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Friday, January 26, 2007 3:12 PM

SourceSafe on Vista

Richard Berg has some news to share about SourceSafe and Vista support and he asked that I help get some eyes on it. If you are interested in SourceSafe, please take a look at: Clarifying SourceSafe support on Vista SourceSafe on Vista part 2 Thanks Bria
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:24 AM

TeamCity adding support for TFS

JetBrains, the makers of TeamCity, Resharper and other cool developer productivity tools have begun integration with TFS (in addition to SourceSafe, Subversion and other systems they already support). They have a pre-release of TeamCity available for
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Monday, January 22, 2007 4:13 PM

TFSServerManager PowerTool

Ever since we started dogfooding TFS internally, I've been working on a tool I call TFSServerManager. It's a bit of a misnomer because it's not really a management tool as much as it is an operations tool. In the very early days it started as a tool to
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Friday, January 19, 2007 8:27 AM

A VS SP1 Bug Fix List Posted

Yesterday we posted a list of all bugs that were reported through the http://connect.microsoft.com site and fixed in VS2005 SP1. The link is here and you'll find that there are 398 of them. You can click in the link for each bug and go to the Connect
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:58 AM

Orcas Work Item Tracking Performance Improvements

Back in October I published some results from the performance work we've done on version control for Orcas. We've also been working on work item tracking performance improvements - I mentioned them in our last dogfood server statistics. I'm very pleased
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Friday, January 12, 2007 7:40 AM

5 Things You Didn't Know About Me

Thanks for tagging me Rob (I think :)) I can't say I've ever heard of this game before but I guess I'm in. It seems a bit like a new version of a chain letter (do they every really go away?) but I suppose no harm is done :) I don't think coming up with
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:19 AM

January DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

I skipped the December dogfood update because the activity numbers were so skewed at the end of the month by people’s vacations. There’s nothing that particularly stands out about the dogfood server over the last month. It continues to grow. Availability
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:25 AM

January Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP Available

Great news! Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" January 2007 CTP is now available publicly to all customers!! It is being released as a Virtual PC (VPC) image as well as a self-extracting install .. There's lots of great new stuff in it - you can check out
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 6:21 AM

Happy New Year

I never got around to saying it when I got back. Sorry, just seems like there's never enough time in the day to do everything. I hope everyone had a good time off - I know I did. I spent WAY too much time playing World of Warcraft. It's embarassing to
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Friday, January 05, 2007 4:43 PM

New Orcas specs published

Today we published a bunch of new Orcas specs. There are new/updated VS specs and 3 new (and 1 updated) TFS specs . Folder Diff - The spec for the productized version of the TreeDiff PowerToy feature. Check it out and see the improvements we're making.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:18 AM

New version of TeamLook released by Personify Design

If you haven't checked out TeamLook yet it's worth a peak. It provides integration of Team Foundation Server work item tracking into Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to manage your work items in Outlook, easily file bugs from mail threads, etc. It's a
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:32 AM

VSTS Receives 2006 Tester's Choice Awards

Time for a little marketing blurb again :) I promise I won't do it too often. In December, Software Test and Performance Magazine announced their Tester's Choice Awards. You can get a copy of their December issue and read all about it. The Visual Studio
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