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We are hiring and here are some reasons for you to come and work with me at Nintex So first things first. You are asking if this is a marketing email? answer is yes. I am expanding my team and I am writing this post to convince smart developers like yourself to come and work with us at Nintex. It’s me writing this and these are my own view points. No one from the company has asked me to write this (in fact no one knows that I am writing this. not even HR). ...

How to delete a team project from tfs online tfs.visualstudio.com unfortunately we cannot delete a team project from visual studio or online control panel. to delete a team project you need to use the command line utility. run visual studio tools command prompt tools. make sure you open the x86 version as x64 version wouldnt work. and then run this command: tfsdeleteproject /collection:https://YOUR-ACCOUNT-URL.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection “Your project name” if required this will prompt you to login with a Microsoft Account. ...

TFS.VisualStudio.com TF30063: You are not authorized to access Collection if you are trying to connect to team foundation server online through visual studio and you get unauthorized excetion. first make sure you have got access to that account and if you do then it most probably must be because of a cached microsoft account which does not have access to the collection. to fix this: Open visual studio using a visual studio built in browser, navigate to http://tfs.visualstudio.com Sign out of the exisiting logged in account Log in using the microsoft account which has got access to the collection and you are good to go. Written by vahid ...

How to host website in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine How to host website in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Well as you know Microsoft is now offering IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) services through the new Virtual Machine role. It’s quite good and easy to get up and running with it but. In matter of minutes you can have your windows or linux virtual machine ready to be used. You can shut them off or backup their VHDs. ...

Challenges in switching to Agile/Scrum there is no doubt that agile practices specially scrum is pretty popular these days. This is not because scrum is something funky to have but rather because it really works and works very well. i know what you are saying now… you would be saying but hold on i have seen some companies/projects which started to switch to scrum but they all ended up in tears and had to leave it half way. ...

Cool Extension for Visual Studio 2010 i have been using Power Commands for Visual Studio for a long time. but i had never noticed that it’s a got very good feature for automatically formatting the document on save. not only it can format the document, but also it can remove and sort using statements in the files when you save them. it this really good for me because we use stylecop to enforce coding standard within our dev team. ...

How to configure drill down report in Nintex Analytics 2010 Time to time we need to be able to connect couple of report to make an end to end usage story of reports. Fortunately Nintex Analytics 2010 fully support drill down functionality and most of the out of the box report are configured to drill down to a related report. but if you need to configure your own custom report to drill down to a report, don’t worry it’s quite easy in NA2010. ...

How to flag system/image file types in Nintex Analytics 2010 When you are after some statistics in SharePoint, say number of user activities, you want to exclude activities on certain file types. For example we normally are not interested on activities on the webpart or xml file but we are rather interested in activities on docx or xlsx files. Nintex Analytics 2010 enables to mark the files that you normally want to exclude from your reports as either System file or Image file. it then gives you parameters in some reports to exclude activities on the file types which are flagged as system or image files from the result. ...

How to create a new report in Nintex Analytics 2010 in this video I show you how to create a new report in Nintex Analytics 2010. I’ll show you: how to select a dataset for your report* how to configure report parameters* How set the report name, description, icon and other properties* How to customize chart visualization* How to customize table visualization Written by vahid Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM ...