If you’re looking for even more ways to get pinged by your build server, check out release v0.1 of BuildTweeter on CodePlex.  read more ...

I just discovered the Partner group offers free VSTS training on a regular basis. Tomorrows training is on Version Control.
To access the training you first need to register at:
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When you do a "Get Latest" in TFS, there are three requests that the server processes: read more ...

Well, I let it happen again :(. It's been over two months since my last report on this and my blog has gone sadly quiet in general. As I'd mentioned before, it's been an unbelievably busy summer but I think I'm finally coming out of it. With luck you'll see quite a few posts this week and then my stream of 3 or 4 a week resume. read more ...

Here are a couple of interesting webcasts my colleagues are presenting: read more ...

Der VSTS Information Day ist der einfachste Weg, bei lecker Cafe und Kuchen, an einem Tag sich über Visual Studio Team System zu informieren,  read more ...

Conchango released version 2 of their Scrum for Team System template several months ago. Simon Bennett from Conchango mentioned about the different utilities that their team built along the way. One of them is the "Work Item Migration utility".  read more ...

On Saturday, we released an updated version of Team System Web Access.  You will find the download here: read more ...

I should probably listen to the whole episode before blogging this :) DNR Episode 373 was just posted, and it features Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talking about all the goodness in TFS 2008 read more ...

I've seen a rash of reports lately with people having problems with TFS when configured to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). There are certain extranet scenarios when you need to configure TFS this way. The problem has been isolated to a change in Windows 2003 SP1. read more ...

VSTS & TFS 2008 training courses from Microsoft Learning
Goods news for Adelaide. The worlds first “Beta” deliveries of the upcoming VSTS & TFS 2008 training courses from Microsoft Learning will be delivered in Adelaide starting September. This is a great opportunity to check out these great new course offerings and increase your knowledge of Team System
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Microsoft has a long history of introducing new features to shipped products, often under the banner of Power Toys or Power Tools. read more ...

I've been remiss in my blogging responsibilities for the past few weeks - sorry about that. Between summer vacations, work travel and a new power tool I'm working on, I've just haven't been able to find any time to blog. In my job, I don't get to spend a ton to time coding - too many other things to do.  read more ...

The annual agile conference hosted by Agile Alliance is being held in Toronto this year between Aug 4 th and 8 th ( http://www.agile2008.org ).  read more ...

Gautier et Michel, deux stagiaires de l’équipe marketing Visual Studio, ont créé une nouvelle page Visual Studio Team System sur le site MSDN. read more ...

Teste o nível de maturidade do ciclo de desenvolvimento da sua organização através do ALM assessment e faça o planeamento do dimensionamento certo dos recursos de que precisa.  read more ...

O Scrum ganhou um espaço nobre na gestão actual. Uma área do Saber com uma expansão imensa e um valor directo na eficácia e eficiência na gestão actual de processos.  read more ...

Last piece of powertool I worked on before leaving TFS is the integrated tool to easily create notification alerts for WorkItem tracking, source control and build items. It is released and part of power tools now.  read more ...

StyleCop est un outil d'analyse du code source créé en interne par Microsoft. Maintenant, vous pouvez le télécharger sur MSDN Code Gallery.
Il travaille directement sur le code source. L'analyse statique de Visual Studio Team System Development Edtion dérivée de FXCop travaille sur les fichiers compilés donc les résultats ne sont pas les mêmes.
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From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it provides an easy way to share information, facilitate collaboration, manage content, and implement workflow within enterprises. We use it daily here on our team to store documents, and share project details.  read more ...

There is a Management Pack (MP) for TFS currently in beta. This is referred to in Brian Harry's blog entry. This will eventually be posted to the catalog of Management Packs on the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) catalog of MPs when sufficient beta testing and feedback has been completed.  read more ...

Just had the netherlands VSTS Usergroup president drop me a note and let me know i had missed them! read more ...

