Rob
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Oct 27 2014
Viewing All of the Git Repositories in your TFS Team Project within Visual Studio 2013.3
I recently reconnected to a TFS 2013.3 Team Project after quite a while away. I knew that additional Git repos had been added to the team project, but Visual Studio 2013.3 was not displaying them in Team Explorer. It turns out that you need to click the Refresh button (see the red rectangle, below) to …
May 18 2014
Chocolatey Tip of the Day: cup all
If you use Chocolatey (http://chocolatey.org/) and you want to update all of the packages you already have installed, just enter the following at the command prompt and all will be updated: cup all If you don’t want to be prompted for confirmation for each package, then enter the following instead: cup -y all Rob This …
Feb 12 2014
Fixing “The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly”
I started Visual Studio 2013 this morning and opened the About dialog to make sure that I was running Update 1 on this particular machine. Before the About dialog was displayed, I got the following error dialog: ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly. The problem may have been caused …
Jan 19 2014
Connect Windows Live Writer to Your MSDN Blog
This is just a quick reminder post for me (or someone else who stumbles across this) that the solution to connecting your MSDN blog to Windows Live Writer can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ajay_pathak/archive/2012/01/02/now-write-blogs-on-msdn-via-windows-live-writer.aspx The above link is no longer available. Try this archived copy. Note the following: The Settings URL did not take me to …
Dec 03 2013
The ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2.1 has been released!
After a lot of hard work by my fellow pirates, v2.1 of the Treasure Map application has shipped and is now available in the Windows Store. If you are running Windows 8.1, this is the version that you will get when you install it. If you are still running Windows 8.0, you will get v2.0 of the …