Jeff Beehler's Blog : DSL Tools

Check out good stuff from TechEd 2008

jeffbe — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:44:38 GMT

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, you should check out the BillG keynote in which our very own Brian Harry demonstrated some exciting new features of Rosario (you can even read more about it here). In addition, you should watch the Team System panel when you can watch an interactive session with Brian, Gert Drapers, Neelesh Kamkolkar, Peter Provost, Habib Heydarian and Norman Guadagno.

Enjoy!

Please provide feedback on Architecture edition

jeffbe — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:21:28 GMT

We're currently conducting a survey on the usage patterns for Visual Studio Team System Architecture edition and would appreciate your thoughts and feedback. This will help us understand what works for you today and what needs to be improved moving forward. The survey won't take very long to complete but it will help us make some tradeoffs as we complete work on Rosario and future products.

Start the survey here.

Many thanks for your continued support and feedback.

Aggregating popular Team System blogs

jeffbe — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:02:53 GMT

Blogs have quickly become a primary means for the Team System team to communicate with our community and as a result we have dozens and dozens of valuable blogs from our team. Because of this distributed approach, it’s hard for our customers to navigate and track all of the blogs related to various topics. We’ve also heard from many customers that they tire of the endless cross posts between our blogs…the echo can sometimes be deafening.

To help us dampen the echo and to provide one place for customers to go to learn about their favorite portions of the product, we are now aggregating the best Team System blog articles on each of the role specific Team Centers. As we learn more about how this approach works (and doesn’t work) for us and our customers, we’ll evolve this program. To get us started, I have identified key posts and posters to help us kick off this program. Please take a look, subscribe to your favorite feeds and let us know if this help you to stay in touch with us better.

Thanks!

jeff

Team System (rss)

Architect (rss)

VSArch

Developer (rss)

Test (rss)

Database (rss)

TFS (rss)

Project Manager (rss)

Team_WIT_Tools

Tell us about Beta1

jeffbe — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:57:00 GMT

Brian's asking folks about their reaction to Team System "Orcas" Beta1:

We released Orcas Beta 1 a few weeks ago now and I'm really surprised at how little feedback I've heard. I'm curious what's going on. Are people too busy to mess with it? Has releasing all of the CTPs ahead of time taken the excitment out of playing with the Beta? Is it so unbelievably good that you are stunned into silence? Are you just waiting for Beta 2?

Take a look and let us know what you think. We look forward to hearing from you!

All Orcas Beta1 downloads now available

jeffbe — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:01:10 GMT

I'm happy to announce that all of the Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" Beta1 downloads are now available. The VPC images were available a couple weeks ago but last night we finally got the self extracting installer images available for folks that want to install the product themselves on their own machines. As I've said in previous posts, Orcas Beta1 is the best first beta release we've issued in a long time...we're using parts of it internally and I have no complaints so far.

So, please take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We're currently in the process of testing early Beta2 builds and fixing the bugs we've found so your timely feedback will certainly help us ensure that Beta2 is even better. Please let us know what you think through Connect or leave a comment here...we're really eager to hear from you.

Another chat - by popular demand

jeffbe — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:43:36 GMT

Based on the feedback that we've received on our upcoming chat, we decided to add another session later in the day to accommodate folks in other timezones. Of course it'll be on Saturday in many timezones around the world so hopefully folks will still be able to join us. Here are the two times we'll be chatting:

Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones
Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones

In the future, we'll schedule our chats on days other than Fridays to avoid running into the weekend for those of you ahead of us.

New Team Architect blog available

jeffbe — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:37:00 GMT

As I've mentioned before, I watch over the community efforts within the Team System team. As part of that we monitor our blogging activity to ensure that we've got a good flow of information reaching the community on a regular basis. At the moment we do that by watching 25 representative blogs that span the full spectrum of the product and ensuring that they're seeing sufficient activity. One area that's been recently lacking recently is activity around our Team Architect product. In response to that, Suhail Dutta has started up a new blog exclusively focused on this portion of the product and Mark Groves has provided the inaugural post outlining what you'll find in Orcas Beta 1 from his team including:

Top-down System Design
Conform to WSDL
Web Application Projects
Architectural Roles

Take a look and let us know what you think!