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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:57 AM

TFS & FQDN problems

I've seen a rash of reports lately with people having problems with TFS when configured to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). There are certain extranet scenarios when you need to configure TFS this way. The problem has been isolated to a change
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Monday, August 18, 2008 5:56 AM

New TFS Sidekicks release available

I've been remiss in my blogging responsibilities for the past few weeks - sorry about that. Between summer vacations, work travel and a new power tool I'm working on, I've just haven't been able to find any time to blog. In my job, I don't get to spend
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:09 AM

More things to know about installing SP1

I'll let this post be a running list of issues that I hear about as people try installing SP1. So far I've heard mostly good things about the installation process but a few problems as well. Here's a few things to know: 1) If you get a Windows Update
Posted by bharry | 32 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 12:31 PM

VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 is shipping!

Following on the release last week of SQLServer 2008 , we are proud to announce the release of Visual Studio/Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1, Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can download them here. Bootstrappers
Posted by bharry | 21 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 7:37 AM

Blogging about testing

With our Rosario release, we are entering the software quality tools market in an even more serious way than we are today. You've heard me talk before about the "pillars" of the Rosario release and one of them being - Testing and Application Quality.
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:46 AM

Clearing up confusion

There has been quite a lot of confusion around the StyleCop free download tool that was put on Microsoft downloads a while back. It first crossed my radar probably 6 weeks ago when it was initially made available because it was positioned as a generic
Posted by bharry | 17 Comments
Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:05 AM

VSTSDB 2008 GDR July CTP is now available

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Most important changes: Project upgrade is now in place. For those
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:44 PM

July '08 Power Tools are available!

You can download them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en You can read all about them in the preview I wrote a couple of weeks ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx
Posted by bharry | 20 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:17 AM

Working on TFS SDK improvements

We are working on improving the TFS SDK to make it easier for people who want to write extensions. There are many areas for improvement so it's hard to pick a place to start. We chose, for the first project, a sample VS add-in that demonstrates a pretty
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:44 AM

Tickled by a Rosario feature

Today, I'm finally getting around to working on something I've been wanting to do for a while.  Rosario is a big release with a ton of great stuff and I've been thinking for a while that I really need to work on figuring out how to articulate all
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:12 AM

July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

We are approaching the release date of our next release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools.  We are targeting to have it available in about 3 weeks.  As I've mentioned before this is a smaller Power Tools release than we typically have
Posted by bharry | 47 Comments
Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:06 AM

Power Tools and Software Assurance

I love our Power Tool program. I really enjoy the opportunity to deliver stuff that people are wanting every few months. I also really like the very positive feedback we get on them. I'm always looking for the next "killer" Power Tool feature that we
Posted by bharry | 13 Comments
Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:02 AM

July '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

I missed the June Dogfood statistics - sorry about that.  This report represents the change since my last dogfood report in May.  The big thing that you will observe is that downloads have dropped dramatically (from a peak around ~150,000,000
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:00 AM

Another innovation in the evolution of Hotfixes

I've been keeping you all abreast of changes in our Hotfix plans.  More than a year ago, we introduced the notion of advertising hotfixes and enabling people to browse and download the hotfixes the find most useful.  Prior to that, the only
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 10:31 AM

Expression and TFS

Warning - this is early information and is subject to change but the Expression team cleared me to say something about it. We get a lot of feedback from customers who would like more seamless integration between Expression and the rest of their development
Posted by bharry | 14 Comments
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