Richard Murillo on Software Development

Building Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL

Introduction The LINQ framework offers a basic pattern of sequence operators, allowing for primitive...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 08/26/2009

Influencing Executives

Preparing Your Idea The first real step in preparing a proposal with a greater chance of success is...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 06/17/2009

Easy String to Resource file refactoring

During the development of internal tools we often have to stop working on features and clean up...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 02/10/2009

Utilizing memoization and Dijkstra’s Fibonacci algorithm to compute large values

More of an acute fascination than anything else I expanded my use of memoization for computation to...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/15/2008

Extensions I found useful while developing with WPF and LINQ to SQL

  When I observe developers writing solutions using LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, I see a...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/15/2008

Significantly speeding up computations with smart predicates

There is a technique that allows optimization of repeated calculation results for a set of inputs...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/15/2008

Software development outsourcing and client proximity

I had a recent comment come in that I wanted to share: I was wondering what your take was on...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/08/2008

Team Foundation Server Power Tools (tfpt) 1.2 Released

Today the Team Foundation Server team announced the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 02/21/2007

Getting my Sandcastle Team Build targets file to work with Sandcastle September CTP

A few things before we get started: You will need the HTML Help Workshop installed September CTP of...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/31/2006

Reusable MSBuild Sandcastle Targets File

Based on a past post, I have an external targets file you can place in your $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/30/2006

VSTF Feature Request

There have been several instances when working with multiple teams that they need to build different...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 10/25/2006

Using Sandcastle August CTP and MSBuild to produce CHM documentation automatically

First, we created a cmd file to do the build for us. Syntax for calling the file is Build.cmd...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 09/29/2006

I'm on Channel9!

Yay! I'm on the front page of Channel9 with an interview about using Visual Studio Team System in...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 07/26/2006

Outlook 2007 Credential Challenge on Cached Exchange Server Connection

While nothing to do with VSTF or VSTS, I thought I’d share my challenges with everyone regarding an...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 06/30/2006

What is leadership and why is it good to be a leader?

Leaders need to think beyond themselves and engage in conversations with their employees or...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 06/21/2006

Key Design Scenarios with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server - System, Application, Resource Reuse

In order to effectively execute an IT strategy a roadmap must be created to contain and identify...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 05/02/2006

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Feature Requests

I find it difficult to manage many Shared Queries in the work item tracker of VSTF. Sometimes I want...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/28/2006

Key Design Scenarios with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server

First I want to start out with some observations: The Business expects IT to provide a technology...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/26/2006

Strategic Architecture solutions are a way of thinking

Expanding on my previous post on accountability, fostering alignment across the enterprise is really...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/21/2006

Driving Accountability with VSTF

I used to work with a developer, an agile methodology evangelist, who would often tell me stories...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/19/2006

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider

Version 1.0 of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider has been released to the...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/11/2006

Improving Team Foundation Server performance

Buck Hodges has a post in his blog outlining various tips for improving performance on Verifying LAN...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/06/2006

The Differences between TFS Trial and RTM

I received a comment on my blog asking about the differences between TFS Trial and RTM. Here are...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/05/2006

Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Free!

Download or order on CD a full copy of Virtual Server 2005 R2 for 32-bit or 64-bit platforms....

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/05/2006

Security Risk Management Guide

A security risk management guide has been posted to the Microsoft Download Center to help our...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/05/2006

Some Helpful Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server books

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Out May 17) Software Engineering with...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/03/2006

Team Foundation Server MSF Development Process Downloads Available

The packages for MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance and MSF for CMMI Process...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 04/02/2006

SCRUM agile development methodology process template for Team Foundation Server

Conchango has released a process template add-in for Team Foundation Server. It's free and gives you...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/30/2006

Team Foundation Server Trial Edition

Available on Microsoft Download Center!...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/30/2006

Finally got our RC TFS installation upgraded to RTM

Had to go through the upgrade from RC to RTM for Team Foundation Server and I must say it is pretty...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/29/2006

DSL Tools version of VSTS Work Item Type Designer

Darren Jefford has just published a post describing his tool to graphically edit Work Item Types in...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/21/2006

Team Foundation Server has RTM'd

There has been much excitement over the RTM of TFS, however, you cannot buy a pretty boxed copy as...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/20/2006

What I am looking for in a command-line work item tracking tool

John Lawrence asked in his blog entry "What features would you like for a command line work item...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/06/2006

Undo checkout or lock by another user

Scenario: Another user has locked a file for checkout, but is no longer available to check the file...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 03/06/2006

Resolving The identity DOMAINUsername is not a recognized identity error message on check in

Some information is out on the web about a bug that exists when creating a project that results in...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 02/27/2006

What you will find on this blog

This blog will contain information about my group's adoption of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server...

Author: Richard Murillo Date: 02/22/2006