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Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:25 AM

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Update

The Team Foundation Team has just updated the the much loved Team Foundation Server Power Tools: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx   Also one of our MVP's (Ed Blankenship ) ran into a problem uninstalling the December Power Tools
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:58 AM

Two new Rosario Specifications

The TFS team has just uploaded two of the new Rosario Specifications Organize team queries and my queries using a folder hierarchy and Team Foundation Server Bug Submission Portal .   They should also be listed on the web page any time now at:
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:49 PM

Brian Harry's blog now in Japanese?

I have only done the first couple of posts but still pretty cool! Check it out at: http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsjpn/default.aspx  
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:31 PM

The MVP's are in town this week!

Been a busy weekend! The MVP's are in town this week and as a gift for coming out we are getting them all external hard drives. I even volunteered to fill with content for them; -just wish i had done the math of how long it takes to put 50gb on 100 hard
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:26 PM

Australia QLD usergroup this Friday

The next meeting of the QLD VSTS Users Group is scheduled for this coming Friday, 18 th April. Come along and hear Carl Rogers tell us all about Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server. Venue: Microsoft Theatre 1,
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:39 PM

MSDN Usergroup Queensland "A Case Study: Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects".

I have sat in on this presentation and it is definitely worth doing -if you are in Australia-grin Title: "A Case Study: Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects" . Synopsis: The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is half of the way
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:03 PM

New CTP's for Work Item Web Access and Team System Web Access 2008

Hakan Eskici and TFS team just released a CTP for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access. Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 (CTP) What's new in TSWA 2008 SP1 Download the CTP for TSWA 2008 SP1 Work Item Web Access (WIWA) 2008 (CTP)
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Monday, April 07, 2008 10:18 PM

New P and P application block: Unity Application Block

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages: · Simplified object creation, especially
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Monday, April 07, 2008 6:15 PM

Great slide deck on "What is new in VSTS 2008"

Just trolling the next for VSTS content and stumbled on Martin Woodward's presentation: Team Foundation Server 2008 - What's New Talk .  With out a doubt my favourite slide in the presentation is slide 15: "Team Build 2008 / 2005 Compatibility"
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Monday, April 07, 2008 6:05 PM

New episode of Radio TFS

In this episode the boys are talking about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition.  "Looks" to be  a good one! http://www.radiotfs.com/2008/04/01/RadioTFS04VisualStudioTeamSystem2008DevelopmentEdition.aspx Enjoy!
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Friday, April 04, 2008 11:14 AM

Sad and happy day: MVP Lorenzo Barbieri

Just found out today that one of our Team System MVP's Lorenzo Barbieri   will be turning in his MVP title .  On the upside the reason Lorenzo is turning in his MVP title is he is joining Microsoft in my old team -DPE! Welcome aboard Lorenzo!
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Friday, April 04, 2008 11:00 AM

New VSTS Whitepaper" SOX and Verification Testing

I have not had a chance to read it yet but looks very good! Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 can be used to assist a business in collecting information that concerns its software-development
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:56 PM

Team System MVPs now aggregating on our web pages

A month ago i did a series of of blog posts with the teams blogs: blog roll: Visual Studio Team System MVP's blog roll: Visual Studio Team Test Team blog roll: Visual Studio Team System Team blog roll: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team blog roll:
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:40 PM

VSTS Team Looking for Devs, PMs, Testers etc

I was just reading Johns blog about needing people on the debugger feature team and realized all 5 teams in the VSTS group need people - at last count we need 35 people!  So if you have a passion for developer tools - and the skill to match; please
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:48 AM

How Do I: Write a Simple Custom Policy?

New How do I Video: Writing a Simple Custom Policy This video demonstrates how to write a simple custom policy to add to your existing Team Foundation Server development environment. Big thanks to Pat Tormey from www.4square.net for creating it!  
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:12 PM

Australian Architecture Forum 2008 - Registration now open

One of the best events in Australia for 2007 Australian Architecture Forum has just opened registrations for the 2008. Should be a great event with topics like: REST vs SOAP A RESTful project approach Software as services Pragmatic Domain-Driven Design
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:58 PM

Writing a Screen Saver in Visual Basic that displays Web Pages

The Team System Team just got a big beautiful 52" LCD for displaying Team news - Yeah!  Unfortunately i was silly enough to volunteer to help put content on the computer driving this screen-boo!.  Luckily Jeff mentioned an internal tool
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:14 PM

New Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server and Team Suite VPC Image

As many people have noticed the current Visual Studio Team System 2008 VPC expires tomorrow (April 1st). For those of you relying on this VPC for many activities (like myself) it will come as a great relief, we have uploaded a newer version with many
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:57 PM

OpenXML to become an ISO Standard

One of the things i did in Australia was teach people about Office 2007 / VSTO programing so it was great news this afternoon that i saw this: Ecma Office Open XML Document Format Appears to Win Approval as an ISO/IEC Standard As always if you want to
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM

Your last chance to see a Bill Gates: The TechEd keynote

I have been doing some work on the Team System Website in preparation for TechEd (as I probably will not be going) and realized this is probably my last chance to see Bill keynote a Microsoft event.  Kind of sad.  While i only had one meeting
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:27 AM

Queensland VSTS User Group April 18th

  Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server Process MeNtOR TeamGuide leverages the infrastructure provided by Team Foundation Server to provide a dynamic process composition capability that accelerates team productivity.
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