Dave's Team System Blog

I'm sure you already know about this--and it's not technically what I focus on--but we list some nice projects over at Microsoft Live Labs . A listing of the projects is available here . I've been impressed with Photosynth for a while. It takes 2D pictures...

I've been playing around with F# for a little while, but I hadn't gotten my hopes up that it'd end up an official part of Visual Studio. It looks like my trusty intuition isn't as trusty as I'd hoped it would be. There's a team forming to help bring F#...

Looks like I'm out of date on some of my references. In the initial release of VSTE for Database Professionals ("DBPro") we didn't support references between databases. That's changed--three and four-part references are now supported (e.g. the "Pubs"...

It's not a big secret that I spent years programming in other languages before coming to Microsoft--Java, PERL, C++ on UNIX, Pascal variants, Smalltalk, etc. One of the nice aspects about programming in those environments--well, some of them--is that...

The TFS operations guide is out: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server It covers monitoring, topology, operations plans, users and groups, where the configuration information is, and backup/restore planning. I have to say, I'm always a fan of...

I'm constantly asked for a "getting started" list for VSTS. I've saved and rewritten that same information a bunch of times. Now, Clark Sell has created a graphical "mind map" version of common VSTS resources--check it out: The VSTS Resources Map

Attrice has some great TFS tools called "Sidekicks". I know I love them because They do things I need done They're simple, and I want them to have more features. (If I didn't care, I wouldn't want them to have more features). One example: I'll work across...

This link has been available for quite a while, but I never posted it in my blog. It's easy to get overwhelmed trying to keep up with extensions available for Visual Studio. One central place where we list a number of useful extensions for Visual Studio...

Brian Keller had blogged previously on configuring the current release of TFS to support WSS 3.0 or SharePoint 2007. Jeff Beehler also blogged about the same topic previously, and provides more information here: Jeff's blog post: Finalized guidance published...

Last night, the IronRuby team made the source code for IronRuby available. John Lam posted the story on his blog ( http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html ). Jason Zander wrote about IronRuby and the Microsoft Permissive License it shipped...

Another cross-post here. Chad Brooks posted a link to a Weather Channel Vista Gadget for seeing your local weather. He blogs about it here: Weather Channel Windows Vista Gadget . You can just download it here at http://download.weather.com/web/services...

The guys over at SRL in Israel have posted some nifty topics on advanced testing ( click here ). The one I love is "Collecting performance counters from UNIX during VS load test", below: Logon once and perform a number of tests Creating customized manual...

KBC Bank is a Belgian-based bank with eleven million customers, and have developers and project managers located on different continents. They increased developer and manager productivity, improved software quality, and shortened project cycles by using...

We've posted a preview of the migration toolkit over on Codeplex , and the PM for the product blogs about it on his blog . So what does it let you do? You can use it to import data from other systems (bug tracking systems, version control systems,...

I'll focus on web testing and load testing. It's next Wednesday for 90 minutes. The invitation is below: teamCast Wednesday Series: Visual Studio Team System Deep Dive Series Please join us for a deep-dive session on specific Visual Studio Team...

Brian Keller explains how to integrate TFS with SharePoint Services 3.0 here . It's a pre-release integration, but it gives you a way to use some of the more recent SharePoint capabilities with your Team Project Portal. Matt Mitrik posted a link to...

After I've told everyone that it can't be done in Team System, Buck Hodges posts how to emulate that behavior: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/02/shadow-folders.aspx .

Sync points are something you can use to drive heavy load on a system. In some other tools, they're called "Rendezvous points". For example, you could have every user adding items to shopping carts at their own pace, then synchronizing so that they all...

The first posting of the roadmap is available here . You can see the update on Brian Harry's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/04/05/update-on-team-foundation-server-roadmap.aspx . There are some good aspects being added to the...

In the NCAA basketball tournament that just ended, we had 65 teams with a chance to win the championship. It also poses an interesting design problem in figuring out how to pair teams. If you were just figuring out how many games it would take to anoint...

I just finished the OnRamp240 event in Charlotte yesterday, and there were a couple of items that they wanted me to post. So, here goes: http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance Project structure, branching, and promotion guidance...

Cory Foy put up a pretty good tutorial for Autogenerating Tests for Web Services using Visual Studio . It's worth checking out. Ed Hintz put out instructions for TFS Client Tracing , in case you need to record what is being transmitted between Visual...

For those of you who have wanted browser-based access to Team System, Microsoft announced the acquisition of DevBiz today: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-26VisualStudio.mspx . Some of the good news is that we’re making the...

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=90E2942D-3AD1-4873-A2EE-4ACC0AACE5B6&displaylang=en . If you have the beta of this refresh, you'll want to uninstall beta before installing the full refresh--see the...

If you're reading this blog, you're probably familiar with Team System check-in policies; we have three out-of-the-box—code analysis, testing policy, and associated work items. You can apply one or more—or none for that matter. If your pending checkin...