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Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:11 AM

The Japanese version of Team System Web Access is available

Today we released the Japanese version of the Team System Web Access Power Tool. Long ago, I announced that we would be releasing localized version of TSWA with the VS 2008 products. Well, today it is becoming a reality. Over the next few weeks, we will
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:40 AM

TFS "Build Recipes" site launched

One of the most common areas for questions around TFS is using the TFS automated build system. How do I build .NET 1.1 apps with TFS 2005/TFS 2008? How do I build VS 2005 solutions with TFS 2008? How do I customize the build number Team Build generates?
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:09 PM

Comparison of VS 2008 client products

We've gotten quite a few requests from customers over the past couple of months for more information comparing each of the VS 2008 product offerings. We have just published a pretty massive feature comparison to help you pick the product that is right
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:16 AM

Requirements management with Team System

Here's a nice blog series I ran across on requirements management with Team System, Team Foundation Server and some 3rd party products. We are also working on a whitepaper to provide an overview of this. http://blogs.msdn.com/slange/archive/2007/11/06/requirements-management-in-tfs-part-1-of-4-overview.aspx
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:00 AM

VS 2008 Design time performance improvements reported

It's nice to see that people in the "real world" are seeing benefits from our efforts to improve performance in VS 2008. http://blogs.conchango.com/johnrayner/archive/2008/01/28/Design_2D00_time-perf-improvements-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx Brian
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 10:50 AM

TFSAdmin Updated for TFS 2008

The popular TFS add-on for administering permissions across TFS, SQL Server Reporting Services and Sharepoint has been updated to support TFS 2008.  The tool, call TFSAdmin, is available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 7:38 AM

A customer's experience with TFS and Teamprise for Java development

Yesterday someone forwarded me a link to a Minnesota user group presentation on using TFS and Teamprise in a mixed .NET and Java shop . Being, admittedly, somewhat biased, I thought it was a terrific presentation on their experiences and felt is was worth
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:19 AM

TeamSpec by Personify Design is Shipping

Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.  I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.  When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts - Elicitation/Capture
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:28 PM

New features to understand branching/merging

Back around the Holidays I promised 3 "surveys" but I actually only described 2 of them. I've finally gotten around to writing up the 3rd one. In our next release, we are building a slew of new features designed to make managing branching and merging
Posted by bharry | 49 Comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:38 PM

Checking your TFS Version and Extending Trials

As with Team Foundation Server 2005, we are publishing a utility that you can run on your TFS server to determine what version of TFS it is and, if it is trial, how many days remain until it expires. It also enables you to extend trials by 30 days. The
Posted by bharry | 20 Comments
Attachment(s): TFSVersionDetection.zip
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:18 AM

How do I upgrade to TFS 2008?

Now that Team Foundation Server 2008 keys/media/downloads are available, I'm seeing lots more questions about various scenarios. I'm going to try to capture all of the less obvious issue here: You have TFS 2008 Trial Edition installed and you want to
Posted by bharry | 54 Comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:27 AM

Koders announces search support for Team Foundation Server

Koders, a popular development search tool, has announced support for searching Team Foundation Servers. In addition to the ability to index your source, work items, etc, they have a Visual Studio plugin that enables access from within Visual Studio and
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:58 PM

Jan '08 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

This month we passed 1 billion rows in the local version table!  By any measure – that’s a big database!  The local version table keeps track of what versions of each file have been downloaded into every workspace.  Files and
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:50 AM

TFS SDK

There has been a lot of confusion lately because the TFS SDK was erroneously removed from the VS SDK. We are working to get it put back into the VS 2008 VS SDK. Until then, you can use the VS 2005 SDK - which still contains the TFS SDK docs. There were
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:56 PM

New TFS Times Edition

Paul Hacker has started a new monthly Team Foundation Server newsletter that focuses on a topic each month and solicits articles from experts in the area. He has just published his January 2008 Edition - focusing on TFS Build. You'll find tons of tips
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