Effective Coding for the .Net Developer
Effective Coding for the .Net Developer
Now there is no excuse for not using source control
Microsoft has started offering free TFS in the cloud. Signing up and using with visual studio is a pretty easy process. Microsofts directions are found here.
Go to http://tfs.visualstudio.com/#
Click signup, create a new url for your project. Once you have done that create a new TFS Root then you will have an options to start new instance of Visual Studio. On my configuration this did not work, but if you inspect the link you could see the url to the TFS server.
Grab the url, figure out the link and go to visual studio -> team -> then put your new TFS server in there. Check in your code and enjoy.
Now it's time to go find all of my old projects … more
Feedback From User Voice
See that little feedback horn on the right of the page. I had a requirement to have a way to do user feedback for Windows 8 Apps and it was suggested that I user uservoice.
The whole process took less than 5 minutes. You got to uservoice.com, choose plans and pricing, click start now on the free option and fill out the infromation. At the end they give you some javascript to add to your pages. It looks like the following:
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
var uvOptions = {};
(function() {
var uv = document.createElement('script'); uv.type = 'text/javascript'; uv.async = true;
uv.src = ('https:' == … more