So here at Infragistics we're truly a global company now which makes life as a TFS Administrator very "interesting" for sure!  Everyone is working around the clock and things can go wrong pretty much 24-7.  Oh well - I'm used to it already :)

If you didn't know, last week Microsoft announced that all of the localized versions of Team System Web Access (TSWA) had been finished and available for download.  This was great because we needed a couple of them for internal use. The only problem I found was that you can't install more than one version of TSWA on the same machine.  That's no fun :(

Thankfully Hakan came to my rescue and gave me a few steps to try and they definitely worked out for me.  I did everything on a separate virtual machine, gathered all of the files I needed, and then copied them to the TSWA web server. 

Disclaimer:  If you're going to follow the steps be mindful that this is completely unsupported by Microsoft.

1. Install <localized version>
2. Copy the files to C:\TSWA\<localized version code>
3. Uninstall <localized version>
4. (Repeat for all languages)
5. Manually create web sites in IIS to point to each of the different languages
• Make sure each TSWA instance uses a different IIS AppPool
• Make sure each TSWA instance points to a different cachedir

There you go!  Also, it might be helpful to use host headers to help users out with discovering their localized versions of TSWA.  This allows you to use port 80 as well instead of the usual default of 8090.  For example:

• English - tfsweb.[your domain]
• Japanese - tfsweb-jp.[your domain]
• German - tfsweb-de.[your domain]
• etc.

Ed B.

It's available now on MSDN Subscriber Downloads.  It's only available on the front of the Subscriptions site for right now.  It may not show up immediately so you might want to log off of your Windows Live ID and log back in while you're on the same page.

Ed B.

Brian Harry on eScrum TFS 2008 compatibility.

eScrum and TFS 2008

*Sorry folks this blog post is mainly a book mark for me so I can google my brain later.

Ed K.

I was just reminded this morning by an old colleague that Ed K. and I have been slacking tremendously since we haven't had any blog posts since November :)  I want to wish everyone a happy new year and share some news.  Last week, I moved back to Dallas and will be working remotely from home.  It's new for me so I'm still trying to get into the groove of things.  Scott Hanselman's latest posts about being a remote worker have been extremely interesting to me.

It's been a little hectic in the last few weeks.  I needed to wrap a few things up before I went on vacation at the office.  Also, we had our final NJ .NET User's Group meeting for the year which turned out to be terrific.  Since it's a new year, we also had announced a new leader - Jess Chadwick.  It has been a privilege to serve as a leader of the group for 2007.   I really want to thank Jess, Tony, Ambrose, Kathleen, and Peter for the help during the year in leading the group.  I'm looking forward to rejoining the Dallas .NET community and also the newly formed Dallas VSTS Users Group (How exciting!)

From there, there was:  packing, cleaning, movers picking up, cleaning, driving, getting the new place, movers dropping off, unpacking, getting new furniture, setting up the new office, having out-of-town guests, whew... and getting ready to host a party!

After waking up from a very long but extremely fun night on New Year's Eve (which ended up being my housewarming party as well since all of my friends were in town,) I was surprised to find an e-mail in my inbox:

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award!

Oh I was/still am pretty excited! :)  It's exciting to be working at Infragistics for many reasons.  They have been the most supportive company that I have worked for when it comes to being involved in the developer community which is one of the primary reasons I came aboard a year ago.  Describing Infragistics as "community-friendly" would be putting it mildly!  There's a total of SEVEN MVPs now at Infragistics which is a testament to the quality of people that I have the privilege to work with every day.  We really do have the best people in every department around the company.

There are so many people who really have been extremely helpful to me.  I want to specifically thank Ambrose for his mentorship as my coach for the majority of 2007.  He has been very influential in my career and cared about my professional growth.  Thank you!  So many people deserve Kudos:  Ed K., Jess, Tony, Jason B., Peter, Grant, Kathleen, Devin, Josh, Tim, Caleb, Omar, Fraser, Jason T., Chuck, Mel

I'm still working on getting my profile to get it all set up with my information so for now it's a work in progress:  My MVP Profile

All in all, I'm looking forward to the new year and what exciting things are in store both at Infragistics and with my continued involvement with the developer community.  It's going to be an awesome year!

Ed B.

If you happen to use Dotfuscator by PreEmptive Solutions then you have probably wondered how to integrate this into your automated Team Builds.  They happen to include an MSBuild task for calling the proper command-line functions but don't have much documentation about this feature.

