Today in Windows Programming
Yes, there is a Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer download page reminds us that, “[It] can be used as a standalone rich client for accessing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.”
My preference is to make a redundant (and potentially annoying) copy of my code and use all Team System stuff at the command line. My number-one reason for doing this is having more control over the directory structure of my projects.
“Buck Hodges: Power Toy: tfpt.exe”
Buck Hodges: “The Team Foundation PowerToys (TFPT) application provides extra functionality for use with the Team Foundation version control system.” Since my introduction to TFPT is through CodePlex.com, many of the benefits of this tool escape me (because of security limitations—for example the standard Destroy Command is not available to CodePlex.com users).
“Using Credential Management in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003”
The article “Using Credential Management in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003” and another one from pinvoke.net provide more OS-level tricks that experienced C++ programmers take for granted. We C# guys need all the unmanaged help we can get. These two articles take away any excuses for not knowing how to make that Windows Credentials prompt from popping up. Oh! Another article: “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Use CredUIPromptForCredentials as a Login Window”
“Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs”
news.samba.org: “Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.”
Kaxaml
“Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a ‘split view’ so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK).”