Monday, October 21, 2013

Windows 8.1 Install: Don't panic on the first screen

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So I am creating my standard development VM's for Windows 8.1 (Visual Studio 2013 and SQL Server 2012)  and the first screen that shows ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

If it's an MSDN licensed Windows 8 -- no auto upgrade to Windows 8.1

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I upgraded to Windows 8 immediately when it was released. The reason was simple -- Windows 8 64-bit supports Hyper-V with 64-bit VMs. As a s...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

PowerShell: Preventing Arrays from Acting like Scalars

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PowerShell like many scripting languages plays fast and loose with types. When dealing with arrays, this can be problematic because PowerSh...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Visual Studio Online (cloud-hosted TFS) for non-Visual Studio Developers

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Update (September 18, 2014): the link to Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 RC in this post was updated to reference the product...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Signing up for Visual Studio Online (cloud-based Team Foundation Server)

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October 3, 2014: updated to reflect Microsoft's rebranding and subsequently changing the name of Hosted TFS to Visual Studio Online. Add...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Affordable Windows Phone 8 development (the Nokia Lumia 521)

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The goal here is to develop software for Windows Phone 8 and not pay thousands of dollars a year. There is a cost to getting started in Wind...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Visual Studio Online (cloud based TFS): Getting multiple labels using TF GET (without deleting the files associated with the previous TF GET)

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This article presents how to pull source code from TFS using the TF utility. Pulling source code in this manner is the first step in automat...