Background Obfuscation Information:  In general, obfuscation prevents reverse engineering of your software by using different techniques to make the MSIL of your .NET compiled application less understandable.  Several different companies use many techniques for doing this including: string encryption, renaming of symbols, control flow manipulation, etc.  If you've ever used Reflector for .NET you know how easy it is to look at reverse-engineered "source code" for a .NET application.

• Start by putting your Dotfuscator configuration file in the folder that contains your team build script (i.e. TFSBuild.proj) and it to source control.
• Open up your team build script and edit it.  (Be sure to check it out first.)
• Start by adding a reference to the proper custom targets file that is provided.  You should have a Dotfuscator Build Machine license installed on the TFS Build Server(s.)  If you got the wrong license version, just ask them for upgrade pricing.
  
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\PreEmptive\Dotfuscator\4.0\PreEmptive.Dotfuscator.Targets" />

• Next, add a section for the Dotfuscator Properties you will need.  You'll notice we have a keys directory that gets pulled down from source control during the build process.  We keep our strong name key in this direcotry and the keydir directory property is for resigning the assemblies after the obfuscation is complete.
  
    <!-- Properties for Dotfuscate Task-->
    <PropertyGroup>
      <ConfigPath>$(SolutionRoot)\..\BuildType\Dotfuscator.Configuration.xml</ConfigPath>
      <InputPath>$(SolutionRoot)\..\Binaries\Release</InputPath>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <PropertyGroup>
      <DotfuscatorProperties>
        <targetdir>$(InputPath)</targetdir>
        <keydir>$(SolutionRoot)\Keys</keydir>
      </DotfuscatorProperties>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
      <InputAssembly Include="$(InputPath)\*.dll;$(InputPath)\*.exe" Exclude="$(InputPath)\*.vshost.exe"/>
    </ItemGroup>  

• Finally, customize the AfterCompile target by adding the Dotfuscate task with appropriate property settings.  See more information about Customizable Team Foundation Build Targets.
  
    <Target Name="AfterCompile">
      <!-- Perform obfuscation steps after assemblies are compiled.-->
      <Dotfuscate InputAssemblies="@(InputAssembly)" Properties="$(DotfuscatorProperties)" ConfigPath="$(ConfigPath)">
        <Output TaskParameter="MappingFile" ItemName="DotfuscatorMappingFile"/>
        <Output TaskParameter="ReportFiles" ItemName="DotfuscatorReportFiles"/>
        <Output TaskParameter="OutputAssemblies" ItemName="DotfuscatedAssemblies"/>
        <Output TaskParameter="SatelliteAssemblies" ItemName="DotfuscatedSatelliteAssemblies"/>
        <Output TaskParameter="DebugSymbols" ItemName="DotfuscatedDebugSymbols"/>
      </Dotfuscate>
    </Target>
  
• Next, take some time to edit your Dotfuscator configuration file.  Notice the properties I am using in my sample project below and what is being set in the Dotfuscator properties collection in the Team Build script above.  Basically, I have just cleared the property values out to make sure that the MSBuild task populates them correctly.
  
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
  <!DOCTYPE dotfuscator SYSTEM"http://www.preemptive.com/dotfuscator/dtd/dotfuscator_v2.1.dtd">
  <dotfuscator version="2.1">
    <!--This is application generated code. Do not edit manually.-->
    <propertylist>
      <property name="targetdir" value="" />
      <property name="keydir" value="" />
    </propertylist>
    <global>
      <option>verbose</option>
    </global>
    <input>
      <asmlist>
        <inputassembly>
          <option>library</option>
          <file dir="${targetdir}" name="Shared.Library.dll" />
        </inputassembly>
      </asmlist>
    </input>
    <output>
      <file dir="${targetdir}\Dotfuscated" />
    </output>
    <tempdir>
      <file dir="${targetdir}\Dotfuscated" />
    </tempdir>
    <renaming>
      <!--<mapping>
        <mapoutput overwrite="false">
          <file dir="${targetdir}\Dotfuscated" name="DotfuscatorMapFile-KeepSecure.xml" />
        </mapoutput>
      </mapping>-->
    </renaming>
    <controlflow level="high" />
    <stringencrypt>
      <includelist>
        <assembly>
          <file dir="${targetdir}" name="Shared.Library.dll" />
        </assembly>
      </includelist>
    </stringencrypt>
    <signing>
      <resign>
        <option>dontuseattributes</option>
        <key>
          <file dir="${keydir}" name="StrongName.key" />
        </key>
      </resign>
    </signing>
  </dotfuscator>
   
• That's it.  Finally, just customize it to your heart's content!

