Ed Blankenship

Development Community Volunteer Week

I didn't get to read my RSS feeds yet today but I got a hint to go read them and I discovered that Chuck wrote a nice blog post about volunteer work and me .  I guess the cat's out of the bag now :)  Thanks Chuck for the kudos - I really appreciate Read More...

Grouping Conditional Clauses in Work Item Queries

So, I came across something pretty interesting when I was making a work item query today that I've wondered for a while.  I can't believe I just came across it today. OK - Just for some background on what I was trying to do:  I wanted to get Read More...

New Team System MVP

Speaking of Team System , I found out last week that I have been officially inducted into the Team System MVP group .  Earlier this year, I was awarded as an MVP in the Client Application Development competency.  Don't get me wrong, I still Read More...

Enter the Coolest Team System Gadget Contest!

Fellow Team System MVP Mike Azocar has announced an awesome new contest to stir up the Team System tools ecoystem.  There are some really cool prizes so far including a free license for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 w/ MSDN Premium subscription Read More...

Speaking about Team Build 2008 at the Dallas VSTS User Group

I'll be speaking on July 1, 2008 at the Dallas Visual Studio Team System User Group . Starts at 6 PM.  This is going to be a really exciting session for me personally and I love that we have a big block of time to get into some really fun Team Build Read More...

April 2008 CTP Available for Visual Studio Team System "Rosario"

It's finally available!  Seriously - this CTP has quite a bit of features that they have added and you can start to see that VSTS is and will continue to be a strong if not the best ALM offering.  The new features are added to Head over to Jeff Read More...

Visual Studio Team System Rosario TAP

I'm really excited because the last three days I've been in Redmond, WA attending the TAP briefing for the next version of Visual Studio Team System code named " Rosario ."  All I can say is WOW - I'm completely impressed with the work Read More...

New Position

Ever since I started at Infragistics , I had been working in the User Experience Group (under the Evangelism umbrella) primarily with WPF & WinForms.  As some of you know, I wasn't too fond with WPF at the beginning :) but now I love it.  Read More...

Uninstalling TFS Power Tools on Vista

So there is a huge problem with uninstalling the TFS Power Tools if you have them installed on Windows Vista. This becomes particularly a problem when you want to upgrade the TFS Power Tools (which I was trying to do to the version just released a few Read More...

Come Hear Us! - ReMIX 2007 in Boston

Grant Hinkson (our Director of Visual Design at Infragistics) and I will be doing our talk "Meeting in the Middle - Designer/Developer Interaction in WPF." It looks like we have the first breakout session on Tuesday, October 9 at 9:00 AM. Take a look Read More...

Visual Studio Team System Web Access Available

Formerly known as Teamplain Web Access for Team System, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access has been released and freely available as a download to licensed customers of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Microsoft recently purchased devBiz Read More...

MSF Agile Quality Indicators Report for Conchango Scrum Process Template

So, if you didn't know I'm a huge fan of the Quality Indicators report in the MSF for Agile Software Development process template in Team Foundation Server. Here at Infragistics , we're evaluating the Conchango Scrum Process Template for Team System and Read More...