Archive for the 'Team Foundation Server' Category

As I’ve progressed with development of a website, I’ve increasingly come across problems with adapting LINQ with a Domain Driven Design. Here is what I have so far:
Data Context
Everything focuses around the data context. It is literally the glue that keeps things together. The data context encapsulates the Unit of Work and its associated object [...]


Quite recently I was asked to create a prototype using Team Edition for Database Professionals 2005 (Data Dude) and after installing the software, I tried creating a new database project. Imagine my surprise when I got the message:
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this [...]


Brian Harry has recently released a new version of Database Professional Power Tools! You can read up on it here.
Two things really interest me:

The ability to run code analysis on static sql code.

The data generation wizard to create data generation plans.

 Static Code Analysis
You can use the SqlAnalysis built task to perform static code analysis. [...]


I’ve been working on a few personal projects. One of them involved building an ASP.NET website. Being the good geek that I am, I thought I’d try out ASP.NET 3.5 and try using things I’ve never used before. That, unfortunately, proved to be my downfall. One of the new features I decided to implement was [...]


Today I was in a meeting with several TFS experts including Grant Holliday and Joe Schwetz. Joe presented on how Microsoft used TFS to handle their projects and the value it added to their organisation. I found it quite interesting to hear how Microsoft structured its development with TFS. Their branching structure, in particular, was [...]


I have successfully integrated Siebel Tools 7.7 with TFS. It took a bit of fiddling but it works. The integration, however, is purely on a source control level. Currently I’m working on a way to associate work items through Siebel and it doesn’t look too difficult.
Siebel Tools has an option to enable source control (Visual [...]


I’m extremely excited that TFS 2008 is released. I can foresee myself devoting a considerable amount of time getting a few virtual machines running with Orcas and TFS 2008.
The details for the features in TFS 2008 can be found on bharry’s weblog. There are a whole range of improvements and features which interest me such [...]