Recently, I had to restore StarTeam 2005 on a Windows 2003 Server.
An out-of-the-box install using MSDE 2000 does not want to run as a service.
This post shows you how I solved that problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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StarTeam 2005 on Windows 2003 Server using MSDE: service dependencies
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/24
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.NET: the TFS / Visual Studio mix: connecting from VS2008 to TFS2010 and CodePlex
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/11
Lately, CodePlex is in the progress of [WayBack] migrating from TFS2008 to TFS2010 (they [Archive.is] have done TFS05…TFS01 and TFS07; TFS06 and TFS08…TFS10 still need to be done).
When your projects have been migrated (or you are going to use TFS2010 yourself), and you use VS2008 (or VS2005 – which I have not tested yet), you need to perform some updates and configuration changes to connect to the new TFS2010 servers.
So this post is about connecting from VS2008 to TFS2010 on CodePlex.
The tips will also work when connecting to a regular TFS2010 server: the connection URL is slightly different. Read the rest of this entry »
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StarTeam UI oddities: creating a new public filter depending on a public query
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/03
Reminder to self.
Creating a new public filter depending on a new public query in StarTeam always bits me.
The reason is this subtle set of StarTeam rules for queries and filters: Read the rest of this entry »
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CodePlex: choosing a license
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/29
One of the toughest parts on creating a new [Archive.is] CodePlex project is choosing a license.
As Jeff Attwood wrote a couple of years ago, choosing a license – any license – is important, because if you don’t, you declare an implicit copyright without explaining how others could use your code.
In addition to that, Jeff published a list of licenses with a one-line phrase describing them, so it becomes easier to start making a choice.
Last year, ShreevastaR extended that list in his answer to this StackOverflow.com question on CodePlex licensing.
Brian Campbell did the same a few months later on another StackOverflow question about CodePlex licensing.
There are many more StackOverflow.com threads like those 2, and they give similar results.
The reason I want to put up a CodePlex project, is to put my sample code for conferences, blog articles and course examples on-line so they are easier to share with other people.
Most is from Visual Studio or Delphi projects using languages C#, VB.NET and Delphi.
Some of it are batch-files, XSD, XSLT, or other small snippets to get stuff working. Read the rest of this entry »
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TFS: Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user – via TFS Version Control and more
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/01
I recently needed to undo a TFS checkout from a user on another workspace.
This particular user had an exclusive lock on the document, was scheduled to be away for considerable time, and I was supposed to finalize that document.
I know that performing the undo is not possible from the Visual Studio UI: you need use the TF command-line application for this kind of work.
Fiddling on my own with the TF undo syntax didn’t get me the results right away, so I was glad to find this “Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user” post by mrod (Mario Rodriguez) from Microsoft.
The trick was to include the bold part: Read the rest of this entry »
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Turbo Power projects finally coming alive again? Nick Hodges is now tpsfadmin on SourceForge – DelphiFeeds.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/29
Nick Hodges just posted he has become the tpfsadmin on sourceforge: the administrative account for the Turbo Power tools and libraries.
It is not an officially sponsored Embarcadero thing, but at best semi official.
However, it is an admirable step into getting the Turbo Power tools and libraries updated in one central place again.
Those tools include OnGuard, Orpheus, SysTools, FlashFiler, B-TreeFiler, Async Professional and many others.
So if you have your own fork of any of the Turbo Power code from sourceforge, then please drop Nick a note.
Many thanks to Nick!
–jeroen
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CodeRage 4: session “Practical XML in Delphi” chat and Q&A transcripts
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/09
Not only can you download CodeRage 4 session on materials on Practical XML in Delphi, but below you can also find the chat transcripts below.
Note the times are a bit odd: when the chat window refreshes, it sometimes uses the PST time zone, but new posts are using the local time zone.
Hence the sudden jump from 9 AM to almost 6 PM.
VIP Room Transcript with Q&A
[5:46:28 PM] <davidi>
| Q: | thomasgrubb asked: “Is there an implementation for XMLDocument (for Delphi Win32) that is file-mapped, e.g., the whole doc is not loaded into memory?” |
| A: | Not that Jeroen is aware of. |
[5:46:54 PM] <davidi>
| Q: | thomasgrubb asked: “Is there an implementation for XMLDocument (for Delphi Win32) that is file-mapped, e.g., the whole doc is not loaded into memory?” |
| A: | Not that Jeroen is aware of. Send Jeroen an email and he will blog about other solutions. |
[5:47:20 PM] <davidi>
| Q: | thomasgrubb asked: “For Embarcadero Technologies: Are you going to develop a better option for validating XML on the Win32 side in the future?” |
| A: | David I – replied – I will forward this to R&D and Product management |
[5:53:14 PM] <davidi>
| Q: | devtux asked: “are you using any XML test generator? Please, suggest one if yes” |
| A: | XMLSpy |
[5:53:47 PM] <davidi>
| Q: | richz asked: “I’ve been trying for weeks to find out how to have the Win32 Delphi IDE generate code to serialize/de-serialize my class properties to an XML file. Is there anything in the IDE to do that?” |
| A: | From Delphi 2010 on – you can use DBX support for JSON! |
Public Room Transcript
[7:58:58 AM] * Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – Next Session”Practical XML in Delphi” at 8AM PDT
[8:02:15 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Starting livemeeting
[8:03:59 AM] * Jeroen_Pluimers is wondering why LiveMeeting is always asking for email/company. Does it suffer from Korsakov’s disease?
[8:07:34 AM] <Christine_Ellis> It asks because we tell it to.
[8:08:22 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> but it never remembers, even if you start it with the same session parametes.
[8:08:41 AM] <Christine_Ellis> live meeting doesn’t use cookies and doesn’t know who you are
[8:08:47 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> ok.
[8:09:29 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> can we do a quick audio test?
[8:12:48 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> I mean: fro my current Microphone; it works with sound recorder, but wonder if Live Meeting will get it today as well.
[8:15:55 AM] * Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – “Practical XML in Delphi“
[8:35:37 AM] <Peter_Wolf> a lot of memory = usually 10 timer more than the size of XML file bytes
[8:36:27 AM] <Peter_Wolf> … the size of XML file in bytes
[8:39:14 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Peter: that totally depends on what you use to read that XML. The MSXML and Internet Explorer are notorous memory hogs. But .NET is much more efficient on memory usage.
[8:40:15 AM] <Peter_Wolf> i ment MSXML which is default for most users
[8:41:17 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Peter: yup, that’s why I mentioned that as the first one. Most of the Win32 users will use MSXML, because that is the default for Win32.
[8:43:45 AM] * Jeroen_Pluimers warns: be carefull where you press ESC in IE: it can unload your chat window.
[8:47:29 AM] <Scott_Hollows> my brain hurts
[8:48:57 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Scott: let me know later on if I can make it more clear to you.
[8:50:27 AM] <Ryan_Ford> Will this presentation be available for download?
[8:51:05 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Ryan: yes it will.
[8:52:59 AM] <Ryan_Ford> Its so nice to run 8GB for development
[8:52:59 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Ryan: the session materials are available for download here: https://wiert.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/coderage-4-session-materials-available-for-download/ The replays will be available for download after the conference.
[8:58:56 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> My VIP room died.
[9:00:08 AM] <AbsaLootly> … you have to hate it when that happens…
[9:01:46 AM] <Ryan_Ford> What alternatives for MSXML are there for WIN32
[9:02:22 AM] <Peter_Wolf> it also takes forever to open really big XML files wh MSXML
[5:45:31 PM] <AbsaLootly> I saw one developer try to put an entire database in one xml file… it took several hours to load it.
[5:51:59 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> MSXML
[5:52:03 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> ADOM XML
[5:52:05 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Xerces
[5:52:56 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> That straight from the Delphi 2010 TXMLDocument.DOMVendor property
[5:53:25 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> XMLSpy can generate test ML
[5:54:16 PM] <Rich__> Thx
[5:54:51 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> https://newsgroups.codegear.com/message.jspa?messageID=150113
[5:55:17 PM] <Jim_Ferguson> Can you briefly describe JSON?
[5:55:27 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> http://blogs.embarcadero.com/adrian/2009/08/19/json-types-for-server-methods-in-datasnap-2010/
[5:56:02 PM] <Jim_Ferguson> what tool do you use transcribe your chat?
