Archive for the "VSTS 2008" category

 

Associate XSD to XML file to enable IntelliSense

 
Overview We .Net developers use IntelliSense extensively in our everyone work. I am happy using IntelliSense for XML files like web.config file. Then one day I come across a XML file with schema not available out-of-the-box from VS (think about NHibernate hbm files). How can I use IntelliSense with it? Reference XML [...]

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ASP.NET User Control – Part 1

 
Overview User Control is quite useful in creating a customized control which can be reused throughout pages. Instead of creating a custom server control, developers can create user control which (in my opinion) is easier to create and modify the control layout. In this part, I will talk about how to create a [...]

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Silverlight + SharePoint integration (Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint)

 
Overview Microsoft provides a Blueprint for integrating Silverlight 2 applications with SharePoint sites. The Blueprint includes guides to configure SharePoint runtime environment for hosting Silverlight 2 application, as well as VS 2008 development environment for building Silverlight 2 wrapper webparts. Besides, 5 examples application are included in the Blueprint. Reference Silverlight Blueprint [...]

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Using CopySourceAsHtml in VS 2008

 
Overview CopySourceAsHtml (CSAH) is a very useful tools for us "Programming Oriented Blogger". But after I switched to VS 2008, I soon found that there is no CSAH officially supporting it. Luckily with a little bit of googling, I was able to find a couple of Blogs of how to use CSAH in VS [...]

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Changing the default browser used in VS 2005/2008

 
Overview I always use Firefox except browsing SharePoint sites (or sites with Active-X). However when I was debugging my projects with VS 2005/2008, I don’t want it to use Firefox to open aspx pages. With a little bit of searching, I found below page showing how to set default aspx browser in VS (it [...]

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How to: Set Team Foundation Server Administrator Permissions

 
Overview Below MSDN post shows the steps to grant sufficient privileges to a new Team Foundation Server Administrator. Reference How to: Set Team Foundation Server Administrator Permissions

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Hands-Free TFS 2008 Install

 
Overview Installing VSTS Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 is way more than just run "setup.exe" and keep clicking "Next". Actually if you have all the prerequisites ready then the installation is simple, but usually you have to prepare all the prerequisites by yourselves. I found two post by Grant Holliday and William Bartholomew [...]

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