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MSDN Unleashed and ArcReady

The next set of Microsoft free events in the area will be on Oct. 7th. Check out the announcement on CINNUG’s blog: http://cinnug.org/blog/archive/2008/08/30/arcready-and-msdn-unleashed-events-on-oct-7th.aspx

PSS #3: Using PS to help get a list of changes from TFS

My PowerShell Snippet this time comes from a little frustration I had with TFS this week. I wanted to find a list of all the files that had changed within a branch. Through the UI I couldn’t find out how to get that list easily. I could go to the top level folder in the source control window for the project I was interested in and get the history, but it would show me a list of all the changesets.

Simulating Email

Keith Brown on the Pluralsight Blog has a great example of how to simulate email functionality so that you aren’t hitting a real SMTP service. Just by using the configuration file you can drive the method which the System.Net.Mail uses to “send” the email. For production and system wide integration testing this should be your SMTP delivery (network); however, for local development you can switch to SpecifiedPickupDirectory. This just dumps a .