Normally to reset your client's view of a TFS server from Offline to Online, you would 'Go Online' with a solution bound to that server. The server's offline state is reset as part of this operation read more ...

Today, I'm finally getting around to working on something I've been wanting to do for a while. Rosario is a big release with a ton of great stuff and I've been thinking for a while that I really need to work on figuring out how to articulate all of that value in a way that people can really understand and be excited about.  read more ...

We are working on improving the TFS SDK to make it easier for people who want to write extensions. There are many areas for improvement so it's hard to pick a place to start. We chose, for the first project, a sample VS add-in that demonstrates a pretty wide array of ways in which you can integrate with TFS, inside VS. It includes the sample VS add-in infrastructure, examples of invoking the TFS API, querying selection and receiving events. read more ...

How to setup Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using a content database upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 after a Team Foundation Server 2005 to 2008 Upgrade read more ...

If you’re interested in learning about Team Foundation Server, I’ll have a gentle introduction to the product on Friday @ 1pm Eastern Time. read more ...

We are approaching the release date of our next release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. We are targeting to have it available in about 3 weeks. As I've mentioned before this is a smaller Power Tools release than we typically have done. This is because so much of our effort has been on getting TFS 2008 SP1 done.  read more ...

Chuck Sterling, our Team System community lead, has posted a copy of his monthly update on community activities to his blog. In the past, these updates have been only for internal consumption but,  read more ...

In questo post vediamo com’è possibile collegarsi a Team Foundation Server con Visual Basic 6.0 utilizzando il Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider (Microsoft Source Code Control Interface). read more ...

If you are using Telelogic DOORS for your requirements, please have a look at the new integration with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server Integration This Telelogic DOORS integration read more ...

A Multi-Value control is one which accepts multiple values (duh!). This is useful if for example a bug belongs to multiple components. read more ...

Microsoft Learning are due to release two new courses on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in the next month or so and a fellow Australian and Team System MVP – Anthony Borton is the guinea pig to deliver them in Australia. read more ...

With the announcement of the release of the new Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, I've seen a surge of questions about TFS support for Hyper-V. We have tested TFS running in a Hyper-V virtual machine. It works well and is officially supported. read more ...

One of the very little known tricks when dealing with Workspace mappings in TFS Source Control is that you can actually copy & paste working folders. This can be useful if you need to share workspace mappings between team members. You can just copy and paste them between developers. read more ...

Before I joined MSFT I hadn’t had any exposure to Team Foundation Server Proxy. As you know from Brian’s blog post on the internal dogfood TFS deployment here there are a number of proxy servers deployed – India, Singapore, Europe, North Carolina. There are also a number of proxies deployed in Redmond to ease the load off the main server from builds. I’m quickly getting up to speed on what impact a proxy has and how it works. read more ...

The first step should always be “Am I licensed for it?”. This is something you’ll have to determine for yourself but the answer is usually yes. Refer to the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Licensing White Paper for all the details. Here’s an except: read more ...

It is not possible through the Work Item Object Model (API) or otherwise to move a work item between two team projects. The reason for this is that each team project maintains it’s own definition of work item types and they could be different. read more ...

In my current and previous lives, one of the problems I get involved in is when people can’t connect to Team Foundation Server for some reason. read more ...

As more and more people adopt Team Foundation Server around the world, teams are finding that they’re out-growing their initial hardware. Then what happens is the IT Infrastructure guys say that there’s no more room in the existing data center.  read more ...

Here's some great info, if you are in the process of evaluating or trying to bring Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) into your organization. These links provide great support when you are creating a cost benefit analysis. All of my ISV's have gone through this process in order to get management to approve a new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. read more ...

In Team Build 2008 there is a property called GetVersion. Here’s what the description from Aaron Hallberg’s blog says about it: read more ...

Although TFS Proxy is supposed to run as by a service user accont, however, there is a way to get around it. read more ...

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