Monthly Archives: October 2006

Deleting all RSS feeds in Outlook 2007

I’ve been using the new RSS reader in Outlook 2007 for the past month or so. It’s been great having posts sitting there waiting to be read in ‘Unread Mail’. The other feature I love is being able to simply hit ‘forward’ on a post and send it to a colleague who might be interested.
I’m [...]

Anagram for Outlook

Ask yourself these two simple questions:
How many times have you copy and pasted first name, last name, business phone, business mobile out of somebody’s email signature block into an Outlook Contact?
How many times have you created a new appointment and transposed the start/end date/time, location and details into an Outlook Appointment?
I’ve been using this plug-in [...]

TFS: Stop all Team Builds

I’ve been mucking about developing a build solution for a client at the moment. It currently involves TFS Team Build and Readify’s own TfsIntegrator for the continuous integration.
In one of my team build types, a custom msbuild task seemed to be ‘hanging’. So instead of waiting for it to timeout, I wrote this command-line utility [...]

TFS InstanceId, ServerMap.xml and havoc

Yesterday I had quite a big “oops” moment with a client that I’m working with. It involves communicating with two different TFS servers that have the same InstanceId GUID. The client has a production installation of TFS catering for around 200 developers. To help us test things like check-in policies, process templates and other addons [...]