Rants of a Hippie Coder
My team is hiring!
We're looking for a strong software developer in the Raleigh/Durham, NC area. The job posting hasn't...
Author: hippietim Date: 05/08/2008
Fix for Reports showing up properly on WSS 2.0 for Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2
If you are experiencing problems with viewing TFS reports on a WSS 2.0 server and the message is...
Author: hippietim Date: 07/31/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 Has Shipped!!!
Check it out! https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx This is a particularly exciting...
Author: hippietim Date: 07/26/2007
Workflow for Team Foundation?
We have a number of scenarios we'd like to enable in future releases of Visual Studio Team...
Author: hippietim Date: 04/07/2006
Will Code For Food
This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal several years ago. It's come up from...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/29/2006
How to get the active Team Foundation Server and Project from an Add-In
Ed Hintz posted "How to Write a Team Foundation Version Control Add-in for Visual Studio" which is a...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/29/2006
The best thing you can get for your iPod
The Bose SoundDock. Really. It is way cool. It is way expensive too but given the simplicity,...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/28/2006
Flashing Dialogboxes
This example demonstrates how to flash a dialog in the taskbar after performing a long running...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/28/2006
Robin Trower is touring the US again!!!
I'm a huge Robin Trower fan but haven't seen him live in many years mostly because he hasn't toured...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/27/2006
Overcoming a .NET ListView CheckBoxes quirk
In the Visual Studio Team Foundation version control UI, we display your pending changes in a...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/27/2006
Give the .NET loader a hand - how to load assemblies from VS PrivateAssemblies
This program demonstrates how to use the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event to help the .NET loader get...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/24/2006
No more Chicken Little
Heh.
Author: hippietim Date: 03/23/2006
WinForms ListView Performance - ListView collections
The WinForms ListView has a few very handy collections - CheckedItems and CheckedIndices....
Author: hippietim Date: 03/21/2006
WinForms ListView Performance - Initializing checked states
CheckBoxes in a WinForms ListView are of course a bit simpler to use than dealing the underlying...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/20/2006
WinForms ListView Performance
While working on improving the performance of the version control UI for Visual Studio Team...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/20/2006
Team Foundation Power Toy TFPT Review
I added the Review command to TFPT back in August as a simple way to do a code review of files in...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/20/2006
A couple helpful Team Foundation registry settings
Here's a couple of registry options that never made it into the UI anywhere that some of you may...
Author: hippietim Date: 03/14/2006
Do you ever have one of those days?
Actually in this case it'd be one of those weekends. I was working this weekend (at home...
Author: hippietim Date: 02/07/2005
Stupid browser drag/drop tricks
At one point folks got carried away with drag and drop. For example: The system menu icon is a drag...
Author: hippietim Date: 02/03/2005
I hate magic
C++ magic in particular. What's wrong with this code?#define BLANK_IF_NULL(s) ((s) ? (s) :...
Author: hippietim Date: 02/03/2005