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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:41 AM

Using Different Credentials to a Team Foundation Server

Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't have a chance to re-enter these credentials. 
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:09 AM

New sample: Deploying VSTO 3.0/Office 2007 with Windows installers

The VSTO Folks just released a new sample on Deploying a VSTO 3.0 solution for the Office 2007 using Windows Installers . The code samples are written in Visual Basic and C#. The folowing list of projects and samples describes how you can integrate these
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:45 AM

Finding Shelve/Unshelve in Visual Studio 2008.

One of our MVP's (that knows a lot more about VSTS than i do) indicated finding Shelve/Unshelve can often be difficult to find and uses the command line to access this functionalityas a result . Having looked for it in the past i am not going to disagree
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:06 AM

Stephanie Saad enters the blogosphere!

Stephanie Saad -the heart and soul for the Process Templates in foundation Team Foundation Server has just started a blog.   http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/ next time i update the Team Foundation Server Web page i will also add Stephanie
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:02 PM

New Team System "how do I video" -Performance Reports

Richard Hundhausen just finished another Team System "How do I" video -this one on a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 the ability to compare two profiler reports. Video Downloads WMV (Zip) | WMV | iPod | MP4 | 3GP | Zune | PSP Audio Downloads
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:55 AM

Visual Studio Team System Tip of the Week- Test lists not showing up in TFS Builds menu #1

Long ago i learned you really don't get to know your peers/peeps/coworkers until you spend an evening with them and their family. Living this ideal made for a busy week last week as i had one my MVP's stay with us, then had Beth Massi and Sara Ford over
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:50 AM

Seattle Visual Studio Team System Users Group Room Change for March 26

Tomorrow should be a great day at the Seattle Visual Studio Team System Users Group as Jaun Perez of Personify is in town to talk about ALM Strategies. Since our normal room is not available we will be meeting at: Microsoft Campus in Redmond - 41 Room
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:22 AM

3 More of the Rosario Specifications posted

Big thanks to Matthew Mitrik and John Nierenberg for sanitizing three more of the Rosario specifications for download Codename “TFS Bug Submission Portal” Power Tool for Team Foundation Server 2008 Send Mail from TFS Core Linking Work Item Tracking Apparently
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:11 AM

Just released Alpha of the Light Weight Scrum 2.1

Big congratulations to Mike Azocar and the rest of the LWS team fabcamara , steven_borg and wschaub for releasing the alpha version of Light Weight Scrum 2.1 ! www.codeplex.com/vstsscrum
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:41 AM

Cool new page - Process templates

Just found out one of my old co workers Richard Burt has created a cool new page on the Team System Process Templates. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/aa718795.aspx#
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Friday, March 21, 2008 10:40 AM

Visual Studio Development Team at the Seattle VB Usergroup March 24th

Robert Green has invited the Visual Studio Team to present at his Visual Basic usergroup .  Should be a lot of fun hope to see you there!   Location: Microsoft Building 40, Steptoe Room #1450   Map Event Date: Monday, March 24, 2008
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Friday, March 21, 2008 9:40 AM

Better Project Management with Team Foundation Server

Good Friend Brian Keller sat down with my manager Jeff Beehler, on the topic of ways he relies on Team Foundation Server every day to help him make project management decisions.  -Enjoy! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Friday, March 21, 2008 7:15 AM

Visual Studio Team System Chat -April 9

This will be my very first Team System chat! Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:56 AM

Teamprise 3.0 Released - and looks great!

This morning Teamprise 3.0 was Released - Hearty congratulations to the folks at Teamprise! If you are not familiar with Teamprise they offer a suite of client applications for accessing Team Foundation Server from from within the Eclipse IDE, and from
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:41 AM

Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System White Paper

Just released the Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System White Paper .  The document does a great job of walking through several of the partners and the strengths of their offerings.  Can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EEF7BB41-C686-4C9F-990B-F78ACE01C191&displaylang=e
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:43 AM

New edition of TFS Radio out!

In this episode Martin and Paul take a look at the December '07 release of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools , and discuss how they help you get more out of Team Foundation Server. Also check out there new website: http://www.radiotfs.com/
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:37 AM

Team Foundation Server Hosting in North America (And Australia)

TeamDevCentral just launched the first hosted offering of Team Foundation Server in North America. Until April 1 st the set up fee is waived for the Starter/Pilot package which includes up to 5 users.  They have already deployed Microsoft Team Foundation
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:57 AM

You have insufficient permissions to create the database project.

Playing with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition i ran into the error: You have insufficient permissions to create the database project.  For more information see the product documentation I remember in Visual Studio 2005 running under Admin was
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:59 AM

Team Foundation Server (TFS) distribution list

While the OzTFS distribution list was originally created to service the Australian Developer community the list has since grown to have recipients all over the world -which makes sense as it is also the only public Team Foundation List in the world-grin! 
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:50 AM

Minnesota VSTS User Group: Getting the Most from VSTS Testing Tools

Getting the Most from VSTS Testing Tools Description: This presentation will introduce you to the different types of tests that are bundled with the Team Test Edition of Visual Studio. The test types include unit, web, load, manual generic and ordered.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:12 AM

Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector for Team Foundation Server

  Just released The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector. http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:07 AM

VSTS User group -Brisbane (TFS Migration and Synchronisation Toolkit)

  TFS Migration and Synchronisation Toolkit Session Abstract: The TFS Migration and Synchronisation Toolkit provides a framework to import or synchronise source-code and work-items into TFS. In this session William Bartholomew will explain the architecture
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:43 PM

Updating the Team Foundation Server FAQ:

Spent the evening in front of the TV updating Bryan's FAQ .  The document will continue living elsewhere but wanted to get the current updates live...   Q: When installing a new Team Foundation Server, is there a way to use an existing SharePoint
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:55 AM

Microsoft FxCop 1.35 for download

  Fxcop 1.35 can be found here: Download Microsoft FxCop 1.35 FxCop has historically been on GotDotNet - Since we turned that off last week we didn't have a location for downloading "just" the released version of FXCop -outside downloading
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