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An introduction to using the hot-swap technique to build thread safe collection and thread safe source code in general.

Learn how to build applications and plug-ins that interoperate with data from OneNote 2007 and 2010 using the OneNote Object Model library freely available on CodePlex. Andy Gray demonstrates how easy it is to integrate information from OneNote notebooks, sections and pages into smart client and Web apps.

Workspace Template Manager for Team Build to intelligently update workspace information at the right time across builds in Team Foundation Server

In Team Build 2008, while writing a build definition we need to hard-code a build agent attached to this build definition. In cases, when the builds are queued automatically depending on its triggers, it gets queued to this hard-coded build agent. This raises a major problem that there are multiple free / not-busy build agents dedicated for the team project but still there are multiple builds queued on a single build agent waiting for their turn till the other builds get completed. So we need some load balancing mechanism between the build agents, which is technically called as Build Controller in TFS 2010. But there are no direct ways to work out with this challenge with Team Build 2008. This article shows how to balance the load between build agents in Team Build 2008.