March 2008 - Posts

Update on DevDiv dogfooding of TFS
Matt Gertz, Developer Division's manager responsible for our internal development tactics and process, recently posted an article covering the broad post-VS2008 efforts to more broadly adopt TFS within DevDiv for future product development. As regular Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 08:31 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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New Team System Blogger: Stephanie Saad
I have been working with Stephanie for several years now and so I was super excited tickled to see that she's recently started blogging . Trust me when I say that when Steph talks, people listen. I, for one, have added her to my short list of blogs that Read More...
Posted 27 March 08 07:45 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - now in Russian
Folks in our Ukrainian subsidiary recently completed the translation effort for the wildly popular Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server . I'm not sure I have a strong Russian speaking following, but just in case, please take a look: Read More...
Posted 27 March 08 02:45 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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Requirements Management with Team System whitepaper published
Lori Lamkin, the Product Unit Manager for TFS work item tracking and project management, has recently published a whitepaper on Requirements Management. It covered how Team System supports various Requirement Management activities today, and how your Read More...
Posted 26 March 08 12:49 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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More Team System "Rosario" specs available for review
In November of last year, we started sharing a selection of the specs written for Team System "Rosario" features. At the time, we had just two specs available but the response from the community was very encouraging. As I predicted at the time, this sort Read More...
Posted 26 March 08 12:36 by jeffbe | 9 Comments   
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84,248 Ads per second!
I think that the Load Testing capabilities within Team System Test Edition and the Load Test Agent are really still just waiting to be discovered by the majority of our users. When they do, they're in for a very big surprise. As an example of what these Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 06:30 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Join me at our next Team System Chat
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, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 03:17 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Internal usage stats for Team Foundation Server
Joe Schwetz, the group manager of our TFS Solution Provider team, publishes a monthly report which updates us on the internal adoption of Team Foundation Server across the company. You've heard from me before about our internal dogfooding of TFS within Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 02:54 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Channel 9 video: Project management with TFS
Brian Keller stopped by my office recently and we chatted for a while about how we manage our projects using TFS. Since we hear a lot from customers that are curious about how we dogfood our product we decided to post the recording on Channel 9. Take Read More...
Posted 20 March 08 11:28 by jeffbe | 7 Comments   
Easing access to hotfixes
In our continued efforts to improve the availability of hotfixes for Visual Studio and the .NET framework, we've eliminated the registration requirement on the Connect site which contains our most commonly requested hotfixes . We're looking into more Read More...
Posted 20 March 08 03:08 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Teamprise 3.0 ships!
Congratulations to our friends at Teamprise , including the inimitable Martin Woodward , for their recent release of Teamprise 3.0 . If you're using TFS and want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse or need to run on a Mac or Linux, Read More...
Posted 19 March 08 03:04 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Licensing Team System editions for your build machine
David Yack , one of our MS Regional Directors and a .NET MVP, tells me there is considerable confusion around the licensing requirements for the software installed on Team System build machines. The best resource available for these sorts of questions Read More...
Posted 18 March 08 02:46 by jeffbe | 13 Comments   
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New TFS hosting service available
I just heard from Adam Galant that TeamDevCentral , a new TFS hosting service (the first in North America) is now available and ready for business! (The very first TFS hosting service was TFS Now! which is based in Australia). So, if you don't want to Read More...
Posted 11 March 08 07:11 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Project Server 2007 connector refreshed
I'm happy to announce that the Team System Rangers have just refreshed the Project Server 2007 to TFS connector that was originally released last year. This version has been made compatible with the recent release of TFS 2008. In addition, we've fixed Read More...
Posted 11 March 08 02:29 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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TFS install FAQ updated
Just read from Bryan Krieger that he's updated the forum post the Frequently Asked Questions related to installing TFS 2008. We've invested a lot of effort to ensure that the installation experience for TFS 2008 is vastly improved compared to TFS 2005. Read More...
Posted 09 March 08 04:48 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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TFS adoption survey results
Carl Rogers recently posted the results of an adoption survey he ran during TechEd EMEA last fall to understand adoption levels of TFS as well as how 'process' is viewed by teams. Some interesting things popped for me as I read through the results: Top Read More...
Posted 08 March 08 02:40 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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Interview with Mark Osborne on how we build Visual Studio
Here's an in depth look at how we built Visual Studio 2008 as told by one of our principal architects responsible for developer productivity. As you might imagine, trying to get a very large team like ours to successfully ship a high quality product on Read More...
Posted 08 March 08 02:23 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Check out Behind the Scenes
As part of the Defy All Challenges marketing campaign for Visual Studio, a score of us on the team (including myself) have been interviewed to tell a little bit about ourselves and what motivates us. As you might expect, they're all a bit quirky and fun Read More...
Posted 08 March 08 01:38 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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