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Doug Seven

Senior Product Manager - Visual Studio Team System

July 2007 - Posts

Upcoming MSDN Webcast: Overview of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector
From Brian Keller : If you are interested in the recently released connector which integrates Team Foundation Server 2005 and Project Server 2007 then you don't want to miss this upcoming Webcast. Follow the link to register: MSDN Webcast: Overview of Read More...
Visual Studio Island in Second Life: Developer to Developer Speaker Series
For those of you who have been to Second Life , or who have been curious about it, here's your chance to attend a developer event in virtual reality. In Second Life we have a Visual Studio Island where we are hosting a Developer to Developer Speaker Series. Read More...
Now Available: Team System Web Access Power Tool
Today we released the first "official" power tool release of Team System Web Access. You can download it from here . See Brian Harry's blog for more info . Technorati tags: Microsoft , VSTS , Web , Power Tool Read More...
Now Available: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download, along with NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2. The Silverlight 1.0 RC will be available soon. You can download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 from here . Over the next couple Read More...
What's In a Name?
My colleague, Rob Caron , just posted the latest news on upcoming name changes for some of the Visual Studio product line. Specifically, the Team Editions that are part of Visual Studio Team System. In VSTS 2005 we named the Team Editions based on the Read More...
Scott Hanselman Joins Microsoft
I may be a few days behind on this one. This past Saturday, Scott Hanselman reported on his blog that he has accepted a position on ScottGu's team in Microsoft's Developer Division. Personally I think this is great for us all. Scott has always been an Read More...
Visual Studio Team System codename "Rosario" August CTP Signed Off
Brian Harry, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer , announced today that the Visual Studio Team System product group signed off on a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the version of VSTS that will follow the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2008 release. Read More...
Now Available: Service Release 1 (SR1) update for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals
Service Release 1 for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available from Microsoft.com . Here are the details: The following issues are corrected in SR1. These issues have been found through customer and partner feedback. Read More...
TechEd07 Session Available: Unit Testing and TDD
At TechEd 2007 Brian Randall and I co-presented on Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) using Visual Studio Team System. Get this session in Windows Media format. Here is the official session abstract: DEV347 - Unit Testing and Test Driven Development Read More...
.NET Rocks!: Visual Studio Team System Panel Discussion from TechEd 2007
During TechEd 2007 I was asked to participate in a live panel discussion to talk about Visual Studio Team System . I was fortunate enough to sit with some very smart fellows - Mike Azocar , Steven Borg , and Joel Semeniuk - I, of course was the "blue Read More...
Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Joint Launch Announced
Today, at the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver, CO, Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, announced that Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Read More...
A New Era - Visual Studio Team System
After two years on the Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team I have decided that I needed a new challenge. During the past couple years I was able to transition my development team onto Visual Studio Team System , and Team Foundation Server . I had Read More...
Better Software Development for Agile Teams
A few week's ago the latest book from Jim Newkirk and Will Stott was released, Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams . Personally I am a huge fan of agile development - the team I have been managing has been using VSTS, Read More...
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