed on May 1 2009.
For those that are still looking for the code You can find it here on my skydrive folder.
Today I found that the first CTP for visual studio .net 2010 and the .net framework 4.0 is available for download. If you want a quick overview of some of the new features go to this website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspx
Personally I really am starting to hate the whole silverlight technology. The first version was crap because you had to be some guru to be able to program something fancy looking and now the second version is out and the tools are crap. So what’s next crappy visual studio .net 2010 all together? I really would like the guys at MS to take it a bit slower so they can increase the quality of their products.
I was trying to install the new Team Foundation Server 2008 the other day. I wanted to install it in an dual machine configuration, meaning that I wanted to separate the database from the application server.
To do this I downloaded the new Vmware Server 2.0 which is actually a “light” version of the VmWare Infrastructure 3.0. I’ve installed 2 guest machines running both Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
An additional requirement is that the TFS server uses the new Sql Server 2008. And here is the problem. “To use Sql Server 2008, you must install Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1″. But how can you do this when all you’ve got is the RTM version of TFS and a separate download of the service pack…
Well if you download the latest TFS installation guide from Microsoft (version 8.0.080908). Somewhere in there you’ll find a small entry on how to merge the service pack with the tfs installation files. When you follow this guide like I did you might encounter an error from MSI with error code 2203. When this is happening you should try to do the following:
- Run the command from a command prompt with elevated privileges
- Grant Full Controll permissions to the SYSTEM user on the folders where you’ve copied the installation files from the dvd.
And finaly the very important make sure that the installation files you’ve copied from the dvd are NOT marked as read-only!!! This last thing solved the problem for me.
Yesterday I was surfing around a bit and went to the codeplex.com site. I noticed that they had given it a new look. I really like this new look. The old one wasn’t very user-friendly if you ask me. I especially hated to way you had to browse for projects. The new way of search results is much more appealing to the eye
Although nobody really uses the program for which this technology was initialy created – Microsoft Frontpage – there are still programs that use the FPSE. Like Visual Studio .Net uses it to publish a website/webservice.
With the new IIS 7.0 most developers will know about the “publish problem” from vs.net to an IIS 7.0 web server, because of the different meta system that come with IIS 7.0 this vs.net feature stopped working “properly”. You could choose for the traditional XCopy and in vs.net 2005 for publishing through FTP. There is also an option to turn on backward IIS 6.0 compatibility in IIS 7.0 for legacy systems.
Microsoft and Ready to Run Software have released a beta version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE 2002) for Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.
Features
This version of FPSE 2002 introduces no new functionality, and is essentially the same version that was created for Windows Server 2003 that has been updated to work on Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.
Benefits
FPSE 2002 enables web hosters and developers to author their web content on servers or workstations that are running IIS 7.0 on Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Vista.
That’s simple buy a house that needs to be finished in the meantime switch jobs and on top of that move out of your current appartement.
I’ve not been writing as much as would like, but I can’t seem to find the time. Lately I’ve been watching more closely to LINQ, Nhibernate, EDM, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio .net Codename ”Orcas”… I know that’s a lot but I can’t keep up and I would like to explore as much as humanly possible under current conditions.
Anyways my findings in short are:
LINQ: nice NHibernate: same as LINQ = nice + advantage current support .net 2.0 and older versions. EDM: yeah well… nice as well Windows Server 2008: mmm still beta, should say enough. VS.Net Orcas: surprisingly “stable”.
Anson Horton wrote a very nice article for the MSDN magazine June 2007 edition. It gives you an overview of how LINQ (Language Integrated Query) has evolved from the idea of the concept to an actual technology. A nice extra on this article is that he shows a lot which new language features in C# 3.0 made it actually possible to come to version on LINQ we have now. It’s thanks to Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, Anonymous Type, Implicitly Type Local Variables, Object Intitializers and Query expressions that LINQ can offer you a very nice language enhancement to query for example objects, dataset, xml, …
Glenn Block wrote a comparison of the new Microsoft Codename “Acropolis” and SCSF/CAB. If you take a look you’ll immediate notice some similarities or perhaps the logical evolution of SCSF for applications that support the new “stuff” like WPF, WF and so on… Check it out if you like the CAB concept you will definitely like Acropolis!!!
