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 Visual Studio Code...

The Team System UE blog now has draft documentation that explains the added capability for including custom controls in Team Foundation Server work item types ( Custom Controls in Work Item Types ). The Work Item Tracking Custom Controls mechanism provides...

Dave McKinstry ( Team System MVP ) posted some Q & A notes on his blog that he accumulated from presenting on Team Edition for Database Pros ( Some notes on Team Edition for Database Professionals ). I've been doing presentations, webcasts and training...

Sachin Rekhi posted a video on Channel 9 by Mairéad A. O'Donovan (a program manager on the team) that demonstrates creating projects in Team Edition for Database Professionals ( Creating a database project with Team Edition for Database Professionals...

The first "Orcas" public CTP release of Visual Studio is now available for download as a virtual machine from Microsoft Downloads ( Download details: Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" September 2006 CTP ). Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" delivers on Microsoft...

A very cool video on Channel 9 ( FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams ) with Team System evangelist, Brian Keller , talking with Mary Czerwinski & Greg Smith on a project from Microsoft Research (celebrating its 15th...

This service pack ( Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta and Team Foundation ) includes both fixes and new features. For those who want line item detail of what was fixed for Team Foundation Server in SP1 Beta, you should go read Brian Harry 's latest...

Etienne Tremblay has a post on his blog ( TFS Server Administrators (when you can't be a Windows server administrator) ) that describes what I consider to be a best practice for managing Team Foundation Server, which is to use an Active Directory. By...

Another Visual Studio download that appeared on Microsoft Downloads this month is the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta . Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition...

When I was in Adelaide, Australia for the Ready Launch Tour last year, I saw Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 for the first time. I immediately thought we should be able to use it with Team Foundation Server to create team project key...

The Team System UE blog has another article posted that contains a draft help topic ( How to: Move the Data Warehouse SQL Server Analysis Services Database to a Separate Server ) that described how to move the Team Foundation Server Data Warehouse to...

The Team System UE blog has a draft help topic ( Team Foundation Server and Basic Authentication ) to accompany the recent release of Service Pack 1 Beta that explains using Basic or Digest authentication with Team Foundation Server and the ISAPI filter...

As you may know, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta is now available ( Now Available: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta ). This service pack also includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, and some new features for Team Foundation. You can...

Brian Harry has the current dogfooding stats for our use of Team Foundation Server within Developer Division ( September TFS DevDiv Dogfood Statistics ), including info on some changes coming in the Orcas release. Dogfood activity continues to be brisk...

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta is now available for download. Microsoft is committed to making customers successful with Visual Studio 2005. As part of this continuing effort, Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)...

Buck Hodges blogs ( How to measure performance using the web service performance dialog ) about a little-known capability in Team Foundation Server that can help you troubleshoot performance issues in your Team Foundation Server client applications. What...

If you want to dig deeper into the load testing features found in Team System, you should read this new article ( Monitoring and Analyzing a Load Test Result ) by Rick Potts, a developer on the load testing team. Summary: Microsoft Visual Studio Team...

Grant Holliday is taking OzTFS Weekly News one step better - he's providing an RSS feed that summarizes the best of the past week's conversations on the OzTFS mailing list. Welcome to the first edition of OzTFS Weekly News. In another one of my brainwaves...

Juan J. Perez of Personify Design created a video guided tour of TeamLook ( TeamLook Guided Tour Video Posted! ). If you use Team Foundation Server, but live in Outlook, you need TeamLook. We just posted TeamLook Guided Tour video which shows TeamLook...

Are you maintaining an application built in Visual Basic 6, but itch to start doing some .NET development? Now you can live in both worlds. Instead of a one-time migration effort or complete rewrite, you can use the Interop Forms Toolkit to move your...

In an interesting move (to go from blogging journalist to journalist blogger?), Mary Jo Foley says good-bye to Microsoft-Watch to launch a new blog ( All about Microsoft ) on ZDnet . Yep, this is my new gig. No more Microsoft-Watch for this Microsoft...

I was reading Chris Rathjen's blog today ( Known Issue: Project Creation Wizard (PCW) still says I need to be a Sharepoint Administrator after I become one ) and it reminded me of an issue that I found late last year, but never fixed (I just filed the...

I just went out to Wikipedia to look something up and I see my favorite Canadian trio is Today's featured article . Rush is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist , keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee , guitarist Alex Lifeson , and...

Mitch Denny blogs about a new utility for providing continuous integration on Team Foundation Server ( Getting Started with TFS Integrator ). This particular utility uses .NET Framework 3.0. See Mitch's post for the details on where to get it, and how...

Willy-Peter Schaub , the Team System MVP for South Africa, blogs about the expansive line of high-quality reference posters from Developer Readiness Program (DRP) . We have made some major changes in terms of our quick reference posters, all of which...