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hosts file gets ignored by browser when behind proxy server
This issue took a long time for me to workaround. My browser works inside a corpnet proxy server. In...
Date: 12/19/2012
HTML5 video audio app deployed in intranet does not work in IE9
This is one painful issue that took me too long to figure out, what a waste of time! I built a...
Date: 09/13/2011
Solving error: The remote server returned an error: NotFound
I had a weird issue today. I am calling an external website using WebClient inside my WCF...
Date: 03/29/2011
No response from IIS server problem
I had deployed a silverlight application in my ___location machine and tried to access it from another...
Date: 10/17/2010
Hide, encrypt and protect files or folders
I was looking for a way to hide and encrypt folders. We search results were mostly pointing to...
Date: 10/29/2009
Silverlight 3 Error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2103 Category: InitializeError Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest
Everything was working, I did some refactoring and starting getting this error: Error: Unhandled...
Date: 10/20/2009
Error: Unable to start debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn't installed.
Silverlight was working great and one day I started getting this error on debugging: Unable to start...
Date: 10/13/2009
Back to blogging
So far I have been blogging purely on TFS in VSTS. It was great pleasure getting feedback from TFS...
Date: 10/13/2009
Powertool to easily create notification alerts for workitems, source control and build items
Last piece of powertool I worked on before leaving TFS is the integrated tool to easily create...
Date: 07/29/2008
When you have questions on WIT Extensibility or on my blog posts...
This week I am moving over to new team in Microsoft. I love workitemtracking and TFS, but I need to...
Date: 04/23/2008
Link Queries: How to use object model to build & run link queries in Rosario?
Many asked me how linking is exposed in our Rosario object model, how to construct, run and use the...
Date: 02/14/2008
Building custom controls in Team System Web Access
Team System Web Access 2008 powertool is released with TFS 2008 recently on Nov 19th (see here for...
Date: 11/20/2007
New powertools released with work item templates feature
Many customers have asked for templates functionality in work item to easily create workitems. Also,...
Date: 10/01/2007
Working with Rosario workitem links in object model
As you know, Rosario comes up with rich linking abilities for workitems and object model to support...
Date: 09/27/2007
Multivalue control is now available for download in codeplex
Many customers have asked for a control to select multiple values for a field, or to tag work item...
Date: 09/24/2007
Adding custom menu items to "Team" menu
Few customers wanted to add a menu to context menu of workitems in result list. It seems like a...
Date: 09/17/2007
Defining custom actions for state transitions
I heard this question few times: “I see the action named Microsoft.VSTS.Actions.Checkin to resolve...
Date: 09/17/2007
How to port Whidbey custom controls to Orcas
If you built a custom control in VS2005 (Whidbey) and deployed in user’s machines, what happens if...
Date: 08/23/2007
New links control features in Rosario
Rosario is next release of TFS after upcoming Orcas release. You can read a lot about Rosario from...
Date: 08/21/2007
New custom controls posted in codeplex project
Two custom controls are posted now in WIT custom controls codeplex project:...
Date: 08/17/2007
Nice trick to enforce certain rules on Area Path and Iteration Path
I have heard this feature request so many times: Requiring at least N levels of nodes for Area Path...
Date: 07/31/2007
Implementing custom validations in work item form
Recently few asking me about how to implement custom validation rules in a work item form. Our rules...
Date: 07/24/2007
Screen shot capture custom control
Mathias sent me link to the custom control he built to capture screenshots. He also created a...
Date: 07/23/2007
Another workitemtracking blog from my colleague
Alex has started blogging. He is my colleague specializing in work item tracking object model. Here...
Date: 06/05/2007
Orcas Beta1 client perf improvements & Custom control impact
In Orcas Beta1, a bunch of client UI performance improvements are made, especially to reduce form...
Date: 05/01/2007
Microsoft acquired TeamPlain web client for TFS - Get your free download today!
This is the news of the day and you might have seen it in other blogs & news posts. Brian's blog...
Date: 03/27/2007
Control specific hidden attributes to customize workitemform controls
A while back I made a post on Hidden attributes to control your work item form layout . Later I...
Date: 03/12/2007
Links to various TFS tools
I see many sites that list various TFS tools available for download, and this is one another attempt...
Date: 03/09/2007
live like (or google like) keyword search tool for workitems
It is popular request in WIT forums for a tool where keywords can be typed to search across all...
Date: 03/08/2007
Hidden attributes to control your work item form layout
Did you ever want to add two text fields on a tab vertically and wondered how to control their...
Date: 02/08/2007
Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Wed Feb 7th, 2007
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...
Date: 02/06/2007
Codeplex project for opensource generic custom controls
Do you want some complelling feature in work item form that is missing? Now you can suggest those...
Date: 11/16/2006
Showing work item form in your app
I hear this question often: How to show work item form in an app? Either an existing workitem, or a...
Date: 11/15/2006
Deploying custom controls that use teamfoundation assemblies
A question was raised in forums on how to deploy custom controls that refer to team foundation...
Date: 11/02/2006
Saving attachments in a workitem
This is one of pain points in V1 that we could not fix at end of project. To alleviate it, in the...
Date: 11/02/2006
Building custom popup controls
I heard more than few times question on how to build combobox like dropdown custom control where...
Date: 10/24/2006
Communicating between custom controls: Building parent/child controls
After release of custom controls feature in SP1 beta, few asked me how to build dynamic custom...
Date: 10/18/2006
Deleting workitems
This issue keeps coming up in forums and discussion lists. In V1, there isn't a way exposed to...
Date: 10/17/2006
Building a dialog to pick workitems
This post is a tip if you ever wanted to build a dialog in your app to pick workitem(s). You might...
Date: 10/16/2006
How to extend linking and workitem UI with custom link types
Overview: If you have used links in work item tracking, you might have wondered if you could add...
Date: 10/12/2006
How to use Custom Controls in Work Item Form
What is custom control feature? Now you can show your own controls in work item form. See for...
Date: 10/02/2006
SP1 beta and custom controls
Beta for SP1 is released and it comes with many exciting features for TFS. One of features requests...
Date: 09/26/2006
WorkItemTracking object model primer
For those who never used work item tracking object model and want to start: I saw a nice post that...
Date: 09/15/2006
Blog on work item server stuff
Amit is dev lead for workitemtracking server and he started his blog https://blogs.msdn.com/amitgh/...
Date: 08/25/2006
Learnings from VSIP TFS Dev Labs
Dev Labs (Developer Labs) are to meet our partners to answer their questions and to give...
Date: 08/09/2006
Programmatically getting workitems associated with given changsets - inverese queries
I was looking for a quick sample on linking queries, but was surprised that I couldn't find one....
Date: 08/07/2006
Article on Work Item Tracking v1 UI Extensibility in VSTS
I posted an article on WIT UI extensiblity at https://blogs.msdn.com/narend/articles/673183.aspx...
Date: 08/03/2006
Fun with live web search macros
I was playing with search macros in live.com and was amazed at what we can do with those. In past I...
Date: 08/02/2006
Work Item Tracking RSS Feed
John wrote a RSS feed sample a while back and I am posting it for him here. This is simlar to...
Date: 08/02/2006
How to configure WIT OM on a web application?
I see various questions on configuration difficulties in using Workitem OM in web application....
Date: 07/28/2006