Windows Presentation Foundation 4: New Features

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a tool for developing rich client applications. Its latest version released by Microsoft, WPF 4 has many new features and improvements over its predecessor. We will be discussing some of its new features that are available with Visual Studio 2010: MultiTouch: Microsoft Windows 7 OS brings latest multi touch capabilities, [...]

Microsoft Office in Urdu

Microsoft has now released an Urdu language pack for Microsoft Office 2010. If you are using Microsoft office 2010 than you can now use it in your national language for e

Retrieve list of checked out files from Team Foundation Server

There are times when you want to know who has not checked in their files. This will happen when migrating servers, removing a workspace of a non existent user etc. we can use the “tf” command line utility for retrieving all files that are checked out by a specific user.

Forcefully CheckIn a file that is CheckedOut by a different user–TF50605 –Team Foundation Server

  This is a big issue in Team Foundation Server (TFS), how to get rid of this? Sometime users(system crash, different domain, or users that are not in Active directoy) forget to CheckIn files that were cehecked out by them exclusively. The only solution to this problem is to restore the version that was Checked [...]

Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launched

Microsoft has launched its new Internet Explorer 9 for beta testing. Its interface looks good, Microsoft says it is more secure and stable from previous versions, And with more enhanced piracy settings it is now more safer. Additional/Download information can be obtained from following links: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ https://partner.microsoft.com/40146845

Migrating TFS 2005 projects to TFS 2008 system

Is there is a solution for importing existing projects from TFS 2005 server to a new TFS 2008 instance? Yes and this solution is without upgrading original TFS 2005 server to 2008. Solution: While installing TFS 2008 on new server, when wizard prompts you to input SQL server instance for storing data, you can point [...]

How to make XP look like Vista-Longhorn

So, how many of us are bored of looking at user interface of XP? Most of us, because Microsoft has only released 2-3 themes for XP from its launch. There are many different websites that allows to download themes for XP that are not developed by Microsoft. But by downloading them and adding them in [...]

TFS Migration Guidance Document

Team Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Team System Rangers started a project on CodePlex called TFS Integration Platform, to facilitate the development of tools that integrate TFS with other systems. Currently, this tool allow to enable TFS to integrate with other version control and work-item/bug tracking systems, but the eventual goal of this [...]

How to list checked out files — TFS 2008

What is the procedure to list all the files checked out from team foundation server for a particular project? Also needs to traverse directories and sub directories for listing all files that are checked out. There is a simple solution for this issue, provided through a command line tool of VS 2008. Open Visual Studio [...]

Disable UAC in Windows 7

User Access control was a new feature introduced in windows vista, but has become increasingly annoying due to extra security clicks on performing simple windows operations. Microsoft has changed User Access control features a little bit in Windows 7, and now it is some what better than its previous version of windows vista. Windows 7 [...]

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