Despite loving the book snowcrash I am not a huge fan of Second Life – but I am sure having a VSTS User Group in Second life will make all the difference in the world! For more information please see: http://www.tsug-ve.com/   TSUG VE for Second Life will meet online every month. We will target...

I just found out last night that our partner group has done a great job of pulling together lots of VSTS. While the training is targeted partners/ISV’s it does not require you to be partner just to register.  Also despite some of the training is 2005 it is still very relevant! -I am watching the...

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 Team Explorer   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

A couple of people asked about getting Amir's presentation from the Testers SIG Tuesday... Well Amir has graciously posted it to their site for your convenience: http://www.netobjectives.com/files/events/download/AcceptanceTesting_0807TestersSig.pdf Thanks Again Amir!

Yesterday at the Testers SIG we had packed agenda and a packed house! Starting with an introduction to testing in Agile development by Amir at Net Objectives , did a walk through of recording a manual test, taking the recording and turning it into a coded test and finally adding additional functionality...

At Tomorrows .NET Usergroup meeting i want to demo a couple of the new features of Visual Studio Team System Test Edition . Namely the ability for the Web Test Recorder to Record AJAX requests and JavaScript pop-ups. To do this i needed to find an Ajax enabled site and an easy way to find a way of showing...

If you wanted to know more about Database Testing make sure and check out Andy Leornards show with Greg Low @ http://www.sqldownunder.com on Testing with Team Sytem Database Edition

Every month i send out a community update to the entire VSTS Product Group. Jeff has mentioned a couple times i should publish it to the web and I am finally getting to it (only taken me 6 months!) Please let me know if this is of value and i will continue publishing them! I know I am starting to sound...

I have had a couple of folks point out Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is no longer on MSDN Downloads. Turns out it "is" still on MSDN Downloads - we have just moved it to where nobody would think to look and just to make it more challenging removed it from the MSDN search....Sorry...

Richard has been busy!  Make sure and check out his two new How do i videos: How Do I: Manage Test Results and Test Results Files? How Do I: Make Batch Edits to Work Items?   While on the topic of testing i would also recommend Richards: How Do I: Easily Bind Data to .NET Unit Tests?

I am updating the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition website asap but in case you haven't seen the news the DBPro team just released their June CTP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en    

Hakan Eskici and TFS team just released a CTP for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access. Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 (CTP) What's new in TSWA 2008 SP1 Download the CTP for TSWA 2008 SP1 Work Item Web Access (WIWA) 2008 (CTP) What's WIWA? Download the CTP for WIWA 2008

I have not had a chance to read it yet but looks very good! Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 can be used to assist a business in collecting information that concerns its software-development practices, which may be of use towards compliance...

A month ago i did a series of of blog posts with the teams blogs: blog roll: Visual Studio Team System MVP's blog roll: Visual Studio Team Test Team blog roll: Visual Studio Team System Team blog roll: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team blog roll: Visual Studio Team System Development Team blog...

As many people have noticed the current Visual Studio Team System 2008 VPC expires tomorrow (April 1st). For those of you relying on this VPC for many activities (like myself) it will come as a great relief, we have uploaded a newer version with many enhancements including an updated Hands On Lab: ...

Richard Hundhausen just finished another Team System "How do I" video -this one on a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 the ability to compare two profiler reports. Video Downloads WMV (Zip) | WMV | iPod | MP4 | 3GP | Zune | PSP Audio Downloads AAC | WMA | MP2 | MP3 | MP4 Code Downloads Visual...

Long ago i learned you really don't get to know your peers/peeps/coworkers until you spend an evening with them and their family. Living this ideal made for a busy week last week as i had one my MVP's stay with us, then had Beth Massi and Sara Ford over to the house for dinner. During the course of the...

Big congratulations to Mike Azocar and the rest of the LWS team fabcamara , steven_borg and wschaub for releasing the alpha version of Light Weight Scrum 2.1 ! www.codeplex.com/vstsscrum

This will be my very first Team System chat! Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions...

Just released the Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System White Paper .  The document does a great job of walking through several of the partners and the strengths of their offerings.  Can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EEF7BB41-C686...

In this episode Martin and Paul take a look at the December '07 release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools , and discuss how they help you get more out of Team Foundation Server. Also check out there new website: http://www.radiotfs.com/

TeamDevCentral just launched the first hosted offering of Team Foundation Server in North America. Until April 1 st the set up fee is waived for the Starter/Pilot package which includes up to 5 users.  They have already deployed Microsoft Team Foundation Server so you don’t have to –...

Playing with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition i ran into the error: You have insufficient permissions to create the database project.  For more information see the product documentation I remember in Visual Studio 2005 running under Admin was required for Windows Vista but we shouldn't be needed...

  Just released The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector. http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products. This...

  Fxcop 1.35 can be found here: Download Microsoft FxCop 1.35 FxCop has historically been on GotDotNet - Since we turned that off last week we didn't have a location for downloading "just" the released version of FXCop -outside downloading the entire SDK. Last night David Kean built a...