MSSCCI Provider for Team Foundation Server

I’m a bit late on repeating this news on the blogosphere (but I figure it has been reported widely anyway). Microsoft has released a MSSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server.

What is a MSSCCI provider I hear you ask? Well its the piece of code you need that allows you to plug into Visual Studio.NET 2003 development teams into Team Foundation Server for things like version control. It also supports the ability to associate work items, changesets and write check-in notes.

The interesting this is that this may also support other tools (but I definately haven’t tried it out). For example PowerBuilder users might be able to play as well.

I don’t know why I’ve got this facination with PowerBuilder at the moment, its kinda like those people that like looking at pictures of roadkill.

BizTalk 2006 and Microsoft Command Shell Demo

Four days ago Joseph Cooney posted up this little snippet about how to stop the various BizTalk application services which may be running on your machine. His muse was BizTalk Server 2004.

I decided I would post up how to do this using BizTalk 2006 with the upcoming Microsoft Command Shell since there doesn’t seem to be that many people championing it down under.

The following command will look at all the services on your machine and issue a stop command for any of them that have a name beginning with BTSSvc$.

get-service | where { $_.Name -like “BTSSvc$*” } | stop-service

I’m really starting to like MSH, the composability of the Cmdlets is really quite good, certainly a lot more powerful then the legacy command-prompt.

The Great Bus Experiment

My wife is down in Melbourne for about three weeks and she took our car down with her. That means that I have effectively been forced to catch the bus to work. Now this isn’t too much of a hardship because I normally catch the bus to and from work (and between client sites).

I’ve found that catching the bus all comes down to preparation, know when you need to be somewhere and count backwards until you determine what is the latest bus you can catch (allow a little padding).

Of course, living in Canberra makes it easier because the public transport system is pretty good in terms of the routes buses take through the suburbs.

Today (Sunday) I am in the bus on the way into the city. My goal is to pick up some meat from the supermarket and then head out to the BBQ grounds at Lennox Park with a few of the Readify guys here in Canberra (Darren, Grant and Rocky).

My co-workers have kindy offered to give me a lift, I may take them up on the offer depending on where I am and how much notice I can give, but its a pretty short Taxi ride from London circuit to Lennox Park so its not too much of a problem.