Feel free to let me know if I can improve this in any way!  I'm always looking to efficiently refactor our Team Build scripts.

Ed B.

I'm excited to announce that we have finally released a free tool to help you visualize resource usage in your WPF applications.  Kudos to the team on a job well done!

Pistachio helps you by:

• Seeing what resources are being used.
• Finding unused resources.
• Displaying the types of resources being used.
• Filtering, Sorting, etc.
• Cool Visualizations of Usage

If you were at either of my talks at Boston ReMix or Tulsa Tech Fest you got a pre-release preview but now it's all ready for you to use!  Please let us know if you have any suggestions or problems while using.  There are several more features being planned so let us know what's important to you.

DOWNLOAD HERE:  Pistachio - WPF Resource Visualizer

Ed B.

Ever since I started at Infragistics, I had been working in the User Experience Group (under the Evangelism umbrella) primarily with WPF & WinForms.  As some of you know, I wasn't too fond with WPF at the beginning :) but now I love it.  [Shameless Plug:  Have you checked out Tangerine?  See my blog post about it.]

I have taken a new position now as what is usually referred to as the Configuration Manager (HR Title:  Configuration and Process Improvement Engineer.)

As some of you know, I have been working with Team Foundation Server since pre-beginning (is that a word?) like during the Betas.  [Strolls down memory lane... Anyone remember the Beta 2 to Beta 3 upgrade? whew... Ed K. remembers that day with the 3-hour phone call from the TFS Product Team.  Those were the days. I got a cool TFS All Stars shirt from it though!]  I digress.  Infragistics has decided to adopt TFS and planning to migrate pretty much all of our separate systems to it.  So, that's what I'm doing now in the Engineering department!  Although I'll be missing doing WPF and Evangelism work, I'm pretty excited about getting to do TFS stuff full-time.

If you were at Grant and I's talk at Boston ReMix or my talk at Tulsa Tech Fest, you got the preview of a community WPF application that we're working on to gather data from TFS and replace our Release Status Wall.  It's basically an application to visualize your release process.  As soon as we get something ready to preview, I'll definitely post up on here.  So I get to put my love of both WPF and TFS together!  Grant's a God-send when it comes to making applications look great. I'm really blessed to be working for a company that has a dedicated Visual Design team... We have 5 dedicated Visual Designers now... wow.

Another one of my goals with our new system of tracking development data is to provide more transparency to our customers in regard to feature tracking, bugs, etc.  I think it's important (as a previous customer) to be able to have that kind of transparency.  I'm thinking something along the line of Microsoft's Connect website.

So I look forward to being able to talk more about TFS and coming out with some exciting tools and information.  Don't worry, I still do WPF development too so you'll still see me from time to time blogging about it and speaking.  I just finished up a WPF magazine article yesterday even :)

BTW... I'll be in DevConnections next week in Las Vegas doing some WPF Evangelism stuff so be sure to hit me up if you'll be in town!

Ed B.

I don't know how I ever missed it but I was shocked to find that I could not restrict users from branching and merging in TFS Version Control.  Ahhhhhh!!!!

The only security privileges (for Version Control) that are available are:

• Read
• Check out (branching, merging, and other similar pending changes fall into this category)
• Check in
• Label
• Lock
• Revise other users' changes
• Unlock other users' changes
• Administer labels
• Manipulate security settings
• Check in other users' changes

If you want more information about the specifics for Version Control privileges, check out MSDN at:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252587(VS.80).aspx

If you are facing this same issue and believe that it should be a feature in the product, help out by voting on the feature suggestion on Visual Studio Connect:  https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=307874

Ed B.

So there is a huge problem with uninstalling the TFS Power Tools if you have them installed on Windows Vista.  This becomes particularly a problem when you want to upgrade the TFS Power Tools (which I was trying to do to the version just released a few weeks ago.)

If you try to uninstall the regular way, you get all sorts of errors like:

Error 1722. There is a problem with this windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your...

