Carl's musings

Visual Studio Team System - Finding changes between labelled versions

I recently discovered that Team System doesn't include an easy solution for finding out exactly what changed between two labelled versions of a product.  After some conversations with the Team System product managers (see this thead on the Microsoft forums), I decided to write a simple command-line tool to find the differences between two labelled versions.

Rather than pasting a bunch of code, I've attached a VS2005 solution for the tool.  Give it a try - if you have any questions about it (or find a bug!), just post a comment to this blog entry.

Quick links to existing articles

Here are links to a couple of articles that I've written for CodeProject.  I've got some ideas for a few more articles - hopefully I'll find time to squeeze them in during the summer.

Boyer-Moore string matching in C# http://www.codeproject.com/cs/algorithms/BoyerMooreSearch.asp

File System Enumerator in C# http://www.codeproject.com/cs/files/FileSystemEnumerator.asp

Books in my review queue

Here are a few of the books that are in my review queue.  I'll try to give each the time it deserves over the next few months.  While I haven't yet read most of these books cover to cover, my initial impression is that they're are great books.

Practical Perforce http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/practicalperforce/index.html

Monad http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/index.html

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/avalon/index.html

Programming ASP.NET 3rd Ed. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet3/index.html

ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook, 2nd Ed. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnetckbk2/index.html

Active Directory 3rd Ed. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actdir3/index.html

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowsssckbk/index.html

Customizing the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6895.asp

Professional .NET 2.0 Generics http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764559885.html (this one was written by a buddy of mine).

Professional .NET Framework 2.0 http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764571354.html (I was the technical editor for this book)

My second first post

After a bit of a false start, here's my second attempt at a first blog posting.  Apparently something wasn't installed correctly before as many options weren't working.  I guess that what happens when you install beta software :)

Over the coming months I hope to write about a variety of topics.  First and foremost will be software development, with the occasional diversion into politics or maybe even religion - we'll see!

I have a huge stack of books that deserve book reviews on this site.  You should see those start to roll out over the course of this summer.

I'll also provide links to articles I've written, or other articles that I come across that might be of interest to my readers. 

Stay tuned...