Free download of both standalone Visual Studio Team Foundation clients to connect to any CodePlex project. Read Koby’s blog for more details.

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The TFS Administration Tool allows a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server® (henceforth referred to as TFS ) administrator to quickly add users to all three platforms utilized by TFS: TFS, Sharepoint, and SQL Reporting Services (RS), all through one common interface. The tool also allows administrators to change the current permissions on any of the three tiers, identify any errors, and view all of the users and their permission sets across TFS, Sharepoint, and SQL RS.

This tool was created by the Developer Solutions team in Developer Division at Microsoft. 

Once you have selected your TFS server and Team Project, you can perform a number of tasks to manage the users and user permissions in your Team Project, including:

1. Add a new user to the TFS Server, Sharepoint server, and SQL Reporting Services server, with default permissions based upon your selected TFS role and the XML Mappings File included in the program folder (RoleConfig.xml).
2. Change permissions for an individual user on any of the three platforms (TFS, Sharepoint, SQL RS)
3. Select multiple roles for an individual user on Sharepoint or SQL RS
4. Make multiple changes at once, and then save all of the changes at once
5. View the action logs to view the results of your changes (successful changes and errors)

[Download The TFS Administration Tool ]

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• Using GC Efficiently Part 1 Maoni explains the cost of things so you can make good decisions in your managed memory usage.Maoni focuses on Workstation Garbage Collection ,then talks about stuff that s different for Server Garbage Collection and when you should use which.
• Using GC Efficiently Part 2In this article Maoni talks about different flavors of Garbage Collection, the design goals behind each of them and how they work differently from each other so you can make a good decision of which flavor of Garbage Collection you should choose for your applications.
• Using GC Efficiently Part 3 In this article Maoni talks about pinning and weak references stuff related to Garbage Collection handles.
• Using GC Efficiently Part 4In this article Maoni talks about things you want to look for when you look at the managed heap in your applications to determine if you have a healthy heap.

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If you’re a developer, I recommend to check out this site because there’s a lot of APIs for HTML, XML, CSS, MySQL, ActionScript, Java, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and other Web technologies.

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This release adds significantly to the LINQ functionality previously available. Highlights of this release include:

• Productivity enhancements via DLINQ designer and debugger support within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.
• Support for a broader range of development scenarios thanks to new databinding and ASP.NET support.
• Ability to integrate LINQ with existing code through features like LINQ over DataSet and DLINQ improvements including inheritance
• Feedback driven features including deep stored procedure support, since the earlier CTP.

The installer contains:

• LINQ libraries
• VB and C# language enhancements
• Visual Studio IDE additions
• Samples (VB or C#)
• LINQ Overview
• Standard Query Operators white paper
• Getting Started papers
• DLinq overview
• DLinq Hands-on-labs
• XLinq Overview
• XLinq Hands-on-labs
• References and language specifications

Get Linq May 2006 CTP

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