Seriously - it sucks.  I even got fed up and finally decided to rebuild my machine at work (this particular uninstall experience wasn't the only reason for rebuilding my work laptop but definitely was the tipping point!) :)

Anyhow, just to save you a lot of problems, open up a command prompt as an Administrator and run:

msiexec /x {C802488F-CB5F-48BE-BBD2-0C0F9E290E63}

Click "Yes" to the next prompt and you should have a clean uninstall!

Ed B.

VS 2008 has added a new feature called Code Metrics (CM). Code Metrics is a way to produce actionable information on a project or solution. When you generate CM on your code it produces such things as Maintainability Index, Cyclomatic Complexity, Class Coupling, Inheritance depth and lines of code.

Here is a brief description of each:
Cyclomatic Complexity: How many paths of execution are in your code. i.e. Enter a Method, That's 1, Hit an If, That's 2, Hit an Else, That's 3. This has a Cyclomatic complexity of 3. Here is more robust definition.
Class Coupling: Indicates how many other classes relate to this class
Inheritance depth: The level of inheritance
Lines of code: Self explanatory, everyone's favorite
Maintainability Index: An aggregate of the above metrics.

Each of these are shown at the assembly level then it allows you to drill down to the namespace, class and method level.

Why is this so cool? Being able to produce and show these metrics allows you to better manage existing code and produce more manageable new code, which in turn pushes you and your team to code to better standards. These metrics are actionable, meaning they enable you to do something with your code by visually displaying the information and giving you the ability to actually assign a work item right from the Code Metrics result window and attach the information to it as well. 

This is only one tool in the suite of tools within VS 2008 that will enable and guide you to produce better, more secure and performant code. Harness the power of them all!

The Code Metrics result window; user adding a work item based off metrics:

Work item created from Metrics. Notice the how the work item has all the information attached via the "History" tab.

Ed K.

If you're using Windows SharePoint Services (which is installed with Team Foundation Server) or SharePoint Portal Server, you don't get to see the file icons for the files with Office 2007 extensions (i.e. docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.)

I'm not sure if they have updated it in the 2007 version of SharePoint Portal Server, WSS 3.0, or in TFS 2008.  If you happen to know, contact me and let me know and I'll update it here.

Anyhow, have you ever wondered how to add new file extensions with associated icons into SharePoint?  Check out the blog site that Alexander Groß manages and he has just how to do it!  It's something that has bothered me enough already and I'm ready to get it resolved!

How To:  http://www.therightstuff.de/2006/12/16/Office+2007+File+Icons+For+Windows+SharePoint+Services+20+And+SharePoint+Portal+Server+2003.aspx

Ed B.

I recently gave a presentation @ Microsoft on Visual Studio 2008 Team System to a crowd of about 40. The presentation was an all day event where we discussed existing and new features to Team System 2008.

Slide Deck:   Tech Briefing.rar (3.41 MB)   
Presenters:   Ed Kisinger, Sogeti  Topic: Architect/Developer 
                   Tony Mocella, Sogeti Topic: Project Management
                   Brent Lintz, Sogeti Topic: Build/Version Control

Ed K.

Are you missing your process template editor submenu underneath the "Team" menu in Visual Studio?  The new process template editor that is bundled with the TFS Power Tools requires for you already have the Domain-Specific Language Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Redistributable Components installed on your machine.

After you have installed that you should be good to go.  Be sure to uninstall the Power Tools and then install them again to get it to come up.

Ed B.

I switched from Sprint to AT&T as my cell phone carrier recently. Why? Sprint's Customer Service Sucks!... I will leave it at that. So far AT&T is awesome. I picked up the BlackJack as my new phone. This phone is really for the working professional, I got the unlimited data plan so I am able to read email, cruise the Internet, IM, Google Map, monitor my stocks and use my phone as a modem. Life is really great with this phone.

If you are looking for a great work phone, then I would recommend the BlackJack.

Ed K.

Have you ever seen this? Scratch your head for hours? What the heck is wrong, all I want to see is my Code Coverage from my tests!!!!

No worries, I get asked this question everyday. Here is how to make sure you instrument Code Coverage during your tests.

Here is what you probably see:

Go to the "Test" menu on your tool bar and "Edit your Test Run Configurations"

Click on the "Code Coverage" List Item and select the artifacts to instrument:

Now rerun your test(s) and you will have code coverage :)

Thanks,

Ed K.

I do not see the "Create Instance" or "Invoke Static Method"..... uggghh I know this happened in VS2005 but it was fixed in SP1.

