Joel From Canada

In one of my last posts I made a comment about working with Beta products.  Rob Caron reminded me that the Beta 1 refresh of Team System is in fact not a Beta release and that the Beta will actually be out early next year.  Excellent point!

VSTS’s more robust source control solution seems nice…. I’ve already customized it a bit to require additional information to be recorded when you attempt to check something in.  What I can’t figure out, however, is how to open a solution from source control… With VS.NET 2005 you simply go “Open from Source Control” under File ->Source Control.   That’s not there in VS.NET 2005.  If you go to Open a project – you can see that there is now a Microsoft Source Safe option, but when you go and add a new VSS Database – you can’t specify a TS database.  Not sure if I’m missing something obvious.

Well, I think I’ve managed to successfully install VSTS.  I have it configured on three different VPC’s – one to house SQL, on to be my application server, and one to act as my client.  Realistically, I guess I could have used only 2 VPC’s and configured the my host machine with VS.NET + the TS features – but I wanted to self contain everything as much as possible.   I made a back up of my freshly installed images expecting that I’ll be reverting to its successful installation point at some time in the future.

Hi.  My Name is Joel and I have a problem – I’m addicted to connectivity.  And I’m ashamed.

I know I’m a bit slow blogging this as I try never to blog during the summer months but the Enterprise Development Application Framework (EDAF)  - previously known as Shadowfax - is out… Essentially EDAF helps provide a foundation for you to build good “loosely coupled”, “distributed”, “service based” <insert any other wide range of today’s hot tech terms here/> applications.

The Winnipeg.NET Users Group has finally convinced an INETA speaker to come to Winnipeg – funny how they waited until summer to come.  Turns out it’s my Brazil buddy Jason Beres (remember Jason – what happens in Brazil stays in Brazil dude).  Jason was a co-judge for Imagine Cup representing the USA and I’m pumped to be able to see him again so soon.

This past weekend I returned from Imagine Cup 2004 in Brazil.  I was honored to be asked to represent Canada as a judge for the event – and of course I couldn’t refuse a free trip to Brazil.  Truthfully, I didn’t hear much about Imagine Cup previously – and I was very surprised to see how big and how fundamentally important this event is.