July 2008 - Posts

Rangers ship SQL load testing tool
The Team System Rangers have shipped again!  This time they’re have built on the success of the WCF Load Testing Tool and have applied that same approach to SQL.  You can find this tool on our Codeplex site: SQL Load Test . Here are the details Read More...
Posted 13 July 08 03:37 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Using Team System for SharePoint development
From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it provides an easy way to share information, facilitate collaboration, manage content, and implement workflow within enterprises.  We use it daily here Read More...
Posted 13 July 08 03:25 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance
Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now.  Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 04:06 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Case studies galore!
Sometimes I get so heads down in the business of shipping our next version that I forget for a moment about customers using the current version.  Fortunately, there are plenty of folks around me who work directly with customers on a regular basis Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 03:39 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Welcome Grant!
Grant Holliday , a former Team System MVP, recently joined our team focused on adoption of TFS internal to Microsoft.  Since he’s a veteran TFS user, he hit the ground running and now is a voracious force on the internal support aliases.  I’m Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:47 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Team System community update posted
Chuck Sterling , our Team System community lead, has posted a copy of his monthly update on community activities to his blog.  In the past, these updates have been only for internal consumption but, at my behest, he posted the most recent update Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:33 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Localized hotfix pages now available
We have hit another milestone on our journey to improve our process around delivering hotfixes to customers.  Now, not only will the most commonly requested hotfixes be available for download in English, but in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 03:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Cameron’s back
Cameron Skinner has recently reappeared on the blogging scene and he’s on fire!  Check out a couple of his most recent posts: New role running the VSTS Architecture Edition team DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling I’d certainly recommend subscribing to Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 03:10 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Tools for Agility - A white paper by Kent Beck
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , a product manager on our team, recently worked with Kent Beck to publish a great white paper on tooling for the agile team. The section on transparency really resonated with me especially this passage: A transparent team can more Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:57 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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PDC2008
As you may have heard, registration is now open for the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference happening in October! PDC2008 is going to be packed with all of the latest information about the future of the Microsoft development platform. For Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Upcoming APLN Agile Leadership Conference
The next leadership summit for the Agile Project Leadership network (APLN) is scheduled to be held in Seattle a couple weeks from now on July 17th and 18th.  I’ve been invited to be part of their panel discussing “Leading the Agile Enterprise” which Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:25 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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