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April 2007 - Posts

Monday, April 30, 2007 1:32 PM

Round One of Channel 9 Videos is Done

We've recently published the last couple of the first round of Channel 9 videos that Brian Keller taped a few months ago. Read about it on Brian's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2007/04/26/more-channel-9-interviews-with-the-team-foundation-server-team.aspx
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Monday, April 30, 2007 11:09 AM

Team Project and Branching Guidance

Among the most common questions I hear about TFS are "How do I structure my Team Projects?" and "How do I organize my branches?" Clearly both are very related questions. We've put together some whitepapers to help give some people some guidance on both
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Friday, April 27, 2007 7:02 AM

Update on our upcomming Team System Chat

We've decided to add another Team System Chat today at a time that is more convenient for our Asian customers. It's probably still not perfect but should help. The additional chat will be on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:04 PM

Closure on devBiz Components

We have finalized our decision to license source code for the devBiz components (devMail, devCompress, devGroupware, devDns, devMX) to current owners. We are just hammering out the final details on the licensing agreement but I expect to be able to start
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:22 AM

A new TFS Sidekick release from Attrice

Our friends at Attrice have released version 1.3 of their TFS Sidekicks tools. These tools are great add-ons to TFS that add great functionality to Team Explorer. This new version includes a "shelvesets sidekick" and improvements to the labels sidekick.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:05 AM

Upcoming MSDN Chat on VSTS

Join us for a live chat on Friday 4/27 from 10:00am - 11:00am PDT. The products groups will be on hand to answer any questions you have about Team System. This is the first chat since Orcas Beta 1 was released. Come and find out the latest news. Sadly
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:45 PM

Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Prerelease

For the past 6 or 9 months we've been working on something we call the Migration & Synchronization toolkit. It is a framework for building tools that either convert from other systems to TFS or synchronize other systems with TFS. We frequently think
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:04 PM

Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Available!

Orcas Beta 1 is now available for download . I don't think all of the SKUs are available yet - they will be dribbling out over the next week or so but the VPCs for VSTS Team Suite and TFS server are available now. To a first approximation (the primary
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:47 AM

First TFS Best Practices Analyzer Success

We've been working for the past several months on a new Power Tool - a TFS Best Practices Analyzer. The goal of this tool is to diagnose TFS configuration and operation problems quickly and easily. As you probably know, TFS is a pretty complex installation
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:00 PM

New Fiddler Release

This is my last post for today, I promise. But Ed Glas (on the VSTS Test team) asked me to help publicize this. We recently posted a new release of Fiddler - a really nice web test recording tool. It was not written by the VSTS team but they have started
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:28 AM

Managing Quality (part 6) - Community Feedback

I touched on one aspect of customer involvement in our quality efforts in my last post about Dr. Watson. There are a variety of other metrics we track and measure ourselves against that are more overtly community oriented. Before I drill into the metrics
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:17 AM

Dogfood I/O Analysis

I've been falling so far behind on everything I'm supposed to do I just can't stand it. Today is my day to try to catch up on blogging. I promised I'd follow up on the dogfood I/O analysis from the Orcas upgrade. Well, I got the results a week or two
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:00 AM

April DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

It’s now been over a month since the DevDiv dogfood server upgrade to Orcas bits. We’ve continued to poke and prod at the server and make patches as we identify issues. The rate has slowed down from that first hectic week of several patches a day to about
Posted by bharry | 9 Comments
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:23 AM

Configuring TFS to use Sharepoint 2007

Over the past several months we've gotten countless requests from people who want to use the new Sharepoint 2007 (WSS 3.0) with their TFS server (instead of Sharepoint 2003 (WSS 2.0)). Our plan has been to release support for Sharepoint 2007 in the Orcas
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Monday, April 16, 2007 7:47 AM

Microsoft Announces Silverlight

Check out Soma's blog today: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/15/silverlight-the-next-generation-web-media-experiences.aspx He announced a new project called Silverlight that enables amazingly cool cross browsers, cross platform web apps
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:40 AM

Process MeNtOR

Last week I saw a demo of Process MeNtOR by Object Consulting. They have built a really nice process template for VSTS. If process is something you care about, I'd highly recommend you look into it. In several ways it's better than the process templates
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Monday, April 09, 2007 10:58 AM

Cool work item add-on

Sorry for so many posts today but I'm working through my mail backlog from last week and running across a ton of cool stuff. Here's one someone sent me that enables management of work item hierarchies and a neat "recycle bin" for work items. http://loicbaumann.blog.com/1664355/
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Monday, April 09, 2007 9:02 AM

TFS & Delphi

I ran across this great post about getting TFS and Delphi working together and thought I'd share it... http://tikotal.blogspot.com/2007/04/connecting-team-foundation-server.html Brian
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Monday, April 09, 2007 8:32 AM

Progress on devBiz Components

Thank you for your patience as we work through the feedback we've gotten after announcing the devBiz acquisition. The last open issue is feedback from customers of the devBiz components (devMail, etc.) that need a way forward for their use of the components
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Friday, April 06, 2007 2:07 PM

Process for requesting TeamPlain refunds

In an earlier post I described the refund program we are putting in place for people who purchased TeamPlain from devBiz just before they were acquired by Microsoft. Refunds are available to people who purchased with 30 days before the close of the acquisition
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:06 PM

Back by Popular Demand

Due to the demand for the VSTS Web Access v2.0 preview, we have again made it available on the devBiz site here: http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/webaccess/download.aspx This is a pre-release of what will become the TFS Power Tool release of the VSTS Web
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:22 AM

Update on Team Foundation Server Roadmap

It's been about 4 months now since I published the first Team Foundation Server roadmap. A lot has happened since then. For one thing, we've just about completed all of the feature work (final feature checkins will be this week). For another, we announced
Posted by bharry | 31 Comments
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:12 AM

New Forum on MSDN for Team System Web Access

In the last few days, we have launched a new MSDN Forum for discussions of Team System Web Access: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1466&SiteID=1 We have redirected the forums at the devBiz site to the new forum on MSDN. We
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Monday, April 02, 2007 7:11 AM

Update on devBiz Acquisition

We're about a week past the closing of the devBiz (makers of TeamPlain Web Access for VSTS) acquisition and it's been a busy week. There's been a lot of interest and questions and people are really excited. Clearly there have been a lot of comments on
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