This week, we added a new version selector for the default view of the MSDN library.  I’ve seen numerous cases in recent months of people being confused by finding help topics for the wrong version of VS and not realizing it.  This new selector...

Just recently, the Visual Studio Rangers published a new guidance document on best practices for using database projects in Visual Studio 2010. The guidance focuses on: Solution and Project Management Source Code Control and Configuration Management...

Recently a question came up through a customer about exactly what permission were needed to SQLServer in order to install/configure Team Foundation Server. One of the developers put together a list of exactly what the configuration process does to SQL...

Today, we released the final update to the Lab Management features for the Visual Studio 2010 product family.  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post with a bunch of details on the Lab Management capabilities and also explained recent licensing changes...

Yesterday, I wrote a post on a new upcoming PowerTool to make backing up and restoring your TFS server easier than ever.  The post focused on a TFS Basic install that had no associated Sharepoint or Reporting data.  The great news is that if...

Backing up and restoring a TFS server can be daunting.  There are potentially a lot of services and a lot of steps.  As soon as we shipped TFS 2010, I knew we had to do something to improve it and we began talking about how we were going to...

We’ve just released 3 packages that will enable you to start with one of the 3 base TFS 2010 Process Guidance sets and customize it and deploy it to your installation.  Read Allen’s blog post on a way to do this with WebMatrix. The download links...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short post about the move of CodePlex from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 and some of the benefits you’ll see from that. Today, I want to drill a bit deeper into the infrastructure changes that went along with it and some...

Just recently, a new tool called Scrat was released.  It enables migrating artifacts from HP Quality Center to TFS.  It is the most comprehensive tool I know of, handling Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, History and Links between...

We’ve just released a new version of the TFS Integration Platform.  This is the first “official, finished” release that contains the new synchronization architecture and adaptors for: TFS 2008 TFS 2010 ClearCase ClearQuest File System Previous versions...