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Friday, September 29, 2006 9:12 PM

Some days...

Some days, I am very proud to work at this company - and today is one of them. I have to admit there are some days that I am both embarrassed and apologetic for things I've seen us do but I can tell you they are the rare days. You've heard me say several
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:32 PM

Bug fixes in TFS SP1

Well, I'm going to try to beat a new path here. We're trying to be more transparent about what we are doing, when we are doing it and why we are doing it. The downside of that can be that we go to far and get beaten over the head with the information
Posted by bharry | 47 Comments
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:37 AM

Ramblings on VS SP1

Since the announcement of our SP1 release yesterday, there's been a variety of community feedback. Some in the press, some on blogs and some in email. I got one of those emails this morning and decided to write a few of my thoughts to share my perspective
Posted by bharry | 29 Comments
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:44 AM

TFS SP1 Beta is available!!!

I am thrilled to announce that the much anticipated TFS SP1 Beta is available. You can get access to down load it by visiting the Microsoft Connect Site . Remember, it is a Beta so some caution is advised. It's been a long road but there's some great
Posted by bharry | 60 Comments
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:26 AM

September TFS DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

Dogfood activity continues to be brisk but growth has slowed some in the last month. I think the ramp from the onboarding of so many Orcas feature crews is behind us and the growth will be slower until we bring on more PUs. Overall performance and availability
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
Monday, September 25, 2006 12:39 PM

Away for a week

Sorry you haven't heard from me for a while. It's been busy. I just got back from Redmond (spent all last week there). I was wrapping up a "special project". Given my background both in CLR and in databases, I was asked to spend a few weeks looking at
Posted by bharry | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:34 PM

The Next TFS Power Toy Release

We are in the (very early) planning process for the next TFS Power Toy release. You can read my earlier posts to see what constraints we currently put on Power Toys. Some key constraints are things like "Pure add-on" and "Delivers real value". How do
Posted by bharry | 19 Comments
Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:55 AM

High Availability TFS

Team Foundation Server is a critical component of any company's assets. It protects the very valuable IP that development teams create. As such it's important that it be reliable and secure. Building TFS on SQL Server went a long way toward accomplishing
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Friday, September 08, 2006 8:11 AM

Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

Someone asked me in a comment on my post announcing the new TFS Power Toys if there was any way to make it ignore certain files (like .obj files). The answer is yes. Rather than respond directly in a comment I decided to write a new post about it because
Posted by bharry | 13 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:41 PM

New TFS Power Toys Available!

We've been working hard over the past several months and today we are releasing some of the fruits of that labor. There's a lot of news in this post so I'll try to organize it well. Official support for the TFS MSSCCI provider! The TFS MSSCCI provider
Posted by bharry | 57 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:34 AM

Some guidelines for building TFS tools

Our MS IT group pulled together some "best practice" guidelines for building applications against TFS. We did this because we've started to see people build some internally that put a lot more load on the server than they really should. They just sent
Posted by bharry | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): Advice for developing TFS client applications.doc
Monday, September 04, 2006 11:19 AM

A Bit on Power Toy Philosophy

We're getting ready to release a ton of new TFS Power Toy news in the next few days and as I've been preparing for it, I've found myself reflecting on what Power Toys are about. I don't pretend to be pontificating any official Microsoft policy here but
Posted by bharry | 14 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006 7:33 AM

(Nearly) Last VSTS Training update

Last week I told you about the great success we had with the Beta teach of our 300 level training. Well today I got what I believe is the final schedule for content delivery - And I'm pleased to say that it's sooner than I led you to believe. Our current
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006 7:18 AM

Chat with the VSTS Product group!

Next Wed 9/6 at 10:00am PDT we are holding an MSDN chat with members of the VSTS product group. Come join us and bring your favorite questions. Get the inside scoop on current (and maybe even some future) features. There should be good representations
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
 
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