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Now on Amazon: Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Our patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server book is now available on Amazon. Buy the Book on Amazon Download the PDF Browse the HTML
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Videos: Security, Performance Testing, and Visual Studio Team System
We posted our ASP.NET 2.0 security videos , performance testing videos , and Visual Studio Team System videos to the MSDN library. Video Index Video Index ASP.NET 2.0 Security Videos Keith Brown explains the mechanics behind some common input and data
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TFS Guide: A Top Download on CodePlex
It was a nice surprise to see that yesterday our patterns & practices Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide was among the top downloads on CodePlex . The HMTL version of the guide is available on MSDN at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb668991.aspx.
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Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide
You can now find our patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server guide on MSDN in HTML. It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex. CodePlex was our channel for agile release. Once we baked the guidance, we ported
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How To: Create a “Hello World” WCF Service Using Visual Studio
Here's a quick step through of using WCF in Visual Studio 2005. In this case I used a local machine, running Windows 2003, for the service and the client. There's lot of possible paths, and this is just one path through. I focused on "Hello World" to
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Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server
Our Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server are available on CodePlex. We have Scenario Frames for the following: Build Project Management Reporting Source Control We use scenario frames for several things: Mapping out the problem space Performing
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New Release: patterns & practices Team Development with Team Foundation Server Guide
Today we release the final version of our patterns & practices: Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server . It's our Microsoft playbook for Team Foundation Server. It shows you how to make the most of the Team Foundation Server. It's
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VSTS Guidance Projects Roundup
Here's a quick rundown of our patterns & practices VSTS related Guidance projects. It's a combination of online knowledge bases, guides, video-based guidance and a community Wiki for public participation. We're using CodePlex for agile release, before
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TFS Guide Beta 1 is Available
Today we released our Beta 1 of Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide . It's our Microsoft playbook for TFS. This is our guide to help show you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It's a distillation of many lessons
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Guidance on Managing Source Control Dependencies in Team System Now Available
Our Explained: Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System is now available. I've seen several questions around handling source control dependencies so hopefully this guidance will help you spiral down on solutions that work for
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How To Reference Web Services and Databases During Development
One technique for pointing your Web services and database references to alternate locations during development is to use a user.config file. Although you could change your app.config references directly, using a level of indirection keeps your production
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Team Foundation Source Control Guidelines Now Available
Our Team Foundation Source Control Guidelines are now available. You can read the Team Foundation Source Control Guidelines online in HTML or you can download the Team Foundation Source Control Guidelines in PDF . The guidelines are part of our patterns
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Downloads Now Available for Visual Studio Team System Guidance
We have a Downloads Index for Visual Studio Team System Guidance in our patterns & practices Visual Studio Team System Guidance Project . You can now download various types of guidance including our Explained, Guidelines, How Tos, Practices at a Glance,
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New Video: How To - Personalize Team System Guidance with Guidance Explorer
If you are a hunter and gatherer of guidance, you'll want Guidance Explorer . Watch Video: How To - Personalize Team System Guidance with Guidance Explorer to see how you can use Guidance Explorer to build a custom collection of guidance from our Visual
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New Video: What Is - Branching
We just added Video: What Is - Branching to our Visual Studio Team System Guidance Project . Watch this video to see how branching may impact your strategy when using Team Foundation Server source control.
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