I haven’t done my usual New Team System Stuff post since August. Recently, I’ve stumbled on something called a blog carnival. After learning more about them, I want to do the same for Team System – perhaps on TeamSystemRocks.com? What’s a blog carnival...

For anyone who reads this blog regularly, you may have noticed that I'm behind on blogging this month. A week or so ago I learned of this great article via Buck Hodges' blog ( An Introduction to Team Foundation Server Version Control from a Visual SourceSafe...

Trying a new format today. Is it better with or without the quotes from other blogs & sites? Stuart Kent is back from vacation . He's blogging about an upcoming tutorial he's giving at the UML conference in Lisbon with Alan Wills . He also has an...

YABFVSNC (Yet Another Blogger from Visual Studio North Carolina) - Adam Singer ( RSS ), an SDE/T on Team System Source Control (aka Hatteras), has joined the team in our North Carolina offices and has started blogging: Hello, world My name is Adam Singer...

From Component Software comes another new application for Team Foundation Server, TFSLinks . If you miss the shared file feature of Visual SourceSafe, TFSLinks can providing similar functionality. The TFSLinks product maintains the relations between...

REMINDER : VERY FIRST TEAM SYSTEM WEBCAST ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd! For more information, see: MSDN Webcast: Extensibility in Visual Studio 2005 Team System—Level 200 Team System in the News ADTmag.com | Microsoft embraces ALM with upcoming Visual...

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...

Moving to Software Factories The new Ask Burton column is now available. This installment is from Jack Greenfield and Keith Short and discusses the movement to software factories . Team System Install Success James Snape had some trouble getting his Team...

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...

As Brian Harry notes in his blog post below, we're getting close to the point where Team Foundation Server Release Candidate and Trial Editions installed earlier this year will start to expire. We are rapidly approaching 6 months since TFS released. Yeah...

I’ve been using the NewsGator Outlook add-in since sometime last year. I don’t know why it happens, but subscription information is volatile. Without intentionally editing it, it can change by itself. For example, after connecting to the...

You can now register to take Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, which is the beta for 70-510. This certification exam counts as credit towards the MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server certification. Registration...

We shipped yesterday (March 18) and it appears that both the Workgroup Edition and Trial Edition are now available for download! That didn’t take too long. Enjoy! Remember, if you install either edition, you can upgrade to Standard Edition by...

With Rick LaPlante's announcement yesterday about the upcoming CTP release of Visual Studio Team System , the buzz is building: Geoff Appleby Gregory Hurlman John Lawrence Frank Prengel James Vastbinder eWeek R.Ramesh wants your input on the Visual Studio...

Got a bit behind this week, but here goes... Visual Studio 2005 for the SQL Server 2005 CTP - October 2004 For those having trouble installing this CTP version of Visual Studio (available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads ), you should try clearing the check...

UML, DSL & Software Factories Stuart Kent , a Senior Program Manager on Keith Short 's team under Steve Cook (who recently appeared at the UK Architect Forum ), has a post ( UML, DSLs and software factories: let those analogies flow... ) in which...

Domain-Specific Language Tools Christopher Bowen had an early look at the DSL tools and had some comments that he can now share ( Microsoft Announces Metadata Framework and DSL Toolkit ). OOPSLA Michael Lehman, who recently worked with the team that's...

Note: Hey, this is just my perspective on CTPs. It should not be construed as an official Microsoft statement on CTPs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. What is a CTP? CTP (Community Technology Preview) release are supposed to be a ‘point...

If you’ve successfully installed Team Foundation Server and created a team project, you’ll likely see this on the home page of the team project portal site: This is a known issue in the July CTP. To fix this issue, here’s the workaround you’ll need...

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...

If you want to learn more about Teamprise and how it brings Team Foundation Server to the Eclipse world, give a listen to this podcast. Sam interviews Martin from Teamprise , a company which has developed a pretty interesting suite of client applications...

We weren't able to get these on the DVD for TechEd or into the .iso, so we just posted seven walkthroughs in this GotDotNet workspace : For testing: Creating and Running Unit Tests Recording and Playing Back a Web Test Creating a Coded Web Test Adding...

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...

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...

Go away for a week and the queue is filled once again. My apologies for stuff that may be old news for you… Team System Dave Bost follows-up with posts on how his Team System installation went: Team System Install Update (Part 1) Team System Install...