March 2007 - Posts

Team System Roadmap
In addition to the announcement of today's devBiz acquisition, we have publicly published a roadmap for Visual Studio Team System. We’ve had lots of requests for this information from you, our customers, and our sales field and we’re now ready to publicly Read More...
Posted 26 March 07 08:16 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft acquires TeamPlain
TeamPlain is a web front end for VSTS that enables users to access the majority of TFS functionality from within a Web browser. TeamPlain gives VSTS a new avenue to reach a broader array of people within the development team who don’t use Visual Studio Read More...
Posted 26 March 07 05:19 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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VSTS Guidance project update
I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the VSTS Guidance project update recently posted by JD and the p&p team. It’s impressive! We embarked on this project after hearing from our customers that one of their top needs was more guidance on Read More...
Posted 26 March 07 02:11 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Branching guidance now available
I'm extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server. This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product team and members of our "Ranger" program who are focused on accelerating adoption of V1. While Read More...
Posted 21 March 07 02:28 by jeffbe | 11 Comments   
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Happy Anniversary TFS!
It's been exactly 1 year since we released the golden version of Team Foundation Server v1! This post by one of our MVPs reminded me of the occasion. I found that Babelfish did a fine job translating the webpage (although it translated 'server' to 'waiter' Read More...
Posted 17 March 07 01:35 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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new Chicago area Team System user group
I just received this invitation to join a new Chicago area Team System user group. I'm busy that night (and will be 2,078 miles away according to Live Search) but perhaps some of you will be closer and more available to attend: Date: April 11, 2007 Time: Read More...
Posted 14 March 07 02:31 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Managing Orcas Beta exit criteria by dogfooding TFS
I've written a few times about our usage of TFS while we develop newer versions of Visual Studio and TFS. It's one of my favorite topics so I'm excited about a recent update that we've made to our system to help us manage the end game of our beta release Read More...
Posted 05 March 07 06:57 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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One more goodie with the March CTP
There really is just so much in the recently released Visual Studio March CTP that it's frankly hard to keep track of it all. Todd King, from our Static Analysis team, has recently posted about yet another important advancement from his team that's new Read More...
Posted 04 March 07 03:11 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Team System Guidance
J.D. Meier was recently telling me the way he distinguishes between product documentation and guidance...it's like the difference between the Owner's Manual and a Driver's guide. You need both but for different reasons. Traditionally, the product team Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 04:42 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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More goodness from March CTP
I mentioned some of the aspects of the Visual Studio March CTP in a recent post and here's another one to read about. Noah describes script debugging improvements in Orcas: We've made some significant improvements to script debugging! The VS script debugger Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 03:50 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Work item type rules
Sometimes I feel a little like I'm sitting at an information desk in a mall directing people to what they're looking for. People keep stopping by to ask questions so I assume it's helpful. Anyway, I was just reading Gregg's request for feedback on work Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 03:14 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Reporting from Visio?!
When I first read Ameya's new post regarding using Visio as a reporting tool for TFS, I thought he must have lost his mind. However, after watching his two videos and how easy it is to provide an alternative view on data flowing from the Team Foundation Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 02:58 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Check out this Vista gadget
Mario posted this week about a Vista gadget the Team Foundation team is working on. He writes: Today I am going to give you a sneak peek at our TFS Query Tracker gadget. Currently is in Alpha, if such state exists for a PowerTool, but we plan to give Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 02:40 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Check out March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas
Just a couple days ago we released the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. This represents a large percentage of the new features in Orcas and as such I'd recommend checking it out. We've released a VPC image of the bits (both for Visual Studio and Team Read More...
Posted 02 March 07 07:16 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Software Testers Deep Dive
We recently ran a bootcamp for some of our internal teams on the testing capabilities of Visual Studio Team System and used a bunch of blog articles already available on the web. Seems like this list might be useful for others so here you go...enjoy! Read More...
Posted 02 March 07 06:39 by jeffbe | 8 Comments   
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