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Event: Team Foundation Server 2010 Overview with SCRUM
Our previous Columbus TFS Event had such a wonderful turnout and response that we’ve decided to go on the road to Kentucky in a few weeks. I’m happy to have Dave Dotterer of Kizan as my partner in crime. Dave is a great TFS resource and it’ll be awesome to have his insight for…
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Where did Alt.Net go?
These last few weeks have seen a flurry of emotions from the.Net community. It appears that a few product releases and a presumptive priority change for IronRuby have caused the world to come crashing down and passengers of the.Net ship to jump overboard. I’m glad I don’t work…
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Bonus Features and The Art of Sustainable Pace
Engaged, passionate team members are the base of any great Scrum team or any Agile team for that matter. Without passion and without engagement, quality is a burden and continual team introspection demands dragging lumber up hill. There is a downside to passion at times and it’s…
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Advanced WPF ListBox Scenario: Representing and Selecting an XML Hierarchy
I’ve never found a use for the XmlDataProvider natively in Xaml for a shipping app, but today a @malevy had a situation that sounded interesting. He has an Xml document structured as follows: He wanted to be able to represent this hierarchy in a ListBox, but actually select from…
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ReSharper Test Runner and MSTest Projects
One of my biggest irritants with the Unit Testing ecosystem is that each runner does things a little different. Gallio has helped solve this to some extent, but even that hasn’t solved all the problems that come with content or resource file deployments, coverage settings, etc.…
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Event: TFS 2010 Overview, Scrum integration: June 22-23
[Updated: An offline, PDF agenda is available [here](http://samples.cromwellhaus.com/OH SDLC2010 Agenda Ver 1.pdf)] Around a month from now Alexei Govorine of Quick Solutions and I will be leading a free, two day event diving into Team Foundation Server 2010 and its uses within a…
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SketchFlow: From Concept to Production
I had a great time in Frankfort, KY yesterday. We had a great turnout for the Expression SketchFlow: From Concept to Production session. It is incredibly encouraging to see so many interested in building great, well designed apps for all industries and clients (even your LOB…
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Kentucky Briefings April 15th and 22nd
Along with a great cast of MS partners, evangelists, specialists and more I will be bringing Sketchflow to the Frankfort, KY area Thursday, April 15th. This will be Session I with Session II scheduled for April 22nd. You can learn about everything from Forefront Suite to…
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Grouping is crazy easy in WPF
Lots of people struggle with grouping data and when they do, the brut force method normally takes over and we start creating some crazy super structure to organize data and then do something like put a List inside of a List or a Grid inside of a list. Just think of how many times…
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Source Control Smackdown 2009
With all the hubbub around Git, TFS 2010, and others over the last year or so, the Dayton.Net Developers Group is hosting a panel event this Wednesday, December 9th, titled Source Control Smackdown 2009. I have been lucky enough to be selected to represent TFS in a clash against…