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April 2008 - Posts

Monday, April 28, 2008 4:20 PM

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

The stream of new stuff coming out for VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 continues! - see my recent post on an update to the TFS Power Tools . It is time for me to tell you about what is coming in TFS 2008 SP1. The release of the Beta is very close (as always, don't ask
Posted by bharry | 144 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:13 AM

Me, in Japanese

We've gotten a lot of feedback over the past year that our online content is really valuable but that it is a big problem that it is not translated for countries where English is not a commonly spoken/learned language. Japan is, perhaps, one of the best
Posted by bharry | 7 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:49 AM

Issues uninstalling Dec 2007 Power Tools - error 1001

We've heard some reports from people who are upgrading to the Mar 2008 Power Tools that they have had problems uninstalling the Dec 2007 Power Tools (which you must do first). They get "error 1001" - a very useful error message a must admit. It makes
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:45 AM

Overall TFS Adoption at Microsoft

It's been a while since I did a post of overall TFS adoption at Microsoft and it seems like it would be a good time to do so.  More and more teams onboard every month and usage within teams continues to deepen.  I post details of the Developer
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:44 AM

More Rosario specifications posted

We added/updated several Rosario specifications this week. For those of you on the "bleeding edge", this is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and provide feedback early in the development process. You can provide any feedback you have on
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Monday, April 21, 2008 2:11 PM

March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools.  This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server).  If you haven't taken the time to upgrade yet, I
Posted by bharry | 49 Comments
Monday, April 21, 2008 9:01 AM

Team Development Guide with TFS now in Russian

The wildly popular Team Development guide with TFS that was produced by the Patterns and Practices team has now been translated in to Russian.  You can find the Russian translation here. Brian
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:23 PM

Teamprise 3.0 has shipped

I just discovered one more in a long list of things that I missed while I was out. Teamprise has released Teamprise 3.0. The new release includes tons of great new features, including: Full Team Build support, Checkin policy support, folder compare and
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:29 PM

Requirements & Team System

Team System is recognized for many of its strengths.  One area that I think people often don't grasp the power that Team System brings is in Requirements Management.  We don't currently have a product that we sell for the explicit purpose of
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:00 PM

OpenMake Meister support for Team Foundation Server

I meant to blog about this before I went on sabbatical, but you know how it goes - the best laid plans... A couple of months ago OpenMake released support for TFS in their Meister cross platform build and deployment product.  This product integrates
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:54 PM

A new home for Visual Studio Hotfixes

We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now.  Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped.  Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download
Posted by bharry | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:53 PM

April '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

Due to my sabbatical, I missed the March Dogfood statistics.  In my absence, adoption has continued apace.  The team has been very busy making sure the server is behaving well and applying fixes when it is not. Looking at the graphs below, you
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:38 PM

New TFS Specs Available

We continue in our effort to publish specs for features that are under development very early in the process so that we can incorporate your feedback before we are even done coding it.  We haven't published as many as I had hoped but we continue
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:20 PM

Updates to Team System Web Access

A few days ago we released a couple of Community Technology Previews (CTPs) for the next release of Team System Web Access.  They include a set of new enhancements for the existing Team System Web Access UI and the promised additional capability
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 9:33 AM

Pictures of my farm

My sabbatical is almost over.  I've got one week left.  But at the moment, I'm taking a sabbatical from my sabbatical :).  I'm in Redmond for the next two weeks to attend our MVP summit and some other important meetings.  After that
Posted by bharry | 12 Comments
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:38 AM

SOX Compliance with Team System

I frequently get asked about how Team System can help with SOX compliance. Unfortunately, the answer is not simple. SOX relates to the management of transactions t hat affect assets and is undertaken with the help of a qualified appraiser who defines
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
 
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