You can logon to TFS automatically as another user by utilizing the stored passwords feature of Windows: Start Menu Search| type User Accounts Under tasks, click “Manage your network passwords” Add the TFS URL, username, and password I use a notebook computer in which I normally log in with a local account. Using a domain account on this notebook is a pain, because I am frequently on the road. The TFS server, however, requires a domain account. By using this technique, I am able to use TFS while...

Why would a company act against its own best interests? A while back, I purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 from the small business store. My first boot experience can only be described as a nightmare – many minutes of disk crunching craziness only to be left with a useless machine running 79 processes! Seventy-nine! I tried to shut the piece of junk down, but got tired of waiting – killed the power. All I had was the “Dell Recovery DVD”, which promised to restore all 79 processes in their over-bloated...

The Joel test is intended to gauge the quality of a software development organization. Ten years later, it is in need of an update. Below is a possible “New Joel Test”, updated for 2010. 1. Do you use source control? 1. Do you have a change management system? There needs to be a configuration management plan, control of assets beyond “source code”, branching and merging strategy (even if it’s not to branch), release stabilization and deployment plan, security permissions and roles, quality gates...

A little over a year ago, I started a project on Codeplex which contained managed implementations for Memory-Mapped Files, Mail slots and “Shared Memory”. The project is called: Inter-process (IPC) Communication Library. From CodePlex: IPCLibrary - Project Description A class library providing managed code implementation of mailslots, memory mapped files, and shared memory. The library includes the following public objects: Mailslot - Mailslot server implementation Mailslot Client - Mailslot client...