Reminder! Chat with members of the Team Foundation team of Visual Studio Team System. They'll be answering questions and discussing their suite of source control, work item tracking, Excel and Project integration, reporting, Windows SharePoint Services...

I’m not off to a good start this year when it comes to blogging. In fact, this is probably the longest I’ve gone without a post. People are starting to notice a drop-off in Team System blogging ( Pssst, Scoble! Over here! ), which won’t...

Scott Dockendorf has a post ( SQLServer: Why to NOT use “sp_” to name your stored procedures ) about this topic with a link to an article from Brian Moran ( Should I Use the sp_ Prefix for Procedure Names? ). Brian’s article gives...

Visual Studio Team System I can’t wait to see some of the content being developed for the Visual Studio 2005 Team System Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) . According to this post ( Welcome to Martin Danner! ), Martin Danner is working on...

Visual Studio Team System A week ago ( New Team System Stuff - 2005-01-13 ) I mentioned John Cunningham is heading to Europe, where he plans to talk about Team System ( The Beta2 push, and Team System in Europe ). To learn more about the tour, see...

Visual Studio Team System Team System down under: The Microsoft Security Summit in Australia has a track with several presentations on Team System ( Team Development and Productivity ). Architecture Keith Short , an architect on the Enterprise...

Visual Studio Team System The January issue of .NET Developer’s Journal is jam-packed with articles on Team System. Chris Menegay has cross posted some information about the December CTP ( Some notes on Dec. CTP and VSTS ) that he originally...

Visual Studio Team System Change of address – the Team System Dev Center is now located at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem . Mickey Gousett has the December CTP of Team System up and running ( Rob will be so proud! – yes...

Visual Studio Team System Adam Singer , a developer in our Visual Studio North Carolina office, recently attended a meeting of the Triangle .NET Users Group . It turns out that Geoff Snowman was presenting on Team System. Adam blogged some answers...

Visual Studio Team System Are you installing Team System using Virtual Server? If so, you may want to read this post ( More Thoughts On Visual Studio Team System Under Virtual Server ) from Jonathan Summers , which offers some sage advice on how...

In an earlier post on this blog ( New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-07 ), I was asked if SQL Server 2005 would regain the diagramming capability found in SQL Server 2000. According to this recent webcast ( Management Studio Q and A ) on the SQL Server Developer...

UPDATE: Reminder! Chat with members of the Team Foundation team of Visual Studio Team System. They'll be answering questions and discussing their suite of source control, work item tracking, Excel and Project integration, reporting, Windows SharePoint...

Visual Studio Team System FTP's VSLive! in San Francisco is offering a post-conference, full-day workshop led by Brian Randell on Visual Studio Team System. Mike Holdorf has been working with Jonathan Summers to get the Dec CTP up and running...

We’ve asked for your feedback before on product design decisions. Now, I’d like to ask about something for my area of the product – documentation. Here goes: If Visual Studio Team System included a glossary with the documentation...

I’ll update this post as needed to provide an indication of what works and what doesn’t for Team System features in the December 2004 CTP release of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You can also find a collection of Known Issues on the Ask...

Want to take a look at how you can extend Team Foundation to do the things we’re not doing for you? Go download the Team Foundation extensibility kit for the Visual Studio 2005 Team System December 2004 CTP. VSTF 1204 CTP Extensibility Kit.msi...

Last month, I wrote a post about Community Technology Previews (CTPs) and what I thought about them ( Team System Community Technology Previews (CTPs) ). On Friday, Josh Ledgard wrote an extensive post ( Adding to, but not Perverting the Beta Process...

Natty Gur recently blogged about an analogy for software development he heard from Leonard Fehskens that doesn’t involve building architecture and construction. The analogy appreciates the creativity aspect while at the same time recognising an...

Peter Jones of Airways New Zealand is currently evaluating the December 2004 CTP release of Team System. To do so, he’s using it to work on a new application with Windows and Web UIs for managing the IT department’s cable assets. In this...

This week, I found a couple of pertinent, and somewhat related, news articles from eWeek : Putting Applications to the Test – Cem Kaner, a name that should be familiar to any professional software tester, “…has challenged enterprise...

Jochen Seemann just posted a link ( Known Issues and Work Arounds for the DSL Tools Dec04 CTP )to a blog article with a list of known issues for the December 2004 CTP release of the DSL Tools, which is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jochens/articles...