I've decided to move my blog to http://msmvps.com/blogs/molausson/.
Why? Mainly to have a good blog engine that's kept up to date (by someone else :-)). Msmvps.com is using the Community Server software and it lets me write posts from Word easily. For me it's really useful to have an offline tool for writing and I hope that means I can get around to write those posts that just seems to end up as good ideas...
If you're used to use ReSharper with Visual Studio 2008 and if you're now starting to test the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 then you'll probably want to check out the preview of ReSharper for 2010!
You can download the latest build of ReSharper for VS 2010 here.
Installation is straightforward, ReSharper uses the new extensibility model in VS2010;
Conchango has just make their first beta of their Scrum for Team System v3.0 process template available. This version targets the upcoming VSTS 2010 release so if you're looking at VSTS 2010 and Scrum is your friend then this should be something to check out. Key features of v3.0 includes (from their release post):
Some of the highlights of version 3:
More information on the beta program can be found here.
Later this summer (August 19 to be exact), my QWise colleague Magnus Juvas and I will do a "Sommarkollo" event at Microsoft in Stockholm. The topic is how we can effectively follow agile practices using VSTS as a tool and the agenda for this session is the following (in Swedish):
Vi går igenom och visar hur du som utvecklare kan jobba med agila arbetssätt som testdriven utveckling (TDD), continuous integration (CI) och Scrum på ett effektivt sätt med hjälp av Visual Studio Team System 2008. Fokus under den här halvdagen ligger på att demonstrera du praktiskt går tillväga för att komma igång med dessa arbetssätt.
Register to the event here.
A couple of weeks ago we held our first larger VSTS 2010 focused event. It was a challenge to present the new features in VSTS 2010... Even though we tried to be demo-intense it was hard to give the product justice in 40 minute sessions. There's just so much good stuff coming in 2010!! We'll definatly do more presentations on the coming features but here are the presentations from this event for a start:
The presentations from the event can be downloaded here.
The event was also recorded and is now available on Channel9:
We've also got a couple of workshops on VSTS 2010 coming up, for more information about take a look at our offerings here.
Now that Beta1 of Visual Studio Team System 2010 is out we can finally start talking and showing what great features that is coming down the line. To kick this off we're putting together a small "launch" event together with Microsoft Sweden.
The event takes place at Microsoft in Stockholm, monday June 15 between 14-17 and will have the content described below.
More details and registration is available here.
Agenda
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Introduktion till VSTS2010 |
En övergripande genomgång av nyheterna i VSTS2010 och en titt på de nya arkitekturverktygen |
14:00 |
Magnus Juvas, Qwise |
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Nyheter för utvecklare |
Här hittar vi nyheter som: • Historical debugging • Test impact analysis • Förbättrad profilering
Vi tar också en titt på nyheter i källkodshanteringen: • Förbättrat stöd för parallellutveckling • Byggautomatisering baserat på workflowteknik • Gated checkin och buddy builds |
14:40 |
Mathias Olausson, Qwise |
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Paus |
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15:20 |
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Nyheter i TFS |
Vi tittar närmare på: · Hierarkiska Work Items, och den nya Agila processmallen. · Rapporter i Excel. · Förenklad installation och uppgradering · Nya möjligheter till lastbalansering på applikationsservern och scale out på databassidan. · Administrationskonsollen · Nya webbaccess gränssnittet |
15:30 |
Magnus Timner, Qwise |
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De nya testverktygen |
En introduktion till: · Lab Management -hantering av virtuella testmiljöer · Det nya verktyget för automatiserade användargränssnittstester · Camano - det nya gränssnittet för testadministration |
16:10 |
Dag König, Microsoft |
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Slut |
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16:50 |
Ever wanted to use the TFS API to pull up a dialog to let a user browse the version control repository and select a file or a folder? Unfortunately it turns out there is no function to do so. Or atleast, no obvious way...
With pointers from Philip Kelley at Microsoft I learnt that inside the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls assembly there's a private class called DialogChooseItem that displays the following dialog:
In order to use that dialog we'll have to invoke by using .NET reflection. The constructor can take either just the TFS to connect to (start at the root of the version control tree) or the folder and file to navigate to when the dialog is shown.
The key code to invoke the dialog is the following (based on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and TFS 2008 SP1):
VersionControlServer
versionControlServer = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));
Assembly controlsAssembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls.ControlAddItemsExclude));
Type vcChooseItemDialogType = controlsAssembly.GetType("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls.DialogChooseItem");
ConstructorInfo ci = vcChooseItemDialogType.GetConstructor(
BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic, null, new Type[]
{ typeof(VersionControlServer)
}, null);
_chooseItemDialog = (Form)ci.Invoke(newobject[]
{ versionControlServer });
_chooseItemDialog.ShowDialog(); this.DialogResult = _chooseItemDialog.DialogResult;
To get to the selected item access the SelectedItem property (again using .NET reflection):
_selectItemProperty = vcChooseItemDialogType.GetProperty("SelectedItem",
BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
Item
selectedItem = (Item)_selectItemProperty.GetValue(_chooseItemDialog, null);
selectedItem.ServerItem;
That's it. With some simple .NET reflection magic we can now use the internal item brower dialog.
The complete sample can be downloaded here: ItemBrowser.zip (15,63 KB)
Disclamer: the DialogChooseItem is an internal unsupported implementation. It may change at any time so if you use it your're on your own.
When browsing through the documentation for Beta 1 on MSDN I found that there's also a nice training-kit available here.
The training-kit includes presentations, demos and labs on the following:
Unfortunately not so much content on VSTS, but still lots of other goodness... :-)
For Beta 1 of VSTS and TFS there's no local MSDN to install, instead the latest content can be found online at MSDN here.
There are plenty of new samples and walkthroughs to go through so it's well worth spending some time there to get into VS 2010.
Soma posted earlier today that beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework is available! It's going to be a great release for us working with VSTS!
So, time to explore the new bits. Here's some links I've found useful exploring the beta so far:
So, go get downloading! Beta 1 is now available on MSDN for subscribers.