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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:01 PM

Orcas March CTP is available now and includes new Team Foundation Server

Here's the announcement. Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think. Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:00 AM

Schema for the WorkspaceMapping.xml file

The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is one of the files generated when creating a new build type. Those of you who've had to customize a build are probably familiar with the TfsBuild.proj file, which is the top-level file used to orchestrate the build. The
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:00 AM

Transcript from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat

Below are highlights from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat (the full transcript is attached to the bottom of this post). I hadn't participated in one in a quite a while. We got quite a few questions, and there were lots of folks from the product team on hand
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Attachment(s): Team System Chat Transcript.doc
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:50 PM

VSTS Webcasts: Licensing, development, TFS, and more

Adam Gallant is putting together a series of webcasts on VSTS topics, including one on licensing (licensing always seems to generate plenty of questions). The webcasts will occur over the next couple of months. His post has all of the details. New VSTS
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Monday, February 26, 2007 9:49 PM

Jeff Atwood's Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool

Jeff has posted a nice GUI for creating event subscriptions. This tool makes the process less arcane and error prone. Check it out! Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool To set up advanced subscriptions, you needed to use bissubscribe.exe. This
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:26 AM

Team Foundation Power Tools version 1.2 (aka TFS Power Toys)

We are happy to announce the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys). This version includes some bug fixes to previous power tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality: Build Test Tools
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:41 PM

Radius: reporting tool from 90 Degree Software

Ameya recently wrote about the new Radius tool from 90 Degree Software . I stumbled across a new Channel 9 video demonstration of it: Radius: What. How. Why. If you use or are interested in the reporting feature of TFS, this may be helpful. Technorati
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:27 PM

CodePlex: Vote on the features and fixes you'd like to see

The CodePlex team has posted about the latest update to CodePlex and encourage you to vote on what you'd like to see in upcoming releases. CodePlex is uses provides a hosted version of Team Foundation Server. New CodePlex Version! I know this is a few
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:39 PM

A quick guide to fixing problems after installing Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Neno Loje , an MVP, recently posted about dealing with HTTP 503 or 403 errors after installing TFS SP1 . Now Brian Harry has written post that should serve as a quick guide to fixing the common problems that occur when installing TFS SP1. See Problems
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:33 PM

You can schedule builds in Orcas

When we posted the Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration Spec , you may have noticed that there was no support for scheduling builds. We implemented build scheduling as a Design Change Request (DCR). That meant that we had to present a justification
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:03 PM

How many people do we have working on Orcas?

Lorenzo Barbieri , an MVP, pointed out the Orcas splash screen spec that's been posted. I'm guessing that's one of those things that leads to people believing we have an infinite supply of people to develop products, leading to comments like, "I can't
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:02 AM

Visual Studio Team System chat on Wednesday Feb. 7

On Wednesday, join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the
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Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:54 PM

Generating documentation from code with Team Build

Brian Keller replied to an internal email thread discussing generating documentation from code as part of a build. If you are looking to do the same, these links should be helpful. Here's what Brian wrote. I just wanted to point out that there are several
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