July 2007 - Posts

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: Read More...
Posted 31 July 07 10:08 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 31 July 07 09:53 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 31 July 07 12:44 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 31 July 07 12:27 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 30 July 07 05:45 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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: Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 10:29 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 10:07 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 07:56 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 04:01 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 03:06 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 03:00 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 02:51 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 02:41 by jeffbe | 18 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 09 July 07 06:38 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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) Read More...
Posted 02 July 07 05:48 by jeffbe | 9 Comments   
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