Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.1

How to upgrade an on premises Team Foundation Server to version 2015 update 2.1 Recently I had the task of upgrading our on premises TFS solution from TFS 2013 Update 5 to TFS 2015 Update 2.1. This article discusses the upgrade steps, how long the process took, as well as some of the pitfalls with …

Working with Sass in Visual Studio 2015

Introduction Sass is the perfect modern solution for maintaining many large complex CSS files, and keeping the CSS code DRY; with many developers using Sass now to overcome these maintenance problems. If you have never heard of Sass and want to learn more then look at the sections below. The official Sass website describes Sass as: Sass …

Speed up .NET development with the CodeDOM

How to speed up .NET development using the CodeDOM and Reflection I recently worked on an ASP.net AngularJS/WebAPI hybrid project which had around 45 models linked to SQL Server tables using Entity Framework (nothing too unusual there); and the requirements in the product backlog was to create files for each. I am not talking 45 different files here.. I am …

16 essential free resources for web developers

Which free resources do I keep going back to as a web developer or designer? I thought about that question a few days ago.. "Which resources do I keep going back to as a web developer?"... regardless of which web project I am working on. I have listed below the 16 I seem to always …