November 2007 - Posts

Sharing Team System specs
One of the things that we quietly rolled out yesterday along with the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP is the program to share selected Team System specifications and get your feedback on them. We Read More...
Posted 29 November 07 09:54 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
November Rosario CTP now available!
I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images Read More...
Posted 28 November 07 05:11 by jeffbe | 32 Comments   
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Flow of Value - Sam's book "live"
I have the distinct privilege of sitting in the office next to Sam Guckenheimer, the author of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System . I really enjoy working with him and continually benefit from his unique perspective on software Read More...
Posted 24 November 07 01:29 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Standalone Team Explorer 2008 download available
For folks that need to install Team Explorer 2008, there's a separate download available here: Download Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008 Having the Team Explorer doesn't alleviate the need to also have a TFS Client Access License (CAL) except when using Read More...
Posted 24 November 07 12:59 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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TFS Times - new newsletter focused on all things TFS
Paul Hacker , one of our Team System MVPs , has started a great new newsletter entirely focused on TFS known as TFS Times . In the inaugural issue, he writes: ... I have always found it rather difficult to keep up with all of the information coming out Read More...
Posted 24 November 07 12:49 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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File a bug for free
One of the most common requests we've had with regard to TFS licensing, is to make it easier to license occasional users of the system to enter work items such as bugs, requests, requirements, etc. Up until now, anyone that even wanted to report a bug Read More...
Posted 24 November 07 12:30 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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VS2008 Demo and Training kit available
The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit has been updated for the RTM and has been released on the Microsoft.com Download Center for anyone to download and use. You can download the entire training kit from the download center here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397 Read More...
Posted 23 November 07 02:09 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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Answering VS / TFS 2008 installation questions
Brian wrote a detailed blog article addressing several common questions about obtaining and installing VS / TFS 2008. Please check it out and let us know if you have any remaining questions that aren't addressed there. Read More...
Posted 23 November 07 12:38 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 released!
I am pleased to announce that following right on the heels of Visual Studio 2008 release on Monday, we have just released Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 yesterday afternoon! The download can be found on Microsoft Download Center here . Aside from being the Read More...
Posted 22 November 07 01:44 by jeffbe | 8 Comments   
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December Team System chats
Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System group – December 5th Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, Read More...
Posted 22 November 07 01:39 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Watch me on Channel 9
As part of the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008, I had a chance to join Soma announcing the release on Channel 9. Check it out here: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=357748 . Read More...
Posted 19 November 07 05:22 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 ships!
What else can I say? The big day has arrived (read the official word here on Soma's blog ) and we're all very excited to let everyone know that all parts of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 product family are available today for download from MSDN . Read More...
Posted 19 November 07 05:15 by jeffbe | 43 Comments   
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TFS-to-TFS migration
As more and more people are using TFS, we have been hearing requests to help customers migrate Team Projects from one TFS server to another. Several scenarios are common including: moving a single project from one TFS server to another consolidating projects Read More...
Posted 16 November 07 03:34 by jeffbe | 6 Comments   
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Bulk edit work items with Team System Web Access
I learned something new today by reading Buck's blog . He's started an occasional series on our new Team System Web Access and I had no idea that it provides the ability to bulk edit work items . I guess I should have noticed it since we use TSWA internally Read More...
Posted 07 November 07 10:34 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Team System 2008 shipping soon
In case you're not an avid reader of Soma's blog (why not!?), I just wanted to make sure everyone heard that we're very close to shipping Team System 2008 and expect to make it available by the end of this month. This will include all of the team editions Read More...
Posted 07 November 07 10:33 by jeffbe | 10 Comments   
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TeamData and TeamBuild: together at last
I was happy to see this morning that Gert posted an article discussing the latest issue of CoDe Magazine which includes a very detailed article on using TeamData with TeamBuild to help automate the sometimes arcane process of building and deploying applications Read More...
Posted 07 November 07 10:21 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Windows Live Writer now available
I've been using prerelease versions of Windows Live Writer for a long time now and so it was good news to me when I read that they've gone live with their final version. It's free and super easy to use. I'm sure I don't use half the features that are Read More...
Posted 07 November 07 10:12 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Team System guidance published to MSDN
You've heard me talk before about the Team System guidance that the patterns & practices team has produced. It's quite popular with the folks that have discovered it but we still have trouble getting the word out. So, I'm happy to announce that it's Read More...
Posted 02 November 07 03:04 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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