Since yesterday I got a strange Outlook Express message.

"To free up disk space outlook express can compact messages"

I call it strange as I don't have OE installed, because I'm using Outlook.

So looking around in my system to see if there was some OE instance somewhere I didn't find anything.  Googling for this problem gave me the solution.
The problem is with Windows Desktop Search.  it seems that by default OE is defined as an indexed location.  So there are three steps needed to solve this problem.

1) Close the message box with cancel
2) Click on the magnifying glass of Windows Desktop Search and choose Windows Desktop Search Options from the menu. You will see that OE is listed under "Included Locations". Click the modify button to bring up the "Indexed Locations popup".  Uncheck the Microsoft Outlook Express: Main Identity entry.
3) Open regedit and navigate to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlo ok Express\5.0.  Replace GUID with the long number used for your identy.  I had only one GUID so it was easy. In the right pane double click on "Compact Check Count" and set the value to zero. Close regedit en restart your computer.

It solved the problem for me.  But I saw the counter was going up again.  So maybe in e few months I got the message again.  We will see.

We got the question of one of our teams if it is possible to hold the dropping of the files after a build is done.  They want to have this for the CI builds on the DEV Branche. So they could win time on their builds.

The solution for this is easy, just use this statement in your build file:

<Target Name="DropBuild">

</Target>

I don't want to recommend to use this approach, and if you want to use it, use it only for very big projects.

One of our developers just had a problem.  He did a get latest source.  Normally this takes around 1 minute.  Now after 10 minutes or so it was still busy and looks like it was hanging.

Probably this is because of a corrupt local cache.

The problem was solved by clearing the local cache:

This week I received some great news.  The session I gave my colleague Peter Doomen @ XPDays Benelux 2010 (All info here) is selected as one of the 12 best session.  We now going to redeliver our session @ the Mini XP Day on April 1st 2011, In Mechelen (Belgium).

More info will follow.

In our company we are setting up TFS2010.  We have decided not to roll-out VS2010 by default.  Most of the developers still going to use VS2008.  Standard VS2008 can't connect to TFS2010.
But by installing the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team System 2010, they can connect.

Be sure that Vs2008 SP1 is installed.  Next download the Update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d and install it.

After the installation, you can add your TFS2010 server in the Team Explorer 2008.

One remark:
Normally, when adding a server, you just type <Servername> and Team Explorer will add the port. To connect to TFS2010 to type:

http://<servername>:<port>/<web application path>/<Team Collection>.  See image for an example.



This will give you the list of all Team Projects under this collection in the way a developer is used to see it for TFS2008.  You can't leave the teamcollection out of it as VS2008 can't work with team collections.

Second remark:
Don't close the URL with a trailing backslash.  Team Explorer will fail making the connection and give you the message "Team Explorer is busy....".  This bug is introduced in the Team Explorer Forward Compatible Update.

In our company we are currently working with VS2008 and office 2003.  Everything will be upgrade to VS2010 and Office 2010 the comming months.
But some developers already have VS2010.

Since the moment that they have it installed they had problems with VS2008 connecting to excel.
They always got the error "TF86001: Team Foundation was unable to load the office addin" and "TF80042: The document cannot be opened because you don't have Microsoft Excel 2003 or later, or one of its components installed".

The problem is caused bacause of the installation of VS2010.  Here you need at least office 2007 or higher.

The solution for this is easy.  Just follow the next steps:

1) Open a command prompt in admin mode
2) Change the directory to "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies"
3) Unregister the 2010 add-in version: "regsvr32 /u TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"
4) Chnage the directory to "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies" (could also 9.0 instead of 9)
4) Register the 2008 add-in version: "regsvr32 TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"

This will  disable the office integration in VS2010 and enable it again in VS2008.  You cannot use the tree queries, it has only the ability for flat queries.
Also you can only use VS2008 and not VS2010 for the export to excel.

If you repair your Team Explorer,there is a big change you have to do these steps again.

What if we upgrade to Office 2007 or higher after this change?  Easy just the the opposite.  Unregister the VS2008 add-in and register the VS2010 add-in.

Yesterday I took the exam @ Sitecore for Advanced User and I passed with 18/20.  So from now on, I'm a certified Advanced User .

What is Sitecore? Sitecore is a WCMS (Web Content Management System).  In our company we use it for our websites.

The advanced training gives you following insides:

1. What is it?
2. How does everything work (like content editor, page editor)
3. How to publish
4. Workflows
5. Security
6. Maintenance

This year, the 8th edition of the XP Days Benelux takes place on November 25-26th 2010.  The location is Kapellerput in Heeze (The Netherlands).

Together with my colleague Peter Doomen, I'm selected as a speaker.  The session we are going to deliver is the Frog Factory. Read more about this session here and here.

All the info about the XpDays can be found here.

May we have your vote please? Together with 3 colleagues, I participate on the PMI Agile contest on YouTube. Have a look at our presentation Agile @ SD Worx YannicHelsen and give us your vote! How to? Sign in on YouTube, become a member of the PMIAgile group on http://lnkd.in/BpXYNP  , click on our video (“Agile @ SDWorx” YannicHelsen) and vote for use by clicking I love it! Tnx in advance!

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