Only a genuine GEEK can enjoy reading the history of Visual Studio, but it was really fun (to me)! Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/tags/History+of+Visual+Studio/default.aspx& … more

We are migrating part of our infrastructure to Windows Server 2008 R2, and while preparing a DEMO environment we got bitten by this problem. In R2 (and Windows 7) security is a little tigher and NTLM … more

If you fall into the same problem I did (WebTests project not being converted to the new VS2010 format) I found a workaround. I just removed the offending projects the then added back to the solution … more

Yesterday I did my first test migrating one of our our rather complex VS2008 solutions to VS2010 (and TFS 2010). The solution and projects upgrade went generally well, I only had a few minor things … more

For those planning to upgrade from TFS 2008 (as we do) Bryan Krieger posted a nice article commenting the options and a high level overview of the process. Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/ … more

The latest version of Retina.NETm the open source ORM published on CodePlex has now explicit support for MS SQL 2008. The new DataStore now supports the new data types (DATETIME2, TIME, DATE, … more

I have written a white paper on WCF extensibility and I would like to share it with the community so I have attached a copy to this post in Word 2003 format.  Enjoy! Andrés G … more

 If you have big solutions with hundreds of projects and hundred of thoudsands lines of code, you know that by default compiling in the build server takes some time. One of the things that take … more