TFS allows you to update work items in bulk by applying a template to them. Here’s how: Install the TFS Power Tools Right click on Work Item Templates in Team Explorer and select New Template
Run a TFS query to find the AreaId and IterationId that you don’t want to allow. In my case it was 489 for both Area and Iteration 0.1) Create a new query: 0.2) Select the AreaId and IterationId co
I had to change TFS Iterations and didn’t want to break all existing queries. I also didn’t want to update them all manually. Thanks to Tarun Arora for a good starting point: http://geekswithblogs.net
It took me forever to figure out how to turn off my Sony IC Recorder (ICD-SX46) 1. Slide the Hold slider to the hold position. 2. Hold down the “Stop” button. That’s it. Really simple. Really undiscov
I just removed the word “test” from all of our test method names. Here’s how I did it: Find what: public void {.*}test Replace with: public void \1
Canon’s RAW codec does not support Windows Explorer thumbnail integration on x64 machines. 1. Install Windows Live Photo Gallery http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other 2. In Windo
For Win7 Click on the Start Button Type “clear” Click “Clear ClearType text” Go through the Wizard. Helped me tremendously. Jon
You need to use the SetValue method of the DependencyObject class… I’ll let the code speak for itself: <UserControl x:Class="SetGridProgrammatically.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.co
It’s really simple to Navigate to another page in Windows Phone 7, but it took me a few to figure it out. Where Page1.xaml is in the root of the app: NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/Page1.xaml",
Sometimes you click “Ignore” by mistake. “Ignore” is just a rule that auto sends the thread to Deleted Items. So, just find the item in deleted items, select it and click the “Ignore” button again.
I spent about 20 mins with ATT technical support today trying to figure out how to send a Text from their website. Apparently they did some website updates and the “Send Text Message” option is buried
My beloved Microsoft Trackball Explorer mouse died recently and I was amazed to find that the price increased from about $70 to $600 (new) and $190 (used). I like the mouse, but not enough to shell ou
Sometimes you want a key command (keycommand) that works across all of your Windows Desktop. For example, let’s say that you write a lot of email and you want to be able to pop open Gmail’s compose pa
For some reason this feature is hidden in Outlook 2010. Click the Office Button in the upper left hand corner. [ Click “Open” and then “Import” [ Import and Export Wizard Dialog Appears. Select “
Here’s how to highlight rows based on a cell value in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. Reference this page for previous versions of Excel Select the table you want to apply the custom formatting to [ Go
Creating a new category in Outlook isn’t very intuitive. Right click on the item you want to categorize Select “Categorize” Select “All Categories” Click the “New…” button Enter the Name of
It’s simple. Use the import function. Open the destination database. Right click in the table pane. Select Import. Choose the origination database. Choose the tables you want to import. Select to co
ASP.NET doesn’t ship with Membership, Profile, Role or Personalization providers out of the box. Imar Spaanjaars has a great article on how to setup a site using the “Sample Access Providers” provided
I’m creating an app and need the same data set for two tree views. Nodes.AddRange only works with a TreeNode[] and the TreeNodeCollection is read-only and doesn’t have a ctor. I first tried something
It’s usually a good idea to seperate Biz Layer Objects and Data Access Objects into seperate assemblies, but when you do that and use LINQ to SQL (.dbml) files the DataContext object default ctor uses