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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:08 PM

Company uses Team System Database edition to tame workflow

An article on TheServerSide.NET recently highlighted Configuresoft's usage of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals and the benefits they realized by doing so. If you haven’t read it already, here are a couple quotes to whet your appetite:
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:53 PM

Upcoming Project Server Connector webcast

Brian Keller just announced an upcoming webcast entirely focused on the recently released TFS-Project Server Connector scheduled for September 17, 2007. Since we released the initial drop of the connector a little over a month ago, it's gotten quite a
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:44 AM

Hosted TFS available from Readify

Although Team Foundation Server 2005 was not explicitly designed to be hosted, the smart folks at Readify have recently announced that they've made it happen. It's pretty exciting stuff, especially for those folks that don't want to manage their own TFS
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:27 AM

Team System Web Access Power Tool released!

Brian's recently announced the availability of the the Team System Web Access Power Tool. We've been using it internally for the past 3-4 months and as with most dogfooding efforts, we've found and fixed a bunch of issues. I think you'll find this release
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Monday, July 30, 2007 5:45 PM

Upcoming Team System chat (August 1st)

Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product team – This Wednesday Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:29 PM

Watch our TechEd 2007 sessions

The Team System team and community delivered quite a few talks at TechEd 2007 last month and I'm happy to announce that the recordings of these sessions, demos and all, are now available on the web for your viewing enjoyment. Here's a quick listing: DEV347:
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:07 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available!

I'm sure there will be many more posts (from me and others) but I wanted to get the good word out quickly that Visual Studio Beta 2 is now available for download! It's been a long haul but I'm really excited about what we've achieved. I'm confident it's
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:56 PM

New branding for Team System 2008

Check out Rob's blog announcing the new branding for Team System 2008 . In it, he writes: Since we released Visual Studio 2005, we’ve heard from you that the capabilities of each of the team editions don’t always map to the way you define roles in your
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:01 PM

TFS adoption at Microsoft

Frequent readers of my blog know full well that we take TFS dogfooding very seriously here. In fact, just this month we're celebrating 3 years of using TFS within the Team System team...pretty amazing. As you might expect, usage is taking off in other
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:06 PM

Check out the new profiler features

Ian Huff has started a new blogging series on the new profiler features in Orcas. The profiler is one of the most powerful tools (and perhaps the least understood) in the Team Edition for Developers product. In his introduction, he writes: Even if you
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:00 PM

DataDude Service Release 1 is now available

Service Release 1 (SR1) for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available. It addresses numerous known code defects as well as providing support for Cross-database references Support is improved so that you can
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:51 PM

Database support survey - we need your input!

Brian Keller is taking a survey on which 3rd party database providers we should partner with for upcoming releases of our Database Professionals product: Survey: Which databases should Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals support? The
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:41 PM

Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support

As I announced earlier this year , we have provided guidance on how to configure TFS 2005 to work with the latest version of SharePoint known as WSS 3.0 . If you haven't tried out this updated version of SharePoint, you really should...it's much improved
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Monday, July 09, 2007 6:38 PM

Team System enables CMMI Certification (case study available)

Brian Keller has just posted information about a new case study highlighting a company that achieved CMMI certification by using Team System. He writes: We have just published a new case study which helps to underscore how Visual Studio Team System can
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Monday, July 02, 2007 5:48 PM

Team System testing videos available

Here's a great series of testing oriented videos for Team System hosted on the ASP.net site: #1 | Introduction to Unit Testing with Team System (10 minutes, 54 seconds) #2 | Introduction to Testing Web Applications with Team System (9 minutes, 43 seconds)
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