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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:10 PM

The Most Valuable Field Missing From Your Bug Form

The order of fixing bugs is like the order used to pack a truck when you move.  If you have ever moved yourself you know that packing the biggest and most fragile items first in the truck is important.  You can fit the smaller and sturdier things
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Monday, July 13, 2009 1:32 PM

TFS Integration - a Top 10 New Feature of Expression Blend 3

Last Friday Microsoft announced Expression Blend 3.  The Team Foundation Version Control team has been working to provide seamless integration with Expression Blend as blogged by Brian Harry last year. I was pleased to see that TFS integration made
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:32 PM

Client Virtualization and TFS Version Control

It is becoming more and more common for developers and testers to work with virtualized clients like those offered with Virtual PC or Hyper-V.  We use this at Microsoft a great deal.  Client virtualization offers many benefits for those working
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Friday, August 29, 2008 8:54 PM

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool

We have just shipped Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 Power Tool. · Download TSWA 2008 SP1 What’s New in TSWA 2008 SP1? · Work item only view for users without a client access license. [ Previously known as Work Item Web Access (WIWA)
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Friday, January 04, 2008 8:54 AM

Over 1 Billion Served

Chandru Ramakrishnan, a TFS Version Control Platform developer who keeps our internal dogfood server humming, noticed this morning that our internal TFS Version Control dogfood server has over 1 billion rows for local versions.  That is over 1 billion
Posted by edhintz | 2 Comments
Friday, December 21, 2007 2:43 PM

Team Foundation Power Tools for VS2008 - Hot Now!

The Team Foundation Power Tools for VS2008 are now available here .  This is the first release of the Power Tools that work with VS2008.  We did not want to just deliver a warmed over version of the VS2005 Power Tools, so we included lot of
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:50 AM

Pre-release of TFS to TFS Migration Tool Available on CodePlex!

Back in June we released the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit - a toolkit that helps migrate data between 3rd party version control and bug tracking systems and TFS. Turns out that folks also want to migrate data between two TFS servers too,
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Friday, October 19, 2007 3:54 PM

How To Get TFS Power Tool Check-in Policies for VS2005 to Work with VS2008 (Orcas)

The current TFS Power Tools support TFC/VS 2005 only. However, there are beta customers of VS2008 (aka Orcas) who want to use the check-in policies from the TFS Power Tools. With a few manual steps (below) you can get the TFS Power Tool Check-in policies
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Friday, October 12, 2007 8:28 AM

Check-in Policy Compatibility between TFC 2005 and 2008

A frequent question among TFC 2008 beta customers is about check-in policy compatability. Will check-in policies work across TFC 2005 and 2008? The answer is that evaluation works across versions in both directions, but editing the policy definition only
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:10 PM

Team System Web Access Power Tool Released

Formerly known as Team Plain, the Team System Web Access Power Tool is now officially supported by Microsoft Customer Support Services. You can download it here . Brian Harry has the best post on the details. Enjoy. Technorati Profile
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Friday, June 29, 2007 2:17 PM

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Released to the Wild

I am pleased to say the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit (toolkit) is officially released. You can get it here on CodePlex. The toolkit provides a set of classes and a reference implementation (and a good example) for migrating and/or synchronizing
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:52 AM

The Team Foundation Dogfood Gravy Train

My wife, who is a nurse, chuckles at the computer slang she hears me use. One of her favorite terms is dogfooding. Both the origins of the term dogfooding and the benefits are quite interesting. Nothing says, "fix this problem now!" louder than running
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:26 PM

Micro Focus COBOL and TFS

Doug Neumann, one of our program managers for TFS, had a chance to do a keynote at Micro Focus World in Orlando earlier this month. For those of you not familiar with Micro Focus , they sell a set of tools for COBOL development. While preparing for the
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Friday, April 27, 2007 10:09 AM

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Today (4/27/2007)

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 in the Visual
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Friday, April 20, 2007 11:52 PM

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Prerelease Available On Codeplex

Just released (or should I say, prereleased) tonight on Codeplex, the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit (the toolkit) Prerelease. See here . We've be working on hard on this toolkit to make availalbe the best practices we have learned from migrating
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