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The debut of MVP TV August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) The debut of MVP TV All the Interaction of the MSDN Chats but with the richer experience of Live meeting and hosted by the recognized world technology leaders –the Visual Studio...

If you use Team Foundation Server and haven't seen the Setup and Admin FAQ .  Do yourself a favour and check it out -and book mark it!  Like I mentioned we are always updating this document and i have placed the latest updates below:  ...

VSTS & TFS 2008 training courses from Microsoft Learning Goods news for Adelaide. The worlds first “Beta” deliveries of the upcoming VSTS & TFS 2008 training courses from Microsoft Learning will be delivered in Adelaide starting September. This...

Very happy to announce that Gert and co just released CTP16, of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release. We are yet another step closer to reaching the finish line which is waiting for us at PDC in Oct of this year. This release...

Just a reminder t he debut of MVP TV is today August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) The debut of MVP TV August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) The debut of MVP TV All the Interaction of the MSDN Chats but with the...

Just found out from a good friend that the German Community folks did a set of 10 web casts covering TFS from End to End. So if you ever wanted to learn German and/or TFS this is certainly a great resource! http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/webcasts...

If you have users complaining about errors when editing or adding work items from Excel -this might be one way of help you capture what they were doing -and the cause.  For instance the error below was generated when attempting to publish a workitem...

Don’t forget next Tuesday, BIG will be having a session on "IIS7 for System Administrators" by Jorke Odolphi (Microsoft Web Platform Architect Evangelist). He will be presenting an overview (for System Administrators) about all the fantastic...

Microsoft Building 40, Steptoe Room #1450   Map Monday, August 11, 2008 Using Dynamic Languages in Silverlight People entrenched in Visual Studio all day [sometimes] forget how powerful a command-line and a text-editor can be. Remember, these...

Practically old news now but: ·  Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 (133mb | TFS Installation Guide ) · .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 ( full 231mb) · Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ( full iso (831mb) | bootstrapper exe | readme ) Make sure and check out what’s in...

The debut of MVP TV All the Interaction of the MSDN Chats but with the richer experience of Live meeting and hosted by the recognized world technology leaders –the Visual Studio Team System Microsoft MVP’s. In this opening session of MVP TV, please join...

Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008 The Team Foundation Installation Guide for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008, which includes Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Build, Team Foundation Server Proxy, and...

The Microsoft internal testers have put together a series of whiteboard sessions on testing the Windows development platform.  In this Whiteboard session we have Shozub Qureshi walking through testing WPF Controls. To view the video please see the...

Just going through the website stats and noticed the “How do i video have become really popular! I have included the top* 5 video’s below!   How Do I: Automate Team Build? How Do I: Create and Manage Workspaces Using Team Foundation Server Control...

The Microsoft internal testers have put together a series of whiteboard sessions on testing the Windows development platform.  In this Whiteboard session we have Matt Galbraith walking through a great video on Testing WPF Browser Applications. Check...

The next Team Test Special Interest group will take place on Monday August 18 th from 3-5:00PM in the Enatai Room in the Microsoft Building in Lincoln Square in Bellevue (15 th floor - 10401 NE 8th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, map ).  This session will...

  Anthony and William are running the State Finals for the Demo’s Happen Here Competition…I am guessing a 2.5 hour demo fest with those two running the show is bound to be a hoot!   Date:         ...

Just posted another Channel9 Screen cast: The Microsoft internal testers have put together a series of whiteboard sessions on testing the Windows development platform.  In this Whiteboard session we have Michael Hunter interviewing the Windows Presentation...

I just started playing with Hyper V images for the Team System team and noticed the directory of our primary image contains 48 gigabytes of AVHD files!   Looking it up on Technet it turns out AVHD files are Snapshots….Fair Enough how do i merge...