I really needed to archive my messages in Outlook - I’d hit the wall on my Exchange mailbox limit and needed to get some of the cruft out of my (cleanly filed) inbox.

So it used to be really easy to archive things (because I knew where it was)  - but I get into Outlook 2010 and I’m bumbling around like a blind, slightly drunk sailor in the hold of a ship in a class 2 hurricane.

Well, I did a little searching on the ‘nets and found this, that came in handy: http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/locatefeature.htm

Very useful to me, getting over the hump of learning the new Ribbon on Outlook.

I had all kinds of fun getting this to work - so I'm going to record it in case I have to do it again.

1: Make sure TFS2008 Explorer is Installed
2: Install VS2008 SP1 (this Updates VS2008 & TFS2008 Explorer)
3: Install TFS2010 Forward Compatibility Fix (must have SP1 installed or it will refuse to do anything)

When you connect to the server, you will have to use the full URL to VS2010, for example:

http://teamServer:8080/tfs/<collectionname>

If SP1 and the Forward compatibility tool aren't installed, you'll get an error about the server name cannot contain "://" or similar.  Make sure you don't have a trailing '/' either.

Useful Links:

Most of this is better explained in Jason Barile's blog post (which, of course, I didn’t find until I almost had it working but this got me over the URL hump):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonba/archive/2009/08/10/how-to-connect-to-a-tfs-2010-server-from-a-2008-team-explorer-client.aspx

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CF13EA45-D17B-4EDC-8E6C-6C5B208EC54D&displaylang=en

Yet another Note to Self post--

In almost all the cases where I’m working on projects, I have multiple assemblies in the solution… In a lot of cases, I’ll make changes in one of the dependencies of my solution and when I get to a later step in the build, something else breaks.

A lot of the time, once I work my way back through the pack of build errors, I’ll find that way up my dependency tree, one of my projects had a compile error and it has trickled down through the rest of the build, causing one error after another.

A long time ago, from a source unknown to me now  I found a snippet of a Visual Studio Macro that got close to what I wanted and over the years, I’ve done some slight modifications and improvements to it and still use it.  It’s really simple, but it something that helps my workflow in small but measureable way.

So here is what I do… [after the break]

IMG_9388, originally uploaded by CATucker.

Just wnted to try the Flickr Integration and while I was at it, prove that I have been taking some pictures lately. I've got to get back to that, I've been slacking lately...  Need to get back on it...

52 weeks 17 hours ago --- The Idea Bucket came online… Well, I got lucky - the site actually made it to a year with (semi-) regular updates… here is to next year and the year after… and the year…  :)