When you’ve to use TFS, then there are moments when you’re missing some features in the UI tools in Visual Studio. In those situations the console tool tf.exe is very useful. In this short blog post I summarized the commands I used the most. Update an old version of a branch It could happen, that the production branch or an older feature branch isn’t up-to-date, because somebody forgot one or several merges from the main branch. To fix that, there…
I do a lot of trainings and courses in the company where I work currently. And I was also in a lot of courses too. But I think, that those courses or trainings don’t work really. The reason, why is that they are just so called "sheep dips". Sheep dip training doesn’t work The first time when I heard the expression "sheep dip" was in the excellent book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning". It means a training where a lot of…
Usually I don’t blog here about personal topics. But as some friends know, I was some days ago in the united states – to be more precise, at the west coast. I visited the cities San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I was a great trip and I enjoyed the cities, the landscape (Grand Canyon) and a lot more. To be honest, one of the most things which impressed me on the trip was the service and customer orientation…
Yes, I know, the DataSet isn’t the leading edge technology, but as the company where I work currently, there are several companies who use DataSet as data access technology. Recently, I had to migrate the DataSet subclasses of the framework of my current employer to .NET 4.0 and add LINQ support. After this migration I made some unit tests and I found a surprising fact: If you using LINQ with a DataSet, then you have to handle deleted rows, which…
During a Lunch event organized by the .NET Usergroup Bern at the 7 December 2011 in Bern I will speak about the following question: Is Software design overrated? Yes, I know, it’s provocative. And obviously wrong. Really? I’m not so sure. After 10 years as software engineer and some years as software architect I saw too often no design, just a transformation from requirements directly in code. And what is the problem with that? Interested? So come to my talk,…