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Using PowerShell to implement a Farm-wide Global Navigation solution from the Managed Metadata Term Store in SharePoint 2013

Co-Written by John R. Spinella & Daniel Setlock We had a requirement at a customer to provide...

Date: 05/04/2017

Release Explorer for Visual Studio Beta: Update

Hello, To give everyone a update, I am currently finishing up the integration of VSO/RMO. With the...

Date: 05/29/2015

Release Explorer for Visual Studio Beta

For some time now, I have been working on a update to my Deployment Explorer that was built for the...

Date: 03/06/2015

Dev/Test with Microsoft Azure & Visual Studio 2013

So, I have been working a lot with customers on DevOps and one of the quick and easy way to achieve...

Date: 11/21/2014

Modern DevOps Tools

Hey everyone, Been awhile since I posted anything, been really busy. I just wanted to update...

Date: 05/28/2014

Channel 9 video - Introducing DevOps Workbench Express Edition for Visual Studio 2012

You can watch the full video here:...

Date: 10/03/2013

DevOps Workbench Express Edition Release for Visual Studio 2012

The ALM Rangers currently released the DevOps Workbench Express Edition guidance to Codeplex (here)...

Date: 10/03/2013

Targeted for Visual Studio 2012 – DevOps Deployment Workbench Express Edition

New Video posted today by my good friend and team mate on YouTube about the DevOps Workbench Express...

Date: 10/03/2013

BRDLite V2.0 is Released to the Public!

After a few weeks of silent ship, which did not reveal any showstoppers, we would like to announce...

Date: 02/21/2013

Using ReverseGeocodeQuery for Windows Phone 8

So, I started writing some of my apps I had for Android and WP7 for Windows Phone 8 and to my...

Date: 11/02/2012

Presented at the Virginia Software Developers Group

Hello, had a great time seeing all the Virginia developers at the September version of the Virginia...

Date: 09/14/2012

BRDLite for SharePoint v2.0 - What's New

In my previous post, What is BRDLite? I talked about what is BRDLite and what is coming in the next...

Date: 09/13/2012

SharePoint Software Development Lifecycle using TFS 2012 Part 1

Most companies I have been working with have a lot of problems trying to adopt to a SDLC model with...

Date: 08/02/2012

What is Build Release Deploy (BRDLite) ?

Ever since I started on the ALM Rangers project "BRDLite Reference Template", I hear this question a...

Date: 07/29/2012

Announcing OneCode Sample Browser v5 - A Big Refresh with Expansion to 3500+ code samples, Favorite Searches, Flexibilities & More

In partnership with MSDN Samples Gallery, OneCode this morning is releasing a brand new version for...

Date: 05/05/2012

VSTS ALM Ranger

Hello everyone, Today, I officially became a VSTS ALM Ranger, check out my ranger index: Introducing...

Date: 10/23/2011

BizTalk 2010 Real World Example - Part 1

Introduction I wanted to write this blog for the benefit of anyone trying to dip their toes in the...

Date: 06/20/2011

Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Guidance Released

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Guidance....

Date: 06/20/2011

VSTS Rangers Build Management Guide Released

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Build Management Guidance....

Date: 06/20/2011

Learn how ASP.NET apps scale via the cloud

I just watched a great webcast on learning how to scale your asp.net applications with Windows...

Date: 06/16/2011

Windows 8 on the horizon!

So, many of you have seen or heard about the sneak peek of the new version of Windows. I have read...

Date: 06/02/2011

Visual Studio ALM videos at Microsoft TechEd 2011

Hello Everyone, Here is a blog post from Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, Modeling, and...

Date: 05/31/2011

Handling Exceptions when Sending Mail via System.Net.Mail

I am sure alot of us when sending mail from a web application, we sometimes run into some unforeseen...

Date: 05/31/2011

My first blog post

Hello Everyone! This is my first blog post on my new official MSDN blog site. I am very excited to...

Date: 05/30/2011