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Team Foundation Build and Web Deployment Projects
Last week I decided it was time to start generating regular builds of the web application my team is developing. We're using Team Foundation Server as our source control system, so it was a natural choice to use Team Foundation Build (TFB) to generate...
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11-07-2006 8:53 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Vista and Administrative Shares
I am used to remotely connecting to the file system on my computers via administrative shares. On previous versions of Windows, the hard drive volumes were automatically exposed as administrative shares - C$, D$ and so forth. The "$" at the end of a share...
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09-17-2006 1:53 PM
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Andre Perusse
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SQL Server 2005 Syntax Incompatible with SQL Server 2000
On a recent project we use SQL Server 2005 for development but the product officially supports installation on both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. During development we'll create tables in the database (using SQL 2005) using the GUI tools in...
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09-26-2007 7:22 PM
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Andre Perusse
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The Easy Way To Alternate Background Colours on a Repeater
The ASP.NET Repeater is one of my favourite controls because it provides total flexibility in the layout of your data. I'll often use it to generate a list of data similar to a DataGrid or DataList. However, if I want to alternate the background colour...
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06-18-2007 10:21 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Working with Active Directory in .NET 3.5
Many projects that I’ve worked on over the years have required some kind of interface with Active Directory. Back in the good ol’ ASP days, there was ADSI (Active Directory Services Interface), and .NET uses the System.DirectoryServices namespace to essentially...
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11-07-2008 4:22 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Vista RC1 - Not Quite There Yet
Microsoft recently released the so-called first "Release Candidate" for the next version of Windows, called "Vista." The geek that I am, I had downloaded previous Vista betas with the intention of installing and using them, but some how I never quite...
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09-11-2006 12:20 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Team Foundation Server - First Thoughts
The latest project I'm working on is using Visual Studio 2005, and the license we have allows us to use Team Foundation Server (TFS) Workgroup Edition. The Workgroup Edition is limited to 5 users, but is otherwise fully functional. Taking some advice...
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09-26-2006 7:24 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Comparing Team Build and Cruise Control
In recent months, I’ve had the opportunity to set up two build servers; one using Cruise Control.NET and the other using Team Build (part of Team Foundation Server). In this article, I’d like to chronicle the strengths and weaknesses I’ve found in both...
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03-09-2009 5:23 PM
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Andre Perusse
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HTC Touch As An iPhone Replacement
In January of this year (2008), I was getting the itch to buy something to replace both my cell phone and my Palm PDA (I used the Palm as my MP3 player). I wanted an all-in-one solution so I wouldn't have to carry around two pieces of technology with...
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08-17-2008 8:32 AM
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Andre Perusse
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Firefox, Internet Explorer, and JavaScript - Good Grief!
For most of my professional career, I've been developing corporate intranet applications. This means I've been pretty lucky as a web application developer when it comes to cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility because most users at the...
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08-23-2006 1:17 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Weather RADAR for Canada - a Yahoo Widget
I seem to be obsessed with the weather lately. So are a lot of other people judging from the amount of weather-related widgets and "parts" for public portals. One of my favourites was a Yahoo widget that showed the precipitation RADAR imagery from Environment...
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01-24-2007 10:06 PM
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Andre Perusse
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A Cool ASP.NET 2.0 Feature (Well, Almost)
Whenever I start a new web project, one of the first things I do is create a "Base" class for all my ASPX code-beside ( "code-behind" is so .NET 1.1 ) class declarations to inherit from. This makes it easy to have useful properties...
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06-17-2007 7:26 AM
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Andre Perusse
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Amiga OS is Still Alive - Who Knew?
I was rummaging through Digg this morning and I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw a headline on the front page that Amiga OS 4 had just been released. Ars Technica even posted a 6-page review of the new release. I haven't used an Amiga since 1997...
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01-22-2007 1:24 PM
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Andre Perusse
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On The Edge (and falling off a cliff)
UPDATE (Feb. 19, 2008): If you're too busy to read the book, take a look at this 8 minute video - it gives a pretty decent summary! Ars Technica recently began running a series on the history of the Amiga, my favourite computer of all time. From the...
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01-06-2008 1:38 PM
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Andre Perusse
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Windows Home Server Saves The Day!
I have never been very good about backing up my data at home, and I have occasionally been bitten by the odd hard drive failure. However, most of the data I lost to these infrequent failures wasn’t too terribly important. These days, however, I...
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07-16-2009 11:48 AM
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Andre Perusse
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