Monthly Archives: August 2006

How to stop auto-connecting to TFS

Nick, Noah and Dave have all blogged about this little nugget of TFS gold from Marc and Tim Noonan.
If your TFS activities rely on you being connected to the Internet or a VPN, then you’ve probably experienced a delay when starting Visual Studio when you’re not connected.
It’s easily fixed with a registry tweak. Download tfs_autoloadserver_off.reg.txt [...]

Tools of the Trade

There’s been some discussion lately about what tools people use for different tasks, especially in the “online” space. I’d like to share the tools and services that I rely on.
Blog Writing
In the past I have used and purchased BlogJet. However for the last few weeks I’ve been using Windows Live Writer and it rocks my [...]

TechEd Session Pickers Reviewed

For TechEd 2006 in Sydney there were a number of options available for deciding which sessions to go to. They all source their information from the RSS feed.

Paul Stovell – WPF
Bill McCarthy – VB.NET
Craig Bailey – TechEd Live
Microsoft’s own CommNet

While I’ve used all of them at various points in time, I kept coming back to [...]

TechEd Sydney 2006 – Dev’Garten

During TechEd last week at the Sydney Convention Centre, I spent a lot of time in Dev’Garten. Overall it was a great experience.
I didn’t realise it at first, but it soon became clear that the TechEd Dev’Garten served two purposes:

A top-notch Team Foundation Server environment where people could learn how TFS works and what it [...]