Call for Speakers is open for our 10th Annual Orlando Code Camp to be held on Saturday, March 28th. Last year we had over 625 attendees, with over 50 speakers and 72 sessions. This event keeps getting bigger and better every year and what better way to spend your Saturday in late March than in […]
When you first connect to a Git Repository in Visual Studio, you are going to be defaulted to cloning the Master remote branch. But what if you want to work on a different branch? You’ll need to clone that branch before you start working on it. If you look at the branches tab in Team […]
This week is Computer Science Education Week. Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. To support these two events, this Thursday afternoon Orlando Tech Association partnered with the City of Orlando to put together Hour of Code events at 4 local middle schools. I approached Orlando […]
I really enjoy using Git and thanks to all the built-in functionality in Visual Studio, using it on a daily basis is a great experience. Unfortunately not all Git commands are in the IDE yet, so when I need to do something outside of Visual Studio, I go to command-line. Before you can use the […]
Tomorrow, November 20th, I will be speaking at Azure Cloud DevCamp event at the Microsoft Tampa office. This is a fantastic event. I presented at the Fort Lauderdale stop a few weeks ago and had a blast doing so. My session will cover Data (SQL, Blob, Big Data w/ HD Insight). Come and learn how […]
Among one of the many exciting changes released by Microsoft last week was TFS 2013 Update 4. This update includes new lightweight charts that you can access from the Test hub of the TFS Web Portal. The reports provide you with snapshot and trend charts for test cases and test results. Just like other […]
I use SQL Server Database Projects to manage my project’s DB schema changes and keep them version controlled. I recently got a new laptop and installed SQL Server 2014 on it. When I started a new project and tried to import the new schema into Visual Studio 2013, I ran into this error: “Could not […]
I’m working on an application that uses Git hosted by Visual Studio Online. My development site is hosted as an Azure website. I want to be able to push directly from my desktop to Azure, which is pretty simple to configure from the Azure portal by clicking on “Integrate source control” Then select Local Git […]
Today, Pluralsight released my course on Microsoft Test Manager 2013. I’m very excited and proud of this course, many of you probably learned about MTM with my MTM 2012 course, which was released last year. This course takes you through all the previously-found features and it includes all the new features found in 2013, including […]
Yesterday I was working in my Visual Studio Online account and I noticed a new link that I hadn’t seen before: I got really excited so I had to check it out and I found the new tool to create a run Load tests right from Visual Studio Online. That’s right, you don’t even have […]