If I get an answer I will post it up here as an update.

UPDATE: It magically appeared today. Wierd.

Thanks,

Ed K.

It's been a while since I last blogged something but that's because I've been hard working on our latest exemplar at Infragistics.  It's a WPF "reference application" and is released.... RIGHT NOW!  So if you want to learn some good techniques about including a WPF application in an enterprise realm, take a look at Tangerine!

It's available both as a ClickOnce deployment, or if you really want to dig in, head to the Full Source Code and documentation download.

Learn Windows Presentation Foundation and NetAdvantage for WPF

Use Tangerine, our first exemplar for WPF, to not only learn WPF and NetAdvantage for WPF but also to learn good practices for enterprise application development across the board. This solution provides a full application, including complete source code, as well as several accompanying papers to help guide you in your application development. In addition to using it as a learning tool, the solution has been architected in such a way as to make it easy for you to reuse it in your own development, either in whole or in part.

Tangerine v1.0 is a WPF-based asset browser application. It has a pluggable architecture so that you can provide any number of different back-end asset providers while reusing the same snazzy UI that's based on Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF toolset. In our first release, we have supplied an Amazon Web Services' E-Commerce Service provider so that you can use the application to browse and search the Amazon.com catalogue. You can use the links below to both run the application (via ClickOnce deployment) now or download the solution and papers.

To learn more about the solution, check out Introducing Tangerine, which describes the tools we used to build Tangerine as well as an overview of the accompanying papers.

We've got quite a few exciting things and a number of solutions to problems solved.  We've also included 6 white papers to help you learn a little more about the project...

Delve into Tangerine

The best way to really dive into Tangerine is to go ahead and download the complete solution so that you can explore the code. However, for your convenience, you can delve into the accompanying papers online.

• Introducing Tangerine (PDF/XPS) [~1.2 MB] - The best way to get started learning about the solution.
• Story (PDF/XPS) [~800 KB] - Tells the story of the application’s development, including key decisions and problems solved along the way.
• Vision & Scope (PDF/XPS) [~410 KB] - The original, unaltered vision & scope document that started the development process that you can use as an example and to get a feel for how the application changed over time. It is an artifact of the application’s development.
• Requirements (PDF/XPS) [~650 KB] - The original, unaltered requirements document that can be used as an example of how to do scenario-based requirements w/o falling into the rut of prescribing an implementation. It is another artifact of our development.
• Architecture (PDF/XPS) [~700 KB] - An architectural overview of the solution—a good starting point before delving into the code.
• Perspectives on WPF (PDF/XPS) [~370 KB] - Discusses learning WPF from the viewpoint of different developer/designer roles.

How about some screen shots?  This is the home screen:

This is the "Glance View" which uses the xamCarouselListBox to show of browse or search results in an animated fashion:

Last but not least, this is the "List View" which uses the xamDataGrid to show off the same browse/search results but in a tabular data fashion:

Just want to say thanks to the other members on my team in the User Experience Group and to our GREAT designers in the Visual Design Group!  (They're really awesome by the way.  We've got 5 now!)

Ed B.

Grant Hinkson (our Director of Visual Design at Infragistics) and I will be doing our talk "Meeting in the Middle - Designer/Developer Interaction in WPF."  It looks like we have the first breakout session on Tuesday, October 9 at 9:00 AM.  Take a look to see what other sessions are going on:  https://admin.viewcentral.com/events/uploads/ms_events/agenda.html

Session Details

Date:  10/9/2007

Time:  9:00am – 10:15am

Title:  Meeting in the Middle - Designer/Developer Interaction in WPF

Abstract:

In this session, Ed and Grant will highlight many of the lessons they learned when developing the enterprise-level WPF reference application, Tangerine. Tangerine is an asset browser built using the data provider model to browse the Amazon online catalog. Additionally, they will discuss the Software Release Status application currently under development. This project management tool uses the power of WPF to visually represent the status of your software projects using data from your Team Foundation Server. You'll get an inside look at the interaction between development and design, and gain insight into practical solutions for common problems.

Brad Abrams, Group Product Manager for the Microsoft .NET Framework, will be the keynote speaker and will be talking about the Rising Tide of User Experience.  Pretty awesome!  You know we like UX!

Want to Save Some Money on Registration?

