May 2007 - Posts

Performance testing guide
JD and his p&p team are on fire. In the space of two days last week, they released both the Beta1 of the TFS Guide and the Beta1 of the Performance Testing Guide . They both look great and are ready for your feedback to make them even better. JD writes Read More...
Posted 29 May 07 02:28 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Have you customized TFS?
I’m giving a talk at TechEd 2007 about customizing TFS. As part of that talk, I’d like to reference the real world experience of our users and I’m hoping you can help me here. So, if you or your customer has customized TFS in some interesting way, I’d Read More...
Posted 25 May 07 01:26 by jeffbe | 7 Comments   
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pre-release of Team Development with TFS now available
Yesterday we released our Beta 1 of Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide . It's our Microsoft playbook for TFS. This is our guide to help show you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It's a distillation of many Read More...
Posted 24 May 07 04:04 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Learning more about Team System
We recently received the following question from someone on our team: I have a customer who would like to clarify what exactly he’ll need to purchase in order to enable source control/bug tracking/testing scenarios within Visual Studio/Team Foundation Read More...
Posted 24 May 07 03:58 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Comparing performance reports
I can't believe I haven't seen this blog article before now...I just learned about it from the Profiling team today. Ian's done a great job of describing some new features in the Profiler that are now available with Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" beta Read More...
Posted 23 May 07 06:27 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Help us design the Build Notification Applet
As Jim Lamb points out, one of the improvements we'd like to make to our upcoming release of continuous integration support in Orcas is to provide a way to notify users about build events. He posts: Well, we've worked up an initial design for a notification Read More...
Posted 22 May 07 03:13 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Team System Orcas Beta feedback trickling in
I was happy to see Orcas Beta1 feedback from our Team System MVP and friend Willy-Peter yesterday. In his post he reviews: Code Analysis Class Modeling Code Coverage Code Metrics Profiling Continuous integration Version control Data warehouse SharePoint Read More...
Posted 22 May 07 03:01 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Team Architect's plans for Power Tools
Over the past year, we've been trying to release components to you out of band from our major release cycles in order to deliver move value to you earlier and to get your feedback before we integrate these features into the mainstream release. This comes Read More...
Posted 17 May 07 02:07 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Tell us about Beta1
Brian's asking folks about their reaction to Team System "Orcas" Beta1 : We released Orcas Beta 1 a few weeks ago now and I'm really surprised at how little feedback I've heard. I'm curious what's going on. Are people too busy to mess with it? Has releasing Read More...
Posted 10 May 07 06:57 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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MySpace uses Team System
At last week's MIX07 conference , our friends from MySpace talked about the technology they use to offer up one of the most popular personal networking websites in the world. The growth they've experienced over the past few years is remarkable and along Read More...
Posted 06 May 07 04:25 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Answering questions with the cube
I know I just posted about this , but as I was reading my mail, I ran across a conversation between an internal customer and Jimmy. I found the questions and the fact that we can answer most of them with cube to be of interest. Hope you agree: 1) List Read More...
Posted 05 May 07 02:10 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Pre-release of DBPro service release now available!
The DataDude team, aka the team that develops Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, has just published a preview of their first service release . Remember, they released their v1 product in December 2006 so they're following close behind Read More...
Posted 05 May 07 02:01 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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The TFS Cube revealed
Wow! I'll say it again...wow! Jimmy Li has just posted a fantastic blog post on understanding the TFS Cube complete with screenshots, demos and tips on how to best use the system. I use the cube day in and day out and even I learned new things so I'd Read More...
Posted 05 May 07 01:53 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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YATSCS: Yet Another Team System Case Study
These seem to be coming out of the woodwork...I just posted an announcement of three new ones earlier this week and now we have another one . This one's from the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development, and is indicative Read More...
Posted 03 May 07 04:43 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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All Orcas Beta1 downloads now available
I'm happy to announce that all of the Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" Beta1 downloads are now available. The VPC images were available a couple weeks ago but last night we finally got the self extracting installer images available for folks that want Read More...
Posted 03 May 07 02:01 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Motivating teams to engage with customers
Here’s good list of ideas from Josh on motivating folks to engage with customers. While this isn't typically a problem with the Team System team but it's good to keep reinforcing these messages, especially during crunch times. Also, any other ideas you’d Read More...
Posted 02 May 07 09:51 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Three more Team System case studies available
With three new case studies available, we bring the total number for Team System to five: New! KBC Bank used Microsoft Visual Studios Team System and Team Foundation Server to improve application-building methodologies, increase productivity, and accelerate Read More...
Posted 02 May 07 12:55 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Chicago .NET Users Group
My buddy Clark Sell has asked me to share with my readership that the next meeting of the Chicago .NET Users Group is coming up on May 9th and he'll be speaking at it. If you want to learn more, please take a look at his announcement : Join us each month Read More...
Posted 01 May 07 07:34 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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