Moving from one source control system to another is much like moving to a new town.  You spend time finding where to get the same services in the new town, discovers what’s different, what’s new, and what is not available.   In this blog...

Last Friday the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide for 2010 was published on CodePlex.  You can get it here .   This is more than a simple document explaining branching strategies, the download includes a hands on lab...

The order of fixing bugs is like the order used to pack a truck when you move.  If you have ever moved yourself you know that packing the biggest and most fragile items first in the truck is important.  You can fit the smaller and sturdier things...

Last Friday Microsoft announced Expression Blend 3.  The Team Foundation Version Control team has been working to provide seamless integration with Expression Blend as blogged by Brian Harry last year. I was pleased to see that TFS integration made...

It is becoming more and more common for developers and testers to work with virtualized clients like those offered with Virtual PC or Hyper-V.  We use this at Microsoft a great deal.  Client virtualization offers many benefits for those working...

We have just shipped Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 Power Tool. · Download TSWA 2008 SP1 What’s New in TSWA 2008 SP1? · Work item only view for users without a client access license. [ Previously known as Work Item Web Access ...

Chandru Ramakrishnan, a TFS Version Control Platform developer who keeps our internal dogfood server humming, noticed this morning that our internal TFS Version Control dogfood server has over 1 billion rows for local versions.  That is over 1 billion...

The Team Foundation Power Tools for VS2008 are now available here .  This is the first release of the Power Tools that work with VS2008.  We did not want to just deliver a warmed over version of the VS2005 Power Tools, so we included lot of...

Back in June we released the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit - a toolkit that helps migrate data between 3rd party version control and bug tracking systems and TFS. Turns out that folks also want to migrate data between two TFS servers too,...

The current TFS Power Tools support TFC/VS 2005 only. However, there are beta customers of VS2008 (aka Orcas) who want to use the check-in policies from the TFS Power Tools. With a few manual steps (below) you can get the TFS Power Tool Check-in policies...

A frequent question among TFC 2008 beta customers is about check-in policy compatability. Will check-in policies work across TFC 2005 and 2008? The answer is that evaluation works across versions in both directions, but editing the policy definition...

Formerly known as Team Plain, the Team System Web Access Power Tool is now officially supported by Microsoft Customer Support Services. You can download it here . Brian Harry has the best post on the details. Enjoy. Technorati Profile

I am pleased to say the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit (toolkit) is officially released. You can get it here on CodePlex. The toolkit provides a set of classes and a reference implementation (and a good example) for migrating and/or synchronizing...

My wife, who is a nurse, chuckles at the computer slang she hears me use. One of her favorite terms is dogfooding. Both the origins of the term dogfooding and the benefits are quite interesting. Nothing says, "fix this problem now!" louder than running...

Doug Neumann, one of our program managers for TFS, had a chance to do a keynote at Micro Focus World in Orlando earlier this month. For those of you not familiar with Micro Focus , they sell a set of tools for COBOL development. While preparing for the...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual...

Just released (or should I say, prereleased) tonight on Codeplex, the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit (the toolkit) Prerelease. See here . We've be working on hard on this toolkit to make availalbe the best practices we have learned from migrating...

Today is "Maroon and Orange Effect" day to honor the memory of the Virginia Tech students and faculty that died on Monday. As an alum of Virginia Tech it has been a difficult week to watch and read the news. However, it has been reassuring to see the...

[Updated for Visual Studio 2010] Team Foundation client tracing is useful for viewing what is sent between the TFS client and server.  Instructions on how to turn this on for Visual Studio 2010 are as follows: Visual Studio Shut down Visual Studio...

Microsoft has acquired DevBiz Business Solutions, the makers of TeamPlain Web Access for Team System. TeamPlain is available at no additional charge to Team Foundation Server customers and is accessible to any user properly licensed with a TFS CAL. You...

March 26, 2007 marks the 10th birthday for Visual Studio. I can hear the veterans out there saying, wait a minute I was using Visual C++ way before March of 1997. That is true, but 10 years ago it was all integrated into one great development environment...

Last Thursday night I experienced a rare treat. My son and I watched the defending Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes from the owner's box. The owner of the Carolina Hurricanes is Peter Karmanos, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officier of Compuware...

Released yesterday, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista . See Somasegar's Q&A about this update. Enjoy!

The Team Foundation Migration Toolkit specification is available for review here (there are links to leave feedback in the doc). The purpose of this toolkit is to help developers write converters from other version control and work item tracking systems...

If you want to watch video on what is in the Team Foundation Power Tools v1.2 and what is coming next, checkout the Channel 9 video here where Brian Keller interviews me on location in North Carolina. This was the first interview of this kind I have ever...