January 2006 Entries
After days on contemplation of whether to install the Team Foundation Server Beta on anything other than a VPC I decided to load it on my laptop. Apparently, the list of prerequisites seems quite… long. I had SQL server 2005 with Analysis and Reporting Services already installed when the Installer prompted an error saying I don’t meet the Pre-requisites. Out of the list that were missing on my laptop, WSPS, WSPS SP1, Reporting Service and Analysis Service were the primary items. WSPS...
While everyone seems to be talking about the Amazing and new Features of 2.0 like Membership, Generics, Code Snippets, Partial Classes... (the list continues), let me be the guy who blogs about a tiny little new function in 2.0 that will save a developer 1.5 minutes (give or take a minute) of development time and some 3 odd lines of code :). For A Recent Project I had to extract BLOBS stored in DB and write them in the file system. Turns out, there is a cool file system function which just lets you...