When you get a chance, go check out the new look and feel of the Visual Basic and Visual C# developer centers. We'd love to get your feedback on the new design. One thing you should notice right away is a reduction in fluff graphics. 1334

Last month, my wife and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. It's not romantic, but one of the topics of conversation this time of year is our constant struggle with clutter at home, and how much we've accumulated over the years. Eighteen years ago, we had a one-bedroom apartment that was so empty...

I know I'm way behind (over 40 days!) on my usual posts where I aggregate Team System content. This post is just to keep this feed fresh until I can catch-up on my regular New Team System Stuff posts. Team Foundation Server on a Domain Controller If you choose to install Team Foundation Server...

Visual Studio Team System Clean Build checkin policy in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Erwyn van der Meer notes that the Team Foundation Team Blog has fallen silent for the last few months. Perhaps when Beta 3 gets out the door it’ll come back to life. What about "front-end" artifact tie-ins...

Visual Studio Team System Ali Pasha answers the question, “ Why is VB the default language for my Application [in Application Designer]? ” and shows how to make diagrams visible to others . Aaron Stebner provides guidance for submitting bugs in the Product Feedback Center on Visual Studio and...

Visual Studio Team System Extending Visual Studio Team System Darren Jefford explores Team Foundation extensibility. Announcing the MSBuild Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 RC! Chris Menegay linked to this post from June, but I’m still curious to see how this can be used to build .NET 1.0 &...

Visual Studio Team System Jeff Beehler on the July CTP of Team System, which we’re now dogfooding. ⊕ Learn more about how we are using Team System within Microsoft. ⊕ Dave Bost hsa posted his slides from a Team System presentation in Chicago. ⊕ Richard Hundhausen posted his Team System...

Visual Studio Team System There’s a new Team System community site – TeamSystemRocks.com ! ⊕ Well, Jeff Lynch rekindled the fire around Team System pricing over on codebetter.com ⊕ , and he was quickly joined by Steve Hebert ⊕ and Brendan Tompkins ⊕ . But I think Darrel Norton helps put things...

It’s now official – the Team System community site is up and running! TeamSystemRocks.com Thanks to Mickey Gousset , Omar Villareal , Joel Semeniuk and Dave Bost for this collaborative effort. Here are some of the announcement blog posts: Chris Menegay – TeamSystemRocks Lives! Omar...

Visual Studio Team System According to my sources, the Team System VPC that was distributed to TechEd attendees in the US and Europe will be available for download sometime this week. Soma blogged about Team System’s contribution to distributed development productivity. At TechEd Europe,...

If you only subscribe to my New Team System Stuff posts, you may have wondered why I haven’t posted anything since before TechEd. While I was in Orlando I fell behind on processing the 100+ feeds I monitor for Team System information, which left me with 6000+ items to consider shortly after returning...

On Language Workbenches: Martin Fowler’s original post ⊕ and additional readings ⊕ Brad Appleton’s follow-on post ⊕ Perspectives from Pedro Silva ⊕ , Keith Short ⊕ , Stuart Kent ⊕ , Alan Cameron Wills ⊕ , and Steve Cook ⊕ Microsoft held a joint workshop with MetaCase at XP2005: Alan...

Scott Bellware provides architecture insights from TechEd 2005 ⊕ Pedro Silva has a day-by-day accounting of his TechEd experience ( 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 & 5 ) Dave Oliver ⊕ and Marco Dorantes ⊕ on the Team System Modeling Strategy MCP Radio has a segment on the Microsoft Certified Architect...

Matt Pietrek looks at the impact of the innovation tax ⊕ In his first technical post, Maxim Goldin looks at the Profiler Caller/Callee View ⊕ The new VSTS Quality Tools blog on running tests with code coverage ⊕ Michael Brisset dives into unit test generation ⊕ Erik Cutts illustrates source...

On the off chance you’re not reading David Anderson’s award-winning blog, here’s what he had to say in June (at a minimum, read the * posts): Approx 44 Minutes Nine Dollar Loaf New Color Modeling Group Understand Your Tribe Performing a Tribal Analysis 1275 Balloons Lean Thinking...

Abhinaba Basu on marking required fields in work items ⊕ and build types ⊕ Adam Singer on the latest changeset info ⊕ and the omitted ⊕ Buck Hodges on: TFS Source Control administration web service Please send error reports when prompted Using baseless merge with converted VSS shared...

Wouldn’t it be nice… VSTS Quality Tools: Getting Started with Test Generation Viewing Downloaded CHM Files Updated MSF for Agile Software Development Process Template Unit Testing API Docs TheServerSide.net Tech Talk - Eric Lee on Team Foundation Server Team System VPC: Disk Full Error...

Adam Ulrich is busting testing myths here ⊕ and here ⊕ . Eric Jarvi on: VSTS Tip: making sense of load test threshold values high performance testing Josh Christie on: Web Test Recording Automatic Hidden Field Tracking Jonathan Kohl on user profiles and exploratory testing...

Carl Franklin has posted the .NET Rocks Show #117 with members of the Team System team ⊕ Chris Menegay on: Team System news from TechEd Rethinking Team System assumptions Started running VS Team Suite NOT in a VPC It seems I've riled a Rational salesrep Grace Francisco covers using...

Visual Studio Team System Bill Sheldon from InterKnowlogy has an item in the June 3rd edition of Developer .NET UPDATE [ Developer .NET UPDATE--Visual Studio 2005 Team Editions--June 3, 2005 ] that takes a look at the role-based editions of Team System and offers his opinion on which one might...

Visual Studio Team System Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the public announcement of Visual Studio Team System, which was announced at TechEd 2004 in San Diego [ Visual Studio 2005 Team System! ]. MOC 2631, the official Microsoft curriculum for a Team System workshop went through...

Visual Studio Team System The big news around Team System at the moment is the announcement on Rick LaPlante’s blog [ listening to customers ] and elsewhere about changes to the pricing and licensing of Team Foundation Server, and Team Suite upgrade pricing. You can also read about it on the News...

This is just a quick post while I finish up Part 3 of my Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio Team System, which will focus on Team Foundation Server… We’re going to include a 5–user version of Team Foundation Server with each of the role-based editions of Team System: Visual Studio Team Edition...

Visual Studio Team System If you’re installing Beta 2 using Virtual PC, you should learn to appreciate the almighty differencing disk . Chris Menegay shares Q&A from recent his recent Team System classes here and here . Mickey Gousset had no trouble with his Team Foundation Server install...

Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 is out and thousands of you have downloaded and installed it with varying degrees of success [ Visual Studio Team System & SQL Server 2005 (April CTP) and Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 ]. The best place to go for support is the Team System Forums . If you’re...