Monthly Archives: June 2007

Count those cores

This is certainly the most number of cores I’ve ever played with. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I get to see 16 graphs squished in here.

Why OzTFS.com succeeded

I came across this post by Simon Guest (the only guy able to logon as ‘guest’ at Microsoft) on Why Online Communities Fail.
He states three reasons for failure:

Purpose – “This online community will be for [audience] to [action] in order to reach [goal with incentive].”
Seeding – The initial “drop” of information that will attract people
Barrier [...]

Team System product team chat

Now with Australia-friendly times! 9AM Wednesday 4th.
Come chat with the Team System product team – July 3rd
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what’s new in the upcoming Orcas CTP.
There [...]

TFS. .NET and paths longer than 260 characters

Have you ever wondered why Team Build doesn’t support working folders with paths longer than 260 characters (MAX_PATH)?
Basically, the .NET APIs don’t support it because the Windows APIs don’t support it.
But it’s not as clear-cut as that. The Windows APIs support a workaround by prefixing the file name with “\\?\” – but .NET doesn’t support [...]