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• Visual Studio Project MSBuild Import Error Fix

  Getting a 'Microsoft.CSharp.targets was not found' error in Visual Studio? Swap $(MSBuildToolsPath) for $(MSBuildBinPath) in your project file.

  Donn Felker – October 20, 2008

• GMail Tip – Finding Un-Read Email

  The fastest way to find unread email in Gmail: type label:unread into the search box and hit search, no digging through pages of mail.

  Donn Felker – October 17, 2008

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  TFS – Disabling Continuous Integration with NO-CI

  How to stop a TFS 2008 check-in from triggering an endless continuous integration build loop, using the ***NO_CI*** comment trick.

  Donn Felker – October 17, 2008

• Google IG Home Page – RSS Feed Issues

  Google IG's RSS reader silently stops updating when your feed has too many items, showing months-old posts. Keep feeds to 5-30 items to avoid it.

  Donn Felker – October 15, 2008

• The Importance of Incremental Builds

  TFS 2008's default 'Full Build' cleans and re-fetches everything on every check-in. Switching to IncrementalBuild cut our 20-minute build to 4.

  Donn Felker – October 15, 2008

• TFS Users & Groups with Active Directory Policies

  AD group changes can take up to 60 minutes to reach TFS security. Restart the TFS Task Scheduler service to force an immediate policy refresh.

  Donn Felker – October 14, 2008

• Windows se7en?

  Microsoft named its next OS Windows 7, so I gave it a better name: Windows se7en, an OS so gangster it'll cut you if you slip, son.

  Donn Felker – October 14, 2008

• Twin Cities Code Camp Presentation and Code

  Source code and slides from my Twin Cities Code Camp talk on wiring the Windows Workflow Rules Engine into a WCF service for flexible rules.

  Donn Felker – October 13, 2008

• Sleep Deprived WCF Error

  A WCF 'metadata unavailable' error, caused by a missing type in the namespace path or an enum using DataMemberAttribute instead of EnumMemberAttribute.

  Donn Felker – October 11, 2008

• Dependency Walker & SP1 TFS 2008 Upgrade Issues

  TFS 2008 SP1 upgrade fatal-erroring? A stray Dependency Replicator service was blocking IIS Admin - uninstall it, patch, then reinstall it.

  Donn Felker – October 10, 2008

• My Visual Studio Settings – My Altered Vibrant Ink Settings Setup

  My dark Visual Studio color scheme, an altered version of Vibrant Ink, as a downloadable vssettings file. Requires the Consolas font to look right.

  Donn Felker – October 7, 2008

• .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010

  .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 are already coming with ALM features like Test Impact View, gated check-in, and branch visualization tooling.

  Donn Felker – October 7, 2008