adamga's WebLog

You know, in my job at Microsoft Canada, I get the pleasure of working with lots of really awesome partners and customers. It's sometimes nice to take a step back and review how really amazing some of our closest VSTS partners are... InCycle Software...

I get this question a lot, and I thought I'd post the stuff you need here. It's also part of the core documentation…     Managing and Resetting Service Accounts and Passwords See Also   Send Feedback   Team Foundation Server includes several...

Not sure how many people had issues with this, but it seems our webcast registration page was only showing new webcasts up to March 11th, so if you went to sign up for one more recently, you had no link with which to register... it's now fixed: This session...

This is nice.,.. a new set of VSTS/TFS VPC images, with the VSTS 2008 Hands-on labs is now live. The updated image expires December 2008, which gives folks a LOT of time to try/learn/test VSTS and TFS. As I mention on my webcasts , and in customer meetings...

Some neat updates have been posted to the VSTS "Rosario" specifications. In particular, the three new ones: Codename “TFS Bug Submission Portal” Power Tool for Team Foundation Server 2008 Send Mail from TFS Core Linking Work Item Tracking Check them out...

Well, spring is coming like a lamb this year. Still have snow on the ground (STILL) and got another dusting last night. Familiar sounds are abound. For my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, it's been a story of too little, too late. They've been excellent for...

Jelle's tool looks wicked ... a great utility when managing regular builds and trying to ensure high quality, particularly in continuous integration scenarios... BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily...

For some reason, the list below (thanks Jonathan ) was eluding me when I was creating my "OpenInBlend" context menu for Visual Studio 2008. I post it here for posterity, as well as hoping others find it easier to locate than I did: public readonly...

Well, it's a common request. You started out using the Trial edition of Team Foundation Server 2008, which goes 90 days, and you want to activate that version, so you call your reseller, purchase a copy of TFS. Now, you wait for your installation media...

So, I've been working on this YOUFirst stuff, and I'm constantly going back and forth between Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview , and I'm getting sick (lazy me) of going to the Visual Studio Tools menu to select my Open in Blend external tool entry....

So my team has a great initiative, called a YOUFirst day, which is a day reserved for us to do whatever we want to do, without interruption, to better our professional selves.. Everyone in the world can have one if they want one, it's not that unique...

It's nice to see this app make the light of day. I saw it a few months ago. InfusionDev did a great job in building the original version of this app in WPF, and now it's been ported to Sliverlight 2 beta... It really does a great job in helping people...

This is indeed wicked cool! A constant challenge for developers is designing in and verifying accessibility for their applications. Check out the site,as part of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/accessibility Very cool stuff, including the Accessibility...

Well, the big one is over, our Toronto 'Heroes Happen {Here}' launch event with Kevin Turner and customers and partners, helping us launch Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008... It was a great event! Fresh from the launch, the...

Rational Eyes now has a Visual Studio Team System partner offering for hosted TFS services in North America! TeamDevCentral was launched at the Heros Happen Here event in Toronto. Until April 1 st the set up fee is waived for the Starter/Pilot package...

One of our close Visual Studio Team System partners, here in Canada, Objectsharp is offering a 3-5 day Visual Studio Team System SharpVision ™ assessment that will help you create a customized adoption plan that is based on your organization’s unique...

Now until May 30th, 2008 , be eligible to receive a rebate of up to $515 CDN per license when you purchase qualifying Open Licenses for Microsoft Visual Studio Pro w/MSDN Pro or Microsoft Visual Studio Pro w/MSDN Premium. So, if you are Volume Licensing...

Just on a webcast where we didn't have the time to do a demo on VSTS Test Edition, and I mentioned my webcast series, which runs pretty much every week. The next session is on the new testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2008 Tester Edition... You can...

As the multitude of companies adopting TFS continues to grow, I'm getting more and more questions around customizing reports. TFS has an incredibly rich reporting infrastructure that provides great opportunities to customers... Here are a few resources...

The “DataDude” team is happy to announce the availability of the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. The Power Tools for 2008 contains all the functionality we shipped in 2005 plus: · Command line SQL Static Code Analysis...

Imaginet is a great partner here in Canada, doing a lot of great work around VSTS/Process... Looks like a great webinar... http://www.starshot.com/microsoft/Imaginet/feb28/index.html Learn how Visual Studio Team System 2008 helps all members of the development...

Wicked session being delivered from one of our top Team System partners here in Canada! Join us on February 22nd for a complimentary webinar hosted by ObjectSharp and Microsoft Canada. This webinar will provide you with line of sight as to how you can...

Now available on Codeplex, the newest version of the WCF Load Test tool, which was created by the VSTS Rangers.... It takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence...

This sounds like a great event! I love it when top-notch partners step up and give our customers the real deal! I would definately NOT miss this one (if you're in the big smoke) http://www.objectsharp.com/vs2008/default.aspx As beta testers and members...

One of our Canadian partners is running what looks like a great event on VSTS! Discover how Visual Studio 2008 can automate your Application Lifecycle Management processes with advanced tools for developers to rapidly design, build, and deliver connected...