If you are using Team Foundation Service (i.e. in the cloud, not our on-premise Team Foundation Server), finding the administration pages from the web site can be a bit tricky if you don’t know where to look. Log into your TFS account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up at http://tfs.visualstudio.com. In the upper-right corner …
April 2013 archive
Apr 19 2013
Measuring How Long Commands Take in Windows
I was considering installing the timeit.exe command on my new laptop, but read that it may not work on the latest versions of Windows. So, I found an article on StackOverflow that recommended using the Measure-Command command in PowerShell. You use it as follows, where Get-ChildItem is just listing the current directory as an example command …
Apr 03 2013
Consolidating Hyper-V Differencing Disks into One
I deleted two snapshots from a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) this morning. This left the base .vhd file and two .avhd differencing disks. I decided I wanted to merge them into a single file and learned that the diskpart tool will let you do this. Open an elevated command prompt (i.e. run as administrator). Run …