Adam Singer

Veni, vidi, expertus sum- I came, I saw, I tested

Notable

After a bit of revising and internal processing, I'm the proud author of two TechNotes! Both are...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2005

Looking at the world through rose-colored versionspecs

James' post on the DateTime versionspec reminded me that I wanted to post a brief summary of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/28/2005

Twelve Step Programs

Over the past few weeks, I've set up several Visual Studio Team Foundation Servers. Granted, this is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/14/2005

My voice is my passport

Locks vs. Permissions Visual Studio's Team Foundation Version Control has a very powerful access...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2005

It's always darkest...

...just before it goes pitch black. These past three weeks, the Visual Studio Team Foundation...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2005

Acme Code Corp.

One of the major missing features in the 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Framework was generics (similar to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2005

The Origin of the Specs

According to Wikipedia, there are over 800,000 species of insect, only 82,000 of which are "true...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2005

Because it is not the sky

We're testing the Japanese Beta3 version of Visual Studio Team System's Team Foundation Server. Of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2005

Microsoft Palabra

Did you know that Microsoft Word 2003 has translation built in? Type in a sentence and highlight it....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/20/2005

Cause and effect

Recently, Keith Hill asked which version control commands require a checkin to complete. As Keith,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/05/2005

Snip/Cut: Extracting and implanting data

To misquote Kermit the Frog, "Time's fun when you're catching flies and other bugs." It's been...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/26/2005

Working within the System

I've just heard that there's a chat in a little under three hours on "Learning Visual Studio Team...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2005

Extra! Extra! Get the latest news!

Every now and again, some feature or other of our source control code strikes me in a "wow, that's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/14/2005

Finding the [elided] in [elided] [elided]

A little bit back, Keith Hill posted in the TFS Forum about seeing "..." in Source Control...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/09/2005

/map marks the spot

Now that you've had a bit of time to play around with Beta 2, I'm curious what people think of the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/10/2005

Workspace: the final frontier

We've been getting some feedback that the "workspace" concept isn't entirely clear. In my post on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/05/2005

Remapping in style

James introduced me to a neat trick recently with working folders. Oftentimes, I create a workspace...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/28/2005

Rounding the Baselines

Bruce from GrapeCity Inc. asks: When reading something about version control I learn a term...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2005

Editorial privileges

A follow-up question from my most recent post- How often do you think you'll want to edit the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/15/2005

Alice in changesets

In our last episode, we discussed the checkin process. Of course, checking in changes isn't the end...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2005

Mmmm... tastes like checkin

I have a few further questions about your Team System usage for those of you playing around with the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2005

Welcome to the Hotel Team Foundation

So, this has been awhile coming. Let's blame that on the combination of 2 zillion screenshots and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/25/2005

Weapon of Choice

Here's yet another question for anyone out there using the December CTP. When you want to use...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/14/2005

Stream of conscience

A friend out in Redmond recently passed along this link. Stan Zdonik was my advisor up at Brown, and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/27/2005

The Changeset at the Pend of the Universe

Reading Jason’s post on lock types got me thinking about the general concept of pending...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/27/2005

Team System: Behind the curtain

Yesterday evening, I joined the Triangle .NET Users Group for their monthly general meeting. The...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/13/2005

The Command Line, the File, and the Wardrobe

Recently, I’ve been working with a command file parsing feature of the Version Control command...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/08/2004

Locking

I'd like to give you a brief overview of locking functionality from within the Team Foundation...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2004

Hello, world

My name is Adam Singer, and I recently moved to the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina. I've...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/10/2004

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