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Friday evening i was talking to Stephanie Saad then later Anthony Borton on the topic of Team Foundation Server Process Templates wondering how many Team Foundation Server Templates are out in the wild. Looks like Richard Hundhausen @ http://widgets.accentient...

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...

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!

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...

One of the questions on the alias today was "How to automatically populate the comments section" Ed Hintz (of the MSSCI provider fame) posted this code as a sample: IPendingCheckin m_pendingCheckin; Initialize(IPendingCheckin pendingCheckin...

In our Visual Studio documentation we stated to get round-trip engineering documentation you needed Visio for Enterprise Architects. This is not the case in Visual Studio 2008 as this feature comes will versions of the Visual Studio 2008 Product family...

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...

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...

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...

Huge congratulations to Gert and the rest of the “DataDude” team for releasing the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. The Power Tools for 2008 contains all the functionality they shipped in 2005 plus: · Command line...

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...

Received a question today from somebody trying to upgrade their Team Foundation Server 2005 from trial to the full version. In this case they are trying to use their volume license. Included below is the table for upgrading Team Foundation Server (TFS...

A question came in today on one of the distribution lists: "What is our recommendation for customer's that want a requirement authoring tool with their VSTS 2008 deployment?" Lori Lamkin happened to have to top 8 memorized (i think she's been...

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...

This morning at about 1:00am Jelle Druyts noticed the Installation Guide for Team System 2008 was missing in action. Not certain what Jelle was doing reading a Team Foundation Server installation guide at 1:00am but the world is once again a safe place...

If you use the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool like me you will be very happy to know the contributors just released version 1.3 -and it now works with Team Foundation Server and VSTS 2008!  http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases...

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...

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...

Pretty cool tool. I like the email referral functionality and the reading list -just wished the reader indexed outside MSDN Magazine and went back further than 2007.   http://windowsclient.net/wpf/starter-kits/sce.aspx The MSDN Reader allows...

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...

I was trolling through the downloads and happen to run across this: Using Visual Studio Team System 2005 to Measure Software Code Stability at Microsoft MS IT partnered with Microsoft Research to create a VSTS 2005 extension that counts lines...

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...

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...