Martin Kulov's Blog

Code Metrics are completely new and exiting functionality in VS2008. It still needs a lot of work and integration scenarios to be provided from Microsoft, but it is there and you can use it. For the rest of the poor VS2005, VSS or plain file system users there is a custom add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that counts LOC using customizable counting rules. The tool is written by MicrosoftIT in partnership with Microsoft Research. You can download LOC counter here.

Labels: Visual Studio 2005

This Saturday we organized the first pilot CodeCamp in Bulgaria. Personally I think the event was superb. First it was the variety of the nature of presentation that were given. They were not required to follow any specific technology track and no one get bored because of that. The small group that we kept allowed us to have discussions on any question at any given time. In one of the sessions the speaker was interrupted to fix a using clause, which eventually led to 15min discussion on why developers have to use tools like Resharper and their prons and cons. We also gained a lot of experience in car repair services under -20°C as an added value :)

Next meeting is scheduled for May so keep an eye on my blog and the CodeCamp web site. You can also see pictures from this pilot event at the CodeCampBG FaceBook space. A registration of codecamp.bg is pending. If you need support of setting up .bg domain, you can always contact me (for non BG readers - yes, it is f* hard to get a .bg domain).

Thanks to Deyan Varchev and Stefan Dobrev for organizing this event together.

Labels: CodeCamp, INETA

Get Latest Version may not work properly in some circumstances with TFS 2008. I recently found how to reproduce this strange problem that I was experiencing from some time. It happens that if you have already set up a working project on your machine (after you have resolved possible problems with Web Application Projects in the initial project setup), the project may fail to update when you ask to Get Latest Version even using Get Specific Version option is on. The reason for that may be a newly added project to your solution. When someone adds a new project to your solution VS2008 automatically creates a new mapping for this project. So if your workspace mapping before the update is like $\MyProject - > c:\projects\MyProject, when you as for the get latest version you will find that VS has created additional mapping for the new project like $\MyProject\NewProject -> c:\projects\MyProject\NewProject. After that point, for reasons that I am not aware of, get latest version does not work any more. To solve this problem you have to open the Source Control panel from Team Explorer and in the workspace dialog box to edit workspace mappings and delete this new entry.

If you do not edit workspace mappings you will most probably get this error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Source Control Explorer

All files are up to date.

No files were updated because the requested file versions were previously downloaded.

To force an update, use the "Get Specific Version" command with the "Overwrite all..." option checked.
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OK  
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Labels: TFS, Tools and Tips