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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...
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...
New case study for Team Foundation & Teamprise
We just released a joint case study based on the success that Thomson Reuters has had using Team Foundation Server in conjunction with Teamprise in order to adopt Team System in a mixed development shop.  Since the reality of many development teams Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 07:11 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Check out good stuff from TechEd 2008
This was a good week for Team System at TechEd 2008 in Orlando.  I would recommend that you check out the TechEd 2008 Online site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/default.aspx ) to learn about much of what was covered.  In particular, Read More...
Radio TFS
After getting my first Zune in March for my birthday, I’ve really enjoyed getting familiar with the world of podcasting…it’s a great way to extend my learning and entertainment in to my exercise, commuting and yard work time.  As it turns out that Read More...
Check out Brian the Build Bunny
Martin Woodward , one of our many Team System MVPs, just recently posted a blog article about a project he’s been working on for some time now.  Brian is actually a dedicated Nabaztag smart rabbit which reacts to the details of check-ins and builds.  Read More...
Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper now available
Kevin Kelly, a Team System Product Manager, announced today that at long last the Team System 2008 licensing white paper has been published.  I’ve lost track of the number of people who have asked about this important update so I’m sure there are Read More...
More Rosario specs available
While I hope many of you are now or soon to be actively using Visual Studio Team System 2008, we’re hard at work with developing our next release known as Rosario.  We’ve been publishing specs for some of the new features  and just refreshed Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 02:18 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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March 2008 TFS Power Tools now available
Check out Brian Harry’s post on the latest release of the increasingly popular (and increasingly valuable), TFS Power Tools. As you can probably tell by the name, we’ve been working on this release for a bit and ran into a few delays along the way.  Read More...
Posted 21 April 08 07:35 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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How DevDiv uses TFS
Gregg Boer, a program manager on the TFS work item tracking team has started a series of posts outlining in good detail how we used TFS work item tracking within Developer Division to manage the Visual Studio 2008 project.  Based on the popularity Read More...
April 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” April 2008 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from Read More...
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...
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...
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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