As I am sure you noticed there was an unfortunate clash of dates between Alt.net ‘in the North’ in Bradford and WebDD in Reading on the 18th of April. Well I see that WebDD over the weekend has published it’s agenda, opened registrations and is now full. So if you are disappointed that you can’t get a place for the WebDD event have you thought of trying an Open Spaces event like Alt....
As well as speaking on the GDR release of VSTS Database Edition at SQLbits this weekend I will also be at VBug Newcastle on the 22nd April.
Whilst preparing for my session at SQLBits next weekend I was re-watched Gert Drapers’ PDC session (TL45) where he used a command tool to deploy a database via a USB pen drive (about 30 minutes into the session). Now it seems that the createdeployment command line tool he used is not currently available outside Microsoft, but the same effect can be achieved use the VSDBCMD command. Step 1 - get the files onto the distribution device...
I have been away at the MVP summit and then on holiday for a couple of weeks. On this trip every hotel I stayed in had free internet, though often only wired. Seem many hotels have Wifi contracts with mobile phone companies and they are still charging for. So top tip make sure you have UTP cable in your bag. The ‘most interesting’ system I had was at a hotel in Whistler....
I did a post before going to the MVC summit called Do you need work item hierarchy in TFS? which mentioned the new tools from Notion for TFS. Well there are many ways to skin a cat, and also to produce a hierarchy of TFS work items. Also have a look at Artiso Workitem Manager. This product is interesting as it provides tools that work outside of Visual Studio to manage hierarchies of work items....