BizSpark

First off, I would like to thank some people for helping us get into the BizSpark program for technical start ups.  You can find information about it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark.

Microsoft was a great help in pointing me in the right direction.  Thanks to Mithun Dhar and Anad Iyer for their help.   I would also like to thank Michael Baum of Magenic (http://www.magenic.com) for his help .  Magenic was the only listed Network Partner that I had previously spoken with.  Upon Microsoft’s recommendation to work with someone local, we contacted Richard Hundhausen, Team System MVP, of Accentient (http://www.accentient.com). He was our sponsor and responded very quickly to our request to enter the program. 

Thank you Richard!

For those of you interested … BizSpark provides start-up technical businesses with support resources, visibility, and a subscription to MSDN Premium with Expression Blend.  The software package is amazing.  It will provide our company with a head start and the technology we need to sell Microsoft based solutions with minimal out of pocket expense. 

Team System

Team System is awesome and terrifying at the same time.  There are a lot of moving parts that need to align perfectly.  I spent a fair amount of time trying to track down issues.  If you are using Team Foundation Server on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, you have to do a weird merge of the install disk and Service Pack 1.  Once you get it up and running, it is neat but we have ran into lot of issues. 

I still cannot see reports remotely through Visual Studio.  I could at one point in time after re-applying service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 , but after a reboot that functionality no longer worked.  All in all, it is a great product.  We plan to use it to get things moving in a more focused direction.  We already created a TFS project for the family (I love data points).

I am pretty sure my issues are related to permissions/security.  It seems ok if you use the local admin login via the web for reports, but it will not work with my current domain login.  If anyone else has experience this issue, please share your insight.

Code Happy,

Bill

So I am not a big political fan.  I happened to turn on CNN and saw and interview with someone that was a 3D projection.  Is this real?  If so I wanna be a hologram please.

Check out here to watch some of the available videos of sessions from the PDC.

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

JQuery

There is a new jquery file download that will give you intellisense in Visual Studio 2008.  You can download it from here:

http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/downloads/detail?name=jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js

Now lets figure out how to get it to work.  I did not see instructions on the download page. 

NOTE: It seems that if the file exists in the same directory, intellisense will work.  I excluded them from my project and still was able to use intellisense.

This is how I did it.  I added the vsdoc file to the js folder.  I added the jquery java script file to the project.  Then I added the

/// <reference path="jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js" />

to my external java script file.  The articles posted below also post information how to do it inline.

That was not so hard.  Here is some interesting reading on it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/10/28/rich-intellisense-for-jquery.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/11/06/jscript-intellisense-a-reference-for-the-reference-tag.aspx

Happy Coding,

Bill