March 2008 - Posts
Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 Training Kit.
The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.
I always love free training material. Enjoy. Via Elegant Code.
After the nightmare that was the Team Foundation Server 2005 installation I was secretly dreading the 2008 upgrade. But somewhere in the back of my mind I was also cautiously optimistic as well. I mean could it possibly be any worse than the 2005 install? I did my homework pouring over the install instructions over the past few days. I wanted to be ready for anything. Fortunately for me, I didn't have much to worry about. Two resources that helped immeasurably were the Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Grant Holliday's Tips for upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS2008 post. I also got to give the guys over at Radio TFS an assist for their TFS 2008 What's New and Should You Upgrade show.
The only issue that we ran across was directly related to the installation instructions in the the Installation Guide. In the "Upgrading Your Team Foundation Server" page in the "Before You Upgrade Team Foundation Server" section step six says to "Uninstall Team Foundation Server". What it doesn't say is what applications consist of Team Foundation Sever. We later determined that this meant TFS 2005 Build and TFS 2005 Services and TFS 2005 Databases but initially we only uninstalled the build and services apps. Luckily, the System Health Check caught the problem and after uninstalling the databases app the install went fine.
Big ups to the TFS team for dramatically improving the install experience. What once took days now only takes hours.
I'm back. It's been a long time since my last post. Since then Alexa is 1.5 times older, I've been promoted at work, I've gotten more involved at church and I'm busier than ever. I did have a good logical reason why I stopped blogging but I'm going to save that for later. I've also been able to move the blog from .Text to Community Server thanks to
Kevin Harder and his
migration tool. I was able to move web hosts as well. I'm still going to keep the personal stuff on
Jorriss.com and the technical stuff at
Jorriss.net. The design of the blogs will also be changing over the next few months. Frankly, I have no idea what it's going to look like. Maybe J can help. Anyways brace yourself kids...I'm back.