december 2006 - Posts
Don't get me wrong it is cool that VS2005 SP1 is released, but during my installation it was eating diskspace and it *LOVES* memory:
After my recent install of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 I continued using the plugins in Excel and Project 2003 to access my work items in TFS. Unfortunately I am running into some nasty issues that probably have to do with my side-by-side installation of both Office 2003 and Office 2007. I am still using Office 2003 for my main tasks, still have to get used to the new ribbons. But after the install of SP1 I cannot work in Excel and Project 2003 anymore. A couple of issues I am having are in Excel:
TF84032: Team Foundation could not insert the work item list because there is data in the worksheet
that cannot be moved. Select a location where there is enough space to insert the list.
In an EMPTY excel!
And in Project 2003:
Publishing a simple task (just one) gives: "Cannot complete the operation. An unexpected error occurred"
In Excel 2007 it is working as expected, in Project 2007 it gives the same error as in Project 2003.
One of my colleagues doesn't have Office 2007 installed, but does have VS 2005 SP1 installed. His Office 2003 plugins for VSTS are working as expected....
UPDATE: It appears this is a bug in the process template I am using, specifically in the project mapping file. See my new post for more clarification.
These guys are fun, come and see Doug, Don, Steve and some others appear on this channel 9 movie.
Curious what this BPEL stuff is going to be, that they talk about around 27:57.
Wowsers, my first book is about to be released! The cover and index are now done, here some quick pictures from the cover and index:
Amit has the full index up on his blog.
We have a great foreword by Thom Robbins, Director .NET Platform Marketing @ Microsoft.
Based on a question on our internal Avanade communities I fixed one small glitch in one of my chapters, which was quite embarassing (some leftover sample code based on one of the CTPs was still there!)
It is now really out of our hands and the book should hit the shelves in january next year (the 22nd is said to be the date)!
This is great stuff! I got this one via Amit:
The .NET CF team is working to port WCF to the compact framework and as you can see below it will support a subset of the WCF. You can get more details on this post by Roman, though there are more WCF details on that and not as much as the WCF "Compact Edition", it is still quite exciting. Who knows, maybe the next edition of the book can include this.
