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November 2009 - Posts

Build Process Templates

Making a build script do exactly what you want is easier with 2010? When setting up a build there has always been a separation of concerns. The Build Definition The Build Process Creating the build definition is much like you are use to in 2008. Right Read More...

Conflict Resolution in TFS 2010

The conflict resolution in previous versions of VSTS/TFS worked ok, but did not have the best user experience for the developer. When a conflict was detected on check in a modal dialogue was dispatched and the developer could resolve the conflicts from Read More...

Test Driven Development with VS 2010

Test Driven Development proposes you should: write the test, watch it fail, write the code, run the test to see it pass, refactor your code. This is difficult when your code won’t compile because you haven’t created the method or even the class you are Read More...

Reference Highlighting

I’m going to like the new Reference Highlighting in the 2010 code editor. This is like an in place version of the find all references feature. To enable/disable this feature: For C# Go to   Tools > Options >Text Editor > C# > Advanced Read More...

Gated Check-in Build Trigger

VS 2010 has a new feature that allows a developer to validate that their code change will merge and successfully build with the current code base on the server before ever checking it in. It’s called the gated Check-in. How it works Create a build type Read More...