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While the Test Centre has been around for a little bit; according to the traffic nobody knows about it-g. The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities...

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns...

The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within...

Effective Project Management with VSTS Date and Time : 6:30pm - 7:30pm on Wednesday Feb 27, 2008 Topic : Project Management with VSTS Location : MS Redmond Campus - Building 118- Room Mt. Si Click here for a map of the location. Meeting Leader : Sumit...

Strange you can chat with somebody, sit next to them in meetings exchange A LOT of email with them and have no idea who they are. (The word i am probably looking for is oblivious) In either case I am exchanging email with "just" another one...

The VSX Team just released a resource centre for people building or looking for Visual Studio extensions: http://visualstudiogallery.com/

Bryan Krieger on the Team Foundation Server Team has started a TFS 2008 Setup and Administration FAQs . This FAQ will keep growing so you might want to book mark it!

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. (6 including the MVP's) In this post I am including my first cut of the Team Foundation Team System MVP's roll. I realize I am missing a bunch of people...

Question came in today: What's the definitive list of events that are supported in 2008? Are their any events that should be avoided? Bill Essary Architect on the TFS team was the first to jump on this: The event that we now use to communicate highwater...

Just found out that Mickey Gousset , Martin Woodward and Paul Hacker have created a radio program called -what else? Radio TFS

I have been with the team for 6 weeks and very embarrassed to just learn 4 of the Rossario feature Specifications have already been published. Thanks to Matthew Mitrik for both pointing this out -and publishing these specifications! The Four Specifications...

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. In this post I am including my first cut of the Visual Studio Team Test Team blog roll. Once i have all 6 teams done I am then going to update the horribly...

  Sorry for the echo chamber but this is pretty cool! Here’s the download page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=46B6BF86-E35D-4870-B214-4D7B72B02BF9&displaylang=en The 9 tools are packaged in 3 groups (because we...

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. In this post I am including my first cut of the Team Foundation Server team blog roll. Once i have all 6 teams done I am then going to update the horribly...

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. While not really a team there are bunch of us that do work across all 5 of the separate teams and in this post I am including my first cut of the Team...

Just noticed at about midnight Max Zuckerman posted an interview with Bill where this became a reality as Bill Gates announced " DreamSpark ", a program which allows all verified students to freely download Microsoft platform, design, and developer...

In getting to know my new team mates i found out that the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. Team Foundation Server Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Visual...

Been spending some time with the Canadians and just found out they are doing a bunch of testing WebCasts on the Team System 2008 Testing Features. New Testing Features in VSTS 2008 Feb 26, 08 1pm EST Mar 25, 08 1pm EST Apr 22, 08 1pm EST Visual Studio...

I have to apologize I am just now getting around to fixing the MSDN TeamSystem website bugs (like the links to the TeamSystem developer centers pointing to 2005 content and the 2008 Team Foundation Server site not discoverable). So if you have a TeamSystem...

From Buck Hodges Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of...

At code camp i mentioned build as one of the areas in TeamSystem with the most enhancements was Build- well now there is a new set of documentation for the Team build API to go with it! http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b...

One of our internal ALM specialists was asking for a sample on Associating a State Transition with an Action . While documentation does have some great information on things like Automating State Transitions there wasn't any samples. Turns out one of...

Customer question came in today: I am unable to add or remove accounts from the Service Accounts group after performing a domain move on TFS 2005 per the documentation. One symptom is that the TFSSERVICE account from their old domain is still present...

David Kean just pointed out that Jason Kresowaty (contributor to many projects) has written a tutorial on creating your own FXcop rules. http://www.binarycoder.net/fxcop/ (excerpt from the Tutorial) FxCop's capabilities encompass a great breadth...

Just Released: Gudiance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) expands the capabilities of Visual Studio by allowing architects and developers to run guidance packages, such as those included in...