D. Omar Villarreal

Entity Framework Virtual Brown Bag Series

2009-07-16T00:35:20-05:00:00

Hosted by the Dallas .NET Users Group, the first of a series 30-minute of Entity Framework Webcasts will take place Friday July 17th, at 12:15 PM Central Time. Use the following link to register:

http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=139637

Dallas/Fort Worth Technical Community Leaders

2009-07-06T22:32:08-05:00:00

Recent events directly related to the Dallas Tech Fest led me to discover that there is not one place to find out about all the developer communities in the Dallas Fort Worth area, that prompted me to create this post, which I intend to update as I get additional information.

Dallas .NET Users Group
D. Omar Villarreal
http://TeamSystemRocks.com/blogs/omarv

Dallas Visual Studio Team System Users Group
D. Omar Villarreal
http://TeamSystemRocks.com/blogs/omarv

Dallas ColdFusion Users Group
Dave Shuck
www.daveshuck.com
www.twitter.com/dshuck
www.facebook.com/dshuck

Java MUG (Metroplex Users Group)
Erik Weiburst
http://erik.weibust.net
http://twitter.com/erikweibust
http://facebook.com/erikweibust

…and in case I get behind on emails and do not update this post right away when I receive changes for it :-), you can always find up-to-date information about .NET related technologies’ user groups at http://ugss.codezone.com.

Error 1330 Installing Visual Studio 2010

2009-05-20T02:11:26-05:00:00

This is apparently a known issue and I seem to remember I saw this issue a long time ago. I was installing VSTS 2010 Beta 1 on a VPC (yes, VPC, not Hyper-V) and I mounted the VSTS image (.iso) file on the Virtual PC for it to appear as if the actual disc was inserted, then as you can see on the screenshot below, I got Error 1330 a couple of minutes into the installation.

The solution was to not install directly from the disc. I opened the contents of the .iso file using WIndows Explorer in the VPC and copied all the files to a local folder, then I ran setup.exe from that folder on C: and it worked just fine. This seems to be a know issue though: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-workaround-error-1330-during-visual-studio-2008-installation.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 Forums available on MSDN

2009-05-19T11:42:37-05:00:00

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was made available to MSDN subscribers to download yesterday and will be available to the non-subscribers (general public) tomorrow. There are many cool new features in the different team editions of Visual Studio. If you are looking at the tools and have any questions (or answers) be sure to visit the Visual Studio 2010 forums on MSDN, you should get answers to your questions very quickly there:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vstsprerelease

TFS 2010 Beta 1 Installation Bug

2009-05-19T01:32:49-05:00:00

There is a bug in the TFS 2010 Beta 1 installation, it is described in section 1.3.4 of the Readme file but since a lot of us go read that file after installation is complete I figured the more blog posts exist about the issue the more people will know about it and avoid it. But I will not get into details or reinvent the wheel, the information is in the Readme and in this post from Buck Hodges: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2009/05/18/tfs-2010-beta-1-don-t-run-initial-configuration-from-the-administration-console-mmc.aspx

I just finished downloading the VSTS 2010 Beta 1 install bits, now…

2009-05-19T01:25:08-05:00:00

… off to create a new VPC for it and prepare to do some demos at the Dallas VSTS UG this Wednesday evening:

http://www.DallasVsts.com

http://dallasvstsug.ning.com

A big THANK YOU!!

2009-05-03T12:36:14-05:00:00

I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to my participation in the Bike MS event, a 2-day/150-mile fundraising bicycle ride, I want to thank those who made me aware of the event, those who have contributed with my fundraising for the National MS Society, and John Burns for being my training partner and for waiting for me at the training rides and the day of the event; as well as all volunteers and sponsors for making it all possible.

Here is an update for everyone:

The second day of the event was cancelled for everyone's safety based on the weather forecast, but I pedaled for 83.33 miles (according to my bike's computer) on day 1 and it really was the most rewarding and unforgettable journey that I have experienced. I did get about 15 minutes of pouring rain right before and right after the Finish Line and it felt great. Team Notion took off at about 7:30 AM, Chris and Trent finished before it started raining, at about 1:30 PM (they cheated, they did not stop for lunch) John got there at about 2:05 and I got there at 2:15 PM. That made me feel really good, my expectations were that I was not going to see the finish line until 3:30 or 4:00 PM. The longest I had been on my bike for was 52 miles. a week before the event and had been pushing my limits that day so I prepared myself mentally all week to not feel bad about getting on one of the sag wagons when I got tired. But riding along all those awesome people, passing a few of them and then seeing them pass me again a few minutes later (over and over) was very motivating. Feeling strong and with energy at some of the rest stops was very motivating and fulfilling as well, I skipped some of the rest stops. Today, I feel very good, after sleeping 11.5 hours I am sure I could have gone for day 2, I will find out next time.

Here is a picture John and I got taken at the last rest stop (mile 71 I think), it was sponsored by Frito Lay:

Again, I want to thank everyone who has made a donation to my ride, I have not yet met my goal so please feel free to help me out with your donation to the National MS Society [ it is tax deductible! :-) ], at the time of this writing I only need $140 Dollars to meet my goal.

Trying out MS Tag

2009-01-29T02:39:33-06:00:00

I hope it takes off. I really want a way to use my phone to scan items barcodes (in today's lingo).

Woohoo!! It worked! The above tag points to my TSRocks blog. I just scanned it with my phone after I pasted it in this article using Live Writer and my mobile IE went to my blog. Check out MS Tag.

MDC Dallas Pictures

2009-01-29T02:39:04-06:00:00

Thanks to Giovanni Gallucci for taking and posting the pictures: http://flickr.com/photos/theagencyblog/sets/72157612975579499/

VSTS 2010 VPC info from my Dallas MSDN Developers Conference (MDC) talk on VSTS2010

2009-01-28T12:57:19-06:00:00

Several people were asking me at the end of my session how they could start evaluating VSTS 2010 and I promised to post the information here, so here it is...

I created a couple of tinyurl.com links for the people that wanted to write it down while they were there:

http://tinyurl.com/MDCVsts2010VPC (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en)

- and -

http://tinyurl.com/MDCVsts2010VPC2 (http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2008/10/27/visual-studio-2010-ctp-vpc-dealing-with-activation-messages.aspx)

Those links refer to the VPC download and a blog post from Brian Keller about dealing with software activation messages you will get while running the VPC. But in addition to reading that blog post you should also read Grant Holiday's post because of the VPC also expires: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/12/10/visual-studio-2010-ctp-vpc-will-expire-jan-1-2009.aspx and you will need to disable the time synchronization setting.

Also, there were a few people in my talk had not seen visual-studio consistently before so I figured I would have a link to some upcoming webcasts that you can look at to get familiar with the functionality of visual studio team system:

https://www.clicktoattend.com/search.aspx?partner=search&range=Next%206%20Months&partnerid=5245&partnername=Notion%20Solutions,%20Inc.&seminar=1&webcast=1