[5:56:23 PM] <Jon> it’s called a keyboard 
–jeroen
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CodeRage 4: session materials are available for download« The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/09
My CodeRage 4 session materials are available for download:
- Practical XML in Delphi
- Reliable Communication between Applications with Delphi and ActiveMQ
- Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs
CodeRage 4 is a free, virtual conference on Embarcadero technologies with a lot of Delphi sessions.
It is held from September 8 till 11, 2009, i.e. while I write this :-)
If you want to watch sessions live, be sure to register through LiveMeeting (the technology they use for making this all happen).
Let me know if you download, and what you are using the sample code for.
–jeroen
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CodeRage 4: sessions recorded; Delphi 2010 migration was a beeze; samples/slides will be uploaded soon
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/05
I just finished recording my CodeRage 4 sessions:
- Practical XML in Delphi
- Reliable Communication between Applications with Delphi and ActiveMQ
- Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs
CodeRage 4 is a free, virtual conference on Embarcadero technologies with a lot of Delphi sessions.
It is held from September 8 till 11, 2009, i.e. next week :-)
If you want to watch sessions live, be sure to register through LiveMeeting (the technology they use for making this all happen).
This week, I found some time do migrate all the sample projects to the release versions of Delphi Win32 2010 and Delphi Prism 2010.
Delphi Win32 2010 works like a charm: it is much faster and has a much smaller footprint than any other Galileo based IDE.
In fact, it feels almost as fast as the pre-Galileo based IDE’s.
With the added benefit that all the new features make me much more productive, not the least because it has not yet crashed on me this week once.
Crashing has been a frequent thing on me since Delphi 4 (maybe I should not even mention that number ), for most IDE’s at least a couple of times a week, so this is good.
Delphi Prism 2010 works really nice too, it is rock solid, and the language as some great features not found in other .NET languages.
But it still needs a tiny bit more polishing on the Visual Studio IDE Integration part.
There are a few things not as smoothly integrated as I’m used to in C# and VB .NET (for instance when adding assembly references; C# and VB.NET allow you to do that from multiple places in the IDE; Delphi Prism from only one).
I know it is nitpicking (the same holds for the Team Foundation System integration in the Visual Studio IDE: ever tried to add files or folders? There is only one icon that allows you to do it. Ever tried to move files or folders around? No way you can drag & drop, in fact you can move only 1 file or folder at a time, and then the folder tree leaves you at the target).
The Embarcadero folks have worked hard on developer productivity in the Delphi Win32 2010 IDE.
(Did I mention the F6 key? It is an awesome way of directly jumping into configuration dialogs a zillion levels deep.
Did I mention the Ctrl-D key? It instantly reformats your source code to your formatting settings).
So maybe it is now time to put some of that effort into the Prism side as well.
Back to my CodeRage sessions: the recordings are done, they will soon become available as downloads together with the samples/slides.
Keep watching :-)
–jeroen
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yet another update to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects « The Wiert Corner – Jeroen Pluimers’ irregular stream of Wiert stuff
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/07/16
I just found out that in my updates to TFS 2008 Folder Comparison Filter for both C# and Delphi projects somehow some backslashes (\) were missing.
Oops, sorry :-)
These backslashes are important when excluding directories: if omitted, TFS thinks you want to exclude a filename in stead of a directory name (see Folder Comparison Filters).
It might be due to the HTML pasting issue that I explained in Including formatted sourcecode in WordPress.
Anyway, here is the correct one that has the backslashes at the right places:
!*.pdb;!*.obj;!*.dll;!*.exe;!*.res;!*.resources;!*.cache;!*.ilk;!*.ncb;!obj\;!objd\;!bin\;!lib\;!*.local;!*.identcache;!*.dcu;!__history\;!*.dsk;!*.~*;!*.stat;!*.drc;!*.map;!*.csproj.user;!*.vbproj.user;!*.csproj.webinfo;!*.vbproj.webinfo;!*.suo;!*.bpl;!*.dcp;!*.log;!*.lck
(Note these all should be on one line when pasting them).
–jeroen
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