Well, just because I want to make sure everyone is coming... If you use the following RSVP code, RM07EXTB, it will save you $100 of your registration.

More Info

http://www.remix07boston.com

What to expect at ReMIX07 Boston …

If you’re in the web business, learn about:

• Building a better user experience to unlock new revenue opportunities
• Forging tighter, stickier customer connections
• Building innovative media experiences into your site

If you’re a web developer, build:

• Silverlight applications quickly and easily
• Sites and applications that consume Windows Live services
• Rich, interactive sites made for the next web

If you’re a web designer, learn about:

• Using Silverlight to design gorgeous and highly functional user interfaces
• How a real-world application is built and the best practices associated with it
• The suite of Expression tools that revolutionize the way designers work with developers

If you attend, regardless of your job role, check out:

• Xbox Gaming Area where you can test your skills at Halo 3 and Guitar Hero among others
• Express Yourself Design Contest where key design agencies compete to solve a real-world design problem
• Stay tuned: We may feature some cool products and demos around XNA, Popfly, Robotics Studio and Surface

It’s Happening Here

Monday-Tuesday, October 8-9, 2007

October 8:             Registration & Breakfast from 7:00-9:00 am
Keynote & Breakouts from 9:00 a.m.-5:45 pm
Welcome Reception from 6:00-9:00 pm

October 9:             Registration & Breakfast from 8:00-9:00 am

                                Keynote & Breakouts from 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Hyatt Regency Cambridge

575 Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02139

For directions click here.

Ed B.

The featured clips are pretty cool and unique, people must have a lot of time on their hands.

Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video

Ed K.

Interesting...Great concept, especially if you have disparate teams and no TFS expertise on staff. Sure beats using VSS remotely with an expert on staff.

Off the cuff, this is way too expensive. Have a look, it might be what you are looking for.

Readify

Ed K.

Formerly known as Teamplain Web Access for Team System, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access has been released and freely available as a download to licensed customers of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.  Microsoft recently purchased devBiz and is offering their former product for free as a Power Tool.  At some point I'm sure they will bake into the main product but for now, it's a great value-add to the TFS product line.

It's really a great tool for you to use if you don't feel like installing a lightweight version of Visual Studio for users who really don't need all of it.  It reproduces pretty much everything that you could do in Team Explorer but in a nice web application.  I'd say It's nice to have even as a developer!

Ed B.

What the heck is a Guidisan?  Here at Infragistics, we don't like HR titles...  In our group we have people that are Codemunicators, Webinaries, and of course Guidisans.  My role in the UXG is as a Guidisan which is essentially a blend between "guidance" and "artisan."  It sums it right up.  We just happen to be hiring another Guidisan so check out the unofficial posting and then the official post (under Research & Development) and let me know if you're interested!  We've got several other openings at the moment so if you happen to see something you're interested in as well, feel free to let me know.

What do guidisans do? 

• Help gather, specify, and document application vision, scope, and requirements.
• Take application requirements and create an application design that meets the requirements and follows best known practices for both Microsoft .NET and Infragistics products.
• Implement applications following requirements, best practices, and design specifications.
• Create supplemental content such as articles, white papers, screencasts, podcasts, etc. that help elucidate example code and applications.
• Research emerging technologies and create prototypes based on emerging technologies.
• Contribute to joint design sessions as well as coding and design discussions.

What do I need to qualify?

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 4+ years of full-time, professional experience designing and developing business applications.
• 2+ years designing and developing.NET applications (UI development in particular).
• Be able to create vision, scope, and requirements documents based on usage scenarios.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design; familiarity with behavior-driven design, domain-driven design, and test-driven development a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices for .NET application development.
• Accept and provide constructive criticism in group situations.
• Follow design and coding guidelines.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts in writing and speaking.

Ed B.

Come check us out if you'll be in the area!  Ambrose Little and I will be giving our WPF and UX talk on Thursday, August 2 at the New Jersey Microsoft Developer's Group in Iselin, NJ.  We've got some exciting new stuff if you've already heard this talk from us!

August 2nd, 2007

Windows Presentation Foundation, Infragistics

Humanizing Software: Creating Better User Experiences with WPF Ed and Ambrose will discuss the concepts and disciplines involved in the field of user experience and show how WPF can be used to empower developers to create better user experiences through some of its built-in features.

Ed B.

Give Visual Studio 2008 a Spin

Ed K.

Read the post from his blo