Today we released the Japanese version of the Team System Web Access Power Tool. Long ago, I announced that we would be releasing localized version of TSWA with the VS 2008 products. Well, today it is becoming a reality. Over the next few weeks, we will...

One of the most common areas for questions around TFS is using the TFS automated build system. How do I build .NET 1.1 apps with TFS 2005/TFS 2008? How do I build VS 2005 solutions with TFS 2008? How do I customize the build number Team Build generates...

We've gotten quite a few requests from customers over the past couple of months for more information comparing each of the VS 2008 product offerings. We have just published a pretty massive feature comparison to help you pick the product that is right...

Here's a nice blog series I ran across on requirements management with Team System, Team Foundation Server and some 3rd party products. We are also working on a whitepaper to provide an overview of this. http://blogs.msdn.com/slange/archive/2007/11...

It's nice to see that people in the "real world" are seeing benefits from our efforts to improve performance in VS 2008. http://blogs.conchango.com/johnrayner/archive/2008/01/28/Design_2D00_time-perf-improvements-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx Brian

The popular TFS add-on for administering permissions across TFS, SQL Server Reporting Services and Sharepoint has been updated to support TFS 2008.  The tool, call TFSAdmin, is available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin/Wiki/View...

Yesterday someone forwarded me a link to a Minnesota user group presentation on using TFS and Teamprise in a mixed .NET and Java shop . Being, admittedly, somewhat biased, I thought it was a terrific presentation on their experiences and felt is was worth...

Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.  I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.  When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts - Elicitation...

Back around the Holidays I promised 3 "surveys" but I actually only described 2 of them. I've finally gotten around to writing up the 3rd one. In our next release, we are building a slew of new features designed to make managing branching and merging...

Update: With Team Foundation Server 2010, you no longer need to download and run the TFSVersionDetection.exe tool as this functionality is baked into the Team Foundation Server administration console. S ee this post for more detail: http://blogs.msdn...