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Searching the Visual Studio Toolbox

  Ever want to add a control to the design surface, but you have so many controls that you have a difficult time finding them? I was shown this neat shortcut that has saved me a lot of time over the past few days. Click on the toolbox or use the Hotkey Alt+Ctrl+x Start typing the name of the control. The control will be highlighted If you have multiple controls that match the text, hit Tab to go to the next one. Simple and easy!

Querying TFS for Data

At my company we are in the process of migrating to a new TFS environment. As part of that we wanted to do some house cleaning and only migrate the projects that have been used recently. We’ve got a lot of clients, each with their own project that have been created over the past 3 years. We wanted an easy way to see what the latest activity was on the project. That will give us a good view into what projects can be archived and which ones need to be moved. I could have just gone to Source Control and did a “view history” for each project, but that would have taken a long time (and be very tedious). Instead I wrote a simple console app that digs into each project collection and project and exports some simple project/Check-in data to a CSV file. I can then open up the CSV in Excel and add other info like “Code Status”, and “Migration Status” easily. Here is the code I used. This is a pretty basic example and TFS provides a lot more, but it did what I needed it to. As I always say, Ke...

TFS 2010

This week Monday and Tuesday I'm spending some time at the Chicago Microsoft Technology Center with AngelaB and a lot of other great expert on TFS/VS 2010. We're working on upgrading TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. I have to say it’s much easier than I even imagined! MSFT was attempting to make the installation so easy that you don't have to read the installation documentation and they have succeeded! Everything is very intuitive. We even brought in our own process template and that was migrated w/o a problem.   Things I’m loving about TFS 2010: Hierarchical Work item types Administration Console Simplified DB model that makes projects much more portable Easy Upgrade/Import from 2008/2005 When it releases, it’s going to be part of the MSDN license Although TFS 2010 is still in beta, the head architect and I have decided that we'll be upgrading to TFS